A plan for human survival in the age of AI #noAIwasused It is possible, and perhaps even likely, that we are on the cusp of a radical inflationary period in intelligence. This intelligence will be machine-based, what is commonly called “artificial intelligence” or AI. We are at the beginning of…

This post continues my series looking at the dangers of AI as we are on the cusp of transitioning to artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI), which I consider interchangeable terms. Computronium is a term coined by Ray Kurzweil that describes any matter converted into computing hardware. Kurzweil…

I am happy that Sen Chuck Schumer (Senate Majority Leader) seems to get the importance of AI and the need to regulate it. He’s leading a congressional process to draft new legislation. Schumer is quoted in this NPR article: “Look, it’s probably the most important issue facing our country, our…

Incredible news: my favorite philosopher, and sometimes fellow traveler of ideas, Charles Eisenstein, has teamed up with Bobby Kennedy Jr. in his presidential campaign. I’ve already come out in support of Kennedy’s campaign as I believe he is the leader we need at this tense moment in history. This news…

AI is now becoming a regular — and noticeable — everyday feature of our lives. Freely, Charles Eisenstein and I talk through the issues in this trialogue, discussing many of the possible upsides of AI along with the increasingly alarming downsides. …

I’ve written a number of pieces recently on AI, which has become a major global story since late 2022 due to the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI. It’s the first really impressive “chatbot” because of its mastery of human and other languages, and because of its rapid improvement. …

This is one possible (plausible?) future as I see it, unfolding probably by 2030–2035, unless we get very serious and very soon about preventing this kind of scenario from actually happening. 1. The Golden Age. Shiny new toys abound. Amazing worlds are created by AI on demand, for you, to…

ChatGPT wrote this modern-day fable Once upon a time, in a dense forest, there was a curious young girl named Pandora. One day, while exploring the forest, she came across a small, intricately decorated box with the words “Open Me” written on the top. …

We (Jonathan Schooler, Marissa Ericson and myself) wrote a paper, published in the peer-reviewed journal Perspectives in Psychological Science, in early 2022, that provides a comprehensive framework for examining whether a given object is consciousness or not. It’s called “Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? …