AI Makes Us Peasants

Amidst all the speculation about AI solving problems great and small (while potentially destroying all of humanity in the process), we’ve lost sight of what it’s already doing to our work and lives. It’s remaking us into peasants. I’m thinking

AI Testing = “What, Me Worry?”

OpenAI has decided to cut testing of its newest, most powerful AI models from months to only a few days and will start rolling out one of them, called “o3,” sometime this week. Testing assesses LLMs’ vulnerabilities to do biased

AI vs. Humanity: Game Over

Two recent research papers on the near-future of AI development use 216 pages of often impenetrable blather to tell us something that could be summarized in two words: We’re screwed. First, Google’s DeepMind published “An Approach to Technical AGI Safety

AI Free From Ideological Bias?

President Trump signed an order in late January to rescind a requirement that government avoid using AI tools that “unfairly discriminate” based on race or other attributes, and that developers disclose their most potent models to government regulators before unleashing

AI In Education: Just Say No

Illinois state legislators are looking to create rules for using AI in education and other public service areas, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune last week. I can make it easy for them: Just say no. Of course,

In Defense of AI-Generated Fiction?

Award-winning writer Jeanette Winterson thinks that an AI model can write good fiction and that we need more of it. In her essay, in The Guardian last week, she opines about a short story about grief written by a model

AI Replacing People? What Could Go Wrong?

We are going to see our government run by smart machines long before businesses do the same, and it looks like the transformation will be ugly. Elon Musk’s DOGE squads aren’t waiting for management consultants to draft complicated slide presentations