‘Superintelligence,’ Ten Years On AI catastrophe is easy to imagine, but a lot has to go consistently and infallibly wrong for the doom theory to pan out. Sean Welsh 2 Jul 2024 · 12 min read
The Digital Mirror of Narcissus Technology steers my life along tracks chosen for my digital double, not for me. But this proxy personalisation wouldn’t work at all if I didn’t play my part. Timandra Harkness 23 May 2024 · 11 min read
ChatGPT’s Moral Compass We hear much talk of “aligning AI with human values” but relatively little delineation of what these values are. Sean Welsh 20 May 2024 · 15 min read
Google and the Gemini Debacle This cock-up was not caused by a bug that went unnoticed; it was deliberately engineered. Toadworrier 18 Mar 2024 · 9 min read
Robots, Rats and Hoverchairs: Three Dystopian AI Fantasies Human beings need meaning, and a life in which all one’s needs were met by external agents would fail to provide it. Stewart Slater 5 Dec 2023 · 9 min read
Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art. Julia Friedman 3 Nov 2023 · 8 min read
Old Model, New Tricks On the 85th anniversary of his death, a look back at the legacy of Nikolai Kondratiev and its implications for the coming age of GenAI. Elliot Leavy 26 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
AIs Will Be Our Mind Children We must free our artificial descendants to adapt to their new worlds and choose what they will become. Robin Hanson 6 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
AI: Let’s Worry About the Right Things There are valid concerns and there are unfounded fears. Let us separate the two. Brendan Craig 12 May 2023 · 13 min read
ChatGPT, Lobster Gizzards, and Intelligence Chat knows more, gizzards are more complex, and you’re more intelligent. Frederick R. Prete 1 May 2023 · 10 min read
The Horseless Comanche The new world of AI promises great peril but also great potential. Aidan Harte 20 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
What Are Reasonable AI Fears? Although there are some valid concerns, an AI moratorium would be misguided. Robin Hanson 14 Apr 2023 · 13 min read
ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them. Sean Welsh 26 Jan 2023 · 12 min read
The Case Against the Case Against AI AI only knows what is in the data. The unfortunate use of the term “learning” is a simple, but potent, source of confusion and apprehension. Peter L. Levin 7 Jan 2022 · 9 min read
The Peculiar Economics of 3D Printing Most new technologies, when they are launched, arrive with a lot of hype. While 3D printing fits the business model for customized products, it is not yet cost effective in a commercial manufacturing sector which requires mass production. Randall Mayes 21 Dec 2021 · 10 min read
