Artificial Intelligence

Table of Contents

A Top Roboticist Says A.I. Will Not Conquer Humanity (Tinderizer (onezero.medium.com))

The exponential economy is oversold. There is no process in the universe, ever, that’s ever been exponential for a sustained period of time, because you run out of stuff locally to do with it, or to use.

TODO

  1. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Is Haunting My Browser

Articles

  1. Forget the four-day workweek, Elon Musk predicts you won’t have to work at all in ‘less than 20 years’ https://fortune.com/2025/12/01/forget-the-four-day-workweek-elon-musk-predicts-you-wont-have-to-work-at-all-in-less-than-20-years-billionaire-success-wealth/?itm_source=parsely-api
  2. As Google eyes exponential surge in serving capacity, analyst says we’re entering ‘stage two of AI’ where bottlenecks are physical constraints https://fortune.com/2025/11/23/google-ai-data-centers-serving-capacity-contraints-gemini-google-cloud/?queryly=related_article
  3. Nvidia CEO says AI will actually make everyone a lot busier: ‘Everybody’s jobs will be different’ https://fortune.com/2025/11/21/nvidia-jensen-huang-ai-jobs-growth-elon-musk-entry-level-workers/?queryly=related_article
  4. Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace https://fortune.com/2025/11/19/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-ai-can-do-his-job/
  5. As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’ https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/as-ai-wipes-jobs-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-it-s-up-to-everyday-people-to-adapt-accordingly-we-will-have-to-work-through-societal-disruption/ar-AA1Rztql?cvid=692fb85331104024bf1acf977f28ee32&ei=2
  6. Elon Musk says AI will make most skills obsolete — but his kids can still go to college if they want https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-says-ai-will-make-most-skills-obsolete-but-his-kids-can-still-go-to-college-if-they-want/ar-AA1RyEHp?cvid=692fb85331104024bf1acf977f28ee32&ei=4
  7. ChatGPT is bullshit https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
  8. When AI Changes the Shape of Thought https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202511/when-ai-changes-the-shape-of-thought
  9. Why AI and Human Thought Need to Stay Separate https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202510/why-ai-and-human-thought-need-to-stay-separate
  10. AI and the New Rhythm of Thought https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202510/ai-and-the-new-rhythm-of-thought
  11. AI Literacy Is Just Digital and Media Literacy in Disguise https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/raising-humans-in-a-digital-world/202510/ai-literacy-is-just-digital-and-media-literacy-in
  12. Parallax Cognition: AI and Human Thought Find New Depth https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202510/parallax-cognition-ai-and-human-thought-find-new-depth
  13. The Shadow of Cognitive Laziness in the Brilliance of LLMs https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202501/the-shadow-of-cognitive-laziness-in-the-brilliance-of-llms
  14. Can AI Really Think? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/202510/can-ai-really-think
  15. The Psychology of AI’s Impact on Human Cognition https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence/202506/the-psychology-of-ais-impact-on-human-cognition
  16. When Artificial Intelligence Breaks the Frame of Meaning https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202511/when-artificial-intelligence-breaks-the-frame-of-meaning
  17. AI Scientists May Have Discovered LLMs’ Light-Bulb Moment https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/202508/ai-scientists-may-have-discovered-llms-light-bulb-moment
  18. Sleep Is the Line AI Cannot Cross https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202511/sleep-is-the-line-ai-cannot-cross
  19. AI and the Battle for Time https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202511/ai-and-the-battle-for-time
  20. AI and the Imaginary Axis of Thought https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202511/ai-and-the-imaginary-axis-of-thought
  21. The AI Reality Distortion Field https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202511/the-ai-reality-distortion-field
  22. On consciousness, AI, and panpsychism https://bigthink.com/business/on-consciousness-ai-and-panpsychism/
  23. OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System https://www.wired.com/story/openai-dev-day-sam-altman-chatgpt-apps
  24. LLMs Can Get “Brain Rot”! https://llm-brain-rot.github.io/
  25. OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-psychosis-and-self-harm-update/
  26. AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bubble-will-burst/
  27. The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-industrys-scaling-obsession-is-headed-for-a-cliff/
  28. ChatGPT’s Horny Era Could Be Its Stickiest Yet https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-horny-era/
  29. People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-complaints-chatgpt-ai-psychosis/
