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Developing AI Makes Developing Nukes Look Harmless

Friday, December 29, 2023 at 6:21 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

AI: the final human-made disaster? MAGA Republicans seem fixated on Trump’s quest to morph American democracy into an autocracy. They seem possessed of morbid curiosity or fatalism – the dangers a reelected Trump portends be damned. In a similar vein, the rest of us seem hell-bent on using fossil fuels until we destroy our planet. We seem possessed of morbid indifference or fatalism… Read more.

Firing Altman at OpenAI Exposed Infighting That Portends Our Doom

Monday, November 20, 2023 at 2:27 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Firing Altman at OpenAI Two weeks ago, I published “AI: Sowing the Seeds of Our Own Extinction.” I delineated why AI poses existential dangers that make nuclear bombs look like stink bombs. But even I had no idea that the mad geniuses developing AI were already engaged in an existential battle. That battle led to the summary and sensational firing of OpenAI… Read more.