Essays
The Head Fake of AI Regulation
Meetings, pronouncements, and then…nothing, except a phenomenon that will continue to evolve and grow without us doing much of anything about it.
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Meet The New AI Boss
What happens if that otherwise perfectly operating AI reaches conclusions and voice opinions that are no more objectively true than the informed judgments of those elites we so readily threw in the garbage years ago (or the inanity of crowdsourced information that replaced them)?
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Prove You’re Not An AI
If they do get put into general use, they will never be used consistently. Some folks will neglect to comply or fail to qualify. Some computers will do a good enough job to get them, perhaps with the aid of human accomplices. Just think of the the complexities and nuisance people already experience trying to resolve existing online identity problems, credit card thefts, and medical bill issues. PHCs could make us look back fondly on them.
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AI’s Latest Hack: Biocomputing
We can’t explain the how, where, or why of consciousness in fully-formed human beings. So, even if the clumps of brain matter are operating as simple logic gates, who’s to say that some subjective sense of “maybe” might emerge in them along the way?
Essays
Don’t Fall In Love With Your AI
Centuries of empirical data on drug use proves that making AI better and easier to use is going to get it used more often and make it harder to stop using. There’s no need for “continued investigation.” A ChatGPT that listens and talks like your new best friend has been designed to be addictive. Dependence isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
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Bias In AI
The conversation about AI is a battle of biases, and its winners are determined by the size of their megaphones and the time of day.
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AIs At The Next Office Party
How can you make sure your new AI worker will drink the company Kool-Aid like the human employee it replaced did?An HR software company has th e answer: Creating profiles for AI workers in its management platform so that employers can track things like performance, productivity, and suitability for promotion.
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Get Ready For The AI Underworld
There’ll be lots of money to be made by AI developers trying to protect people, businesses, and institutions from the dangers of their creations. And that, after all, is the point of why they’re giving us AI in the first place.
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The AI Revolution Is A Boiling Frog
I think we’ll experience the roll out of AI as a similar set of implementations at work and in our homes. The media and VC-fueled startups might still talk about step-changes, like AGI, but that won’t change the substance, speed, or inevitability of the underlying process.
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AI Is A Religion, Not A Technology
We’re missing the point if all we see is a technology that helps us write things or find better deals on shoe prices or, at the other extreme, might fix climate change or annihilate humanity.