  30. The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-removes-blog-posts-about-ai-authored-by-by-lina-khan/
  31. OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Takes Direct Aim at Google Chrome https://www.wired.com/story/openai-atlas-browser-chrome-agents-web-browsing/
  32. Who watches the watchers? LLM on LLM evaluations https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/10/09/who-watches-the-watchers-llm-on-llm-evaluations/
  33. ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/12/chatgpt-ed-into-bed-chatfishing-on-dating-apps
  34. Why are AI companies suddenly opening up coffee shops? https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/18/ai-companies-suddenly-opening-coffee-shops/
  35. Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible https://www.wired.com/story/vibe-coding-is-the-new-open-source/
  36. The Case Against Generative AI https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/
  37. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Bananas for Google Gemini’s AI Image Generator https://www.wired.com/story/jensen-huang-has-gone-nano-bananas/
  38. Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-podcast-matthew-prince-cloudflare/
  39. The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All https://www.wired.com/story/the-doomers-who-insist-ai-will-kill-us-all/
  40. I Hate My chatbot-enabled Friend necklace https://www.wired.com/story/i-hate-my-ai-friend/
  41. Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI https://fortune.com/2025/09/15/zoom-ceo-eric-yuan-three-day-workweek-ai-automation-human-jobs-replaced-future-of-work/
  42. Benedict Evans: Why AI Isn’t What You Think https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/benedict-evans/
  43. What happens when an astrophysicist puts ChatGPT to the test? https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/astrophysicist-chatgpt/
  44. McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/
  45. The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-devil-worship-llm-training/
  46. ‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bots-streaming-music/
  47. AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work https://www.wired.com/story/ai-comes-up-with-bizarre-physics-experiments-but-they-work/
  48. College Students Have Already Changed Forever https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-college-class-of-2026/683901/
  49. AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/
  50. Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs https://www.wired.com/story/vibe-coding-engineering-apocalypse/
  51. Cheap AI Tools May Come at a Big Long-Term Cost https://www.wired.com/story/pricing-ai-agents-increasing-costs/
  52. Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent https://www.wired.com/story/former-top-google-researchers-have-made-a-new-kind-of-ai-agent/
  53. AI ‘Nudify’ Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars https://www.wired.com/story/ai-nudify-websites-are-raking-in-millions-of-dollars/
  54. WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-wired-roundup-why-gpt-5-flopped/
  55. A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year. Then an AI System Spotted His Helmet https://www.wired.com/story/missing-hiker-ai-drone-recovery/
  56. Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-calendar-invite-hijack-smart-home/
  57. GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-5-it-just-does-stuff
  58. To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-build-truly-intelligent-machines-teach-them-cause-and-effect-20180515/
  59. Text-to-image AIs are changing art forever https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/text-to-image-ai
  60. Why AI Will Save the World - Marc Andreessen - https://a16z.com/ai-will-save-the-world/
  61. https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/kxgg1b/openais_chief_scientist_ilya_sutskever_comments/
  62. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence#Risks
  63. Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-moves-toward-eliminating-set-prices-in-favor-of-ai-that-determines-how-much-you-personally-will-pay-for-a-ticket/?itm_source=parsely-api
  64. Eventbrite’s CEO is using AI to analyze personality compatibility with colleagues— it helps her decide who to promote and hire https://fortune.com/2025/07/18/eventbrite-ceo-julia-hartz-ai-hiring-promoting/
  65. Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room https://getpocket.com/explore/item/machine-learning-confronts-the-elephant-in-the-room
  66. Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It) https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html
  67. Google DeepMind’s AI Agent Dreams Up Algorithms Beyond Human Expertise https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepminds-ai-agent-dreams-up-algorithms-beyond-human-expertise/
  68. Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia https://www.wired.com/story/paranoia-social-engineering-real-fake/
  69. This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops https://www.wired.com/story/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-personas-police-suspects