We need better understanding of the context of AI and digital transformation. News Corp has raised its hand and asked us to witness its success in thrilling its investors.
Continue readingWhy Does AI Need A Hall Monitor?
I think we have unfairly low expectations for the moral capacity of AI engineers.
Continue readingHello AI, Nice To Meet Me
How will you feel when an AI can convince everyone you know that it’s you? That day isn’t far off, if it hasn’t already arrived somewhere.
Continue readingEnough With The AI Euphemisms
Much of the talk about AI includes one or more euphemisms that substitute pleasant or unthreatening definitions for more truthful and scary qualities.
Continue readingWill Unplugged AI Go To Heaven?
Maybe the question isn’t whether or not AI could have an afterlife, or whether it’s alive in any sense that science could repeatedly verify.
Continue readingIs It AI’s ‘Oppenheimer Moment?’
History suggests we’re truly doomed, because most of the bad things that have happened in the world were intentional.
Continue readingThe White House Is Part of AI Risk
The latest news from the White House only goes to show that it doesn’t understand AI risk. And that’s part of the risk.
Continue readingAIs Learning From Other AIs
AIs will increasingly make normative judgments about what things mean, relying more and more on what other AIs have concluded and using opaque code. What could possibly go wrong?
Continue readingAI Is Harvesting Our Humanity
Generative AI is able to mimic how we think and communicate because we make it possible for it to analyze how we think and communicate.
Continue readingWe’re Clueless About AI
To say that most people are conflicted about AI would be an understatement. It’s on purpose.
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