What follows is a remarkable example of what I consider real scientific exploration assisted by Anthropic’s Claude 2 AI. This interface allows uploading documents for feedback in the conversation. …

What follows is a profoundly insightful conversation with Claude 2, Anthropic’s latest and greatest LLM AI. This conversation follows topics I’ve been exploring both intellectually, spiritually and psychedelically for a few decades now. My books, available on Amazon, the 2014 Eco, Ego, Eros, and 2017 Mind, World, God, delve deep…

Prof. Roman Yampolskiy and I argue in this Nautilus essay that the “control problem” of AI is fundamentally unsolvable [This essay first appeared at Nautilus here] If all goes well, human history is just beginning. … if we could learn to reach out further into the cosmos, we could have…

This is my essay on AI safety issues from Scientific American from May 2023 Artificial intelligence algorithms will soon reach a point of rapid self-improvement that threatens our ability to control them and presents a great potential risk to humanity. “The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than…

Talk behind me, I can relax and enjoy Italy a little I’ve been at the Science of Consciousness conference in Taormina, Italy, all week. I had the honor of being a plenary speaker this year and felt pretty nervous going into it, particularly because it was on Friday, toward the…

A plan for human survival in the age of AI #noAIwasused We are at the beginning of the era of artificial general intelligence (AGI) but this beginning phase may be very short if AI models developed now or in the near future are capable of improving themselves. …

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…