The human era is ending
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/08/the-end-of-the-human-era
Artificial intelligence poses a profound challenge to our humanness.
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/08/the-end-of-the-human-era
Artificial intelligence poses a profound challenge to our humanness.
How to Prevent an AI Catastrophe
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/how-prevent-ai-catastrophe-artificial-intelligence
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/how-prevent-ai-catastrophe-artificial-intelligence
We Blew It with the Internet. Let’s Not Blow It with A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/opinion/artificial-intelligence-thinking-minds-concentration.html
Ezra Klein notes:
Now imagine I told you that I was going to invent a sinister tool (perhaps, while telling you this, I would cackle). As people used it, their attention spans would degrade, as the tool would constantly shift their focus, weakening their powers of concentration and contemplation. This tool would show people whatever it is they found most difficult to look away from — which would often be what was most threatening about the world, from the worst ideas of their political opponents to the deep injustices of their society. It would fit in their pockets and glow on their night stands and never truly be quiet; there would never be a moment when people could be free of the sense that the pile of messages and warnings and tasks needed to be checked.
Ezra Klein notes:
Now imagine I told you that I was going to invent a sinister tool (perhaps, while telling you this, I would cackle). As people used it, their attention spans would degrade, as the tool would constantly shift their focus, weakening their powers of concentration and contemplation. This tool would show people whatever it is they found most difficult to look away from — which would often be what was most threatening about the world, from the worst ideas of their political opponents to the deep injustices of their society. It would fit in their pockets and glow on their night stands and never truly be quiet; there would never be a moment when people could be free of the sense that the pile of messages and warnings and tasks needed to be checked.