Technology is central to how the future will unfold—that’s undoubtedly true—but technology is not the point of the future, or what’s really at stake. We are.

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The coming wave is going to change the world. Ultimately, human beings may no longer be the primary planetary drivers, as we have become accustomed to being. We are going to live in an epoch when the majority of our daily interactions are not with other people but with AIs. This might sound intriguing or horrifying or absurd, but it is happening.

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Intelligence, life, raw power—these are not playthings and should be treated with the respect, care and control they deserve.

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Safety relies on things not failing, not getting into the wrong hands, forever.

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…ask not just what doing no harm means in an age of globe-spanning algorithms and edited genomes but how that can be enacted daily in what are often morally ambiguous circumstances.

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The more general a model, the more likely it is to pose a serious threat.

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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
Richard Freynman

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One of the issues with LLMs is that they still suffer from the hallucination problem, whereby they often confidently claim widely wrong information as accurate. This is doubly dangerous given they often are right, to an excerpt level. As a user, it’s all too easy to be lulled into a false sense of security and assume anything coming out of the system is true.

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The central problem for humanity in the twenty-first century is how we can nurture sufficient legitimate political power and wisdom, adequate technical mastery, and robust norms to constrain technologies to ensure they continue to do far more good than harm. How in other words, we can contain the seemingly uncontainable.

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Exponential change is coming. It is inevitable. The fact needs to be addressed.

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Make no mistake: standstill in itself spells disaster.

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That’s part of the problem; we don’t know what failure models are being introduced and how deep they could extend.

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AI is both valuable and dangerous precisely because it’s an extension of our best and worst selves.

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