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What do the bros mean when they claim to be so worried AI will wipe out humanity, and what risks do we actually need regulation to protect us from? AI was not used in writing this post. Doom as represented in a medieval church in Dauntsey, Wiltshire, UK.https://reeddesign.co.uk/paintedchurch/dauntsey-doom.htm I had breakfast with my daughter (a…

Why we should be pause-sceptical AI was not used in writing this post. Bentham actually tried to build his panoptical prison at Millbank, Westminster.By G.P. Holford – G.P. Holford, An Account of Millbank Penitentiary (1828). Fold-out ground plan, opposite p. 66.[1], Public Domain Peter Frankopian takes us through the most recent “Detecting and countering misuse…

I’m super-empowered by my Claw and excited for the future. But I want to be realistic about what will stop the agentic web from breaking bad. So I built a simulation model to answer that question… By Tony Curzon Price TL;DR Platforms win not by being evil, but by being genuinely useful first. Google, Facebook,…

How Meta intends to use its dominant position to dominate an AI future “at the intersection of technology and culture”, and how Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir of Facebook should warn us against that By Tony Curzon Price “Careless People” is the title of Sarah Wynn-Williams’ remarkable memoir of working as Facebook’s first international diplomat. She takes…