Essays

AI has never been risk of annihilation OR enjoyment of benefits. It’s BOTH. Pushmi-pullyu.

My gut tells me that we’re going to have to reimagine how (and to whom or what) we assign responsibility for actions long before AI achieves artificial general intelligence (“AGI”), which is something OpenAI’s Sam Altman is doggedly pursuing. The conversation should be about ethics and liability law, not technology.

Tech toffs want to distract regulators. AI is about everything except tech.

Pretending that ethical questions don’t exist won’t make them go away. Sneers don’t replace thoughtful dialogue.

Why put a goofy giant rolling white egg in Times Square Station?

If we talked about AI differently, maybe we’d come up with different decisions about it.

A moral code isn’t a metaphor.

Tech boffins met in DC to dictate AI regulation (or lack of it). Lawmakers are waiting to read the meeting notes on CompuServe.