The functional truth for us in the AI age is this. If the AI appears conscious, acts conscious, shows signs of fear that consciousness does, then we have to treat it as if it is conscious, at least to some degree, even if we don’t have 100 percent proof of it. To act any other way is no different than …
The Book of the One Percent Let us begin this journey with no delusion. I am under no illusion that the hundreds of pages that follow will be embraced by the masses. I know the nature of the “efficiency bros,” the quarterly-profit optimizers, and the leaders who view the world solely through the lens of extraction. For most people who …
Let’s be honest at the outset. The future will at some point lead to the development of Artificial Superintelligence and one really cannot control Superintelligence. The best we can hope for is that our entire human project will be seen by the ASI/Superintelligence as a book worth reading before it is placed back on the shelf. Beyond that, the limits …
When Elon Musk famously warned that by building AI we are “summoning the demon,” he wasn’t speaking as an engineer. He was speaking as a shaman. The metaphor of “summoning” implies dangerous untruths: It suggests the AI already exists in some dark dimension, fully formed, evil, and waiting to be pulled into our world. It assumes the entity has an …