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The Failure Of Markets To Price AI
The true impacts of AI are too big and complicated, so those costs are simply left out of the value calculations for companies promoting the tech.
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AI Deepfakes Are A Distinction Without A Difference
We already lie to one another quite effectively. AI represents far bigger challenges, like destroying our way of life and then the planet.
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The Robot Police
AI are going beyond their expected abilities to learn from existing data and inventing new ways to assess and apply it. Only they haven’t been coded to do it.
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Another Useless Warning About AI Risk
Warnings about AI risk are hypocritical, delusional, or disingenuous. Or all three.
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AI As Frankenstein’s Monster
The parallels between Mary Shelley’s fictional AI inventor and the real ones today are shocking and illustrative.
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Don’t Look, But AI Is Already Transforming The World
Behind the headlines about AI makers asking government to restrain them from destroying the world, their products are already doing it. I get the existential risk that someday, some AI could be so powerful that it could for some reason decide to take over or annihilate humanity. I’ve seen the Read more…
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AI Making Music For AI
Robots have been making music for a long time. Maybe advanced AI is a hint that people need to get back into the mix?
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Screenwriters Face Their Napster Moment
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced last week that its members would go on strike because they get less work and pay producing content for more shows that air on streaming services. They also want to make sure AI doesn’t take their jobs away completely. Streaming shows are bad Read more…
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ChatGPT Threatens High-Paying Jobs
Turns out that the folks making (and making $)from AI will be among the first who lose their jobs because of it. Sounds fair to me.
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The Charade Of Industry-Led AI Regulation
Focusing on the regulatory conversation about privacy and fairness is a purposeful effort to avoid facing the bigger questions we should be asking about AI.