Oxford’s Wooldridge “glorified spreadsheets” speech shows he understands AI isn’t what people think it is, but his institutional position requires him to frame the problem as a future discrete risk rather than admit a present constant reality. The race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters … Continue reading The Hindenburg of AI Crashes Every Day, and Nobody Cares
Stephen Miller, the grandson of refugees who fled Russian xenophobia, is now the chief architect of a xenophobia policy built on the explicit premise that certain peoples are permanently unassimilable. By his own logic, it was a mistake for his family to be allowed into the United States, and he himself should be jailed immediately. … Continue reading Stephen Miller Calls For His Own Detention and Deportation
The speed of American democracy failure seems apropos for the man who repeatedly went bankrupt faster than anyone in history, and the playbook feels familiar. Once he established that norms don’t constrain him, and he fatigued the accountability systems, the violations naturally escalated and expanded rapidly. “Grab’em by the pussy” was his subtext, yet actual … Continue reading Social Media Putsch: Investigating Trump’s Rape of Democracy
Let me begin by trying to explain how Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1966 chatbot was designed from the start to expose our dangerous tendency to trust machines. No, really. ELIZA, the first modern “chatbot” created ever, was built to demonstrate the dangers and help people reject the concept. Instead, however, his appeal to humanity using logic and … Continue reading Anthropic Claude Weaponizes Health Care in Direct Harm to Users