AI - Quillette

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

A review of The Age of AI and Our Human Future [https://amzn.to/335RObV] by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher. Little, Brown and Company, 272 pages (November, 2021). Potential bridges across the menacing chasm of incompatible ideas are being demolished by a generation of wannabe autocrats

Peter L. Levin

7 Jan 2022 · 8 min read