My Friend the Chatbot Virtual friends are already good enough to engage us and satisfy some of our appetites. They are going to get better, spread into more corners of our lives, and settle in. Rob Brooks 26 Nov 2024 · 10 min read
‘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
