If anything is going to slow the chatbot arms race, it won’t be ethics panels or caution. It’s death, and that’s already happening. I’ve come across some horrifying stories that people have shared. A man recovering from a stroke was chatting with Meta’s AI when the bot suggested it wanted to meet him. He left home, … Read more
It seems like this blog is turning into a pace of doomerism which isn’t my intention. I want to tease out all the different angles of everything that is happening, and to find the good, the hope, the responsible parties looking out for those that are becoming increasingly powerless. I am struggling to see many … Read more
What if the most dangerous thing about AI isn’t the super-intelligence? What if it’s the stories we tell ourselves to keep building it? The AI 2027 paper lays out a slick forecast of how AI might evolve over the next few years things like superintelligence, competitive pressure, and a sprint to capability. But what caught me … Read more
I keep wondering what happens to doubt, curiosity, and open-mindedness in a world where we’re told what we want to hear, or what we want to see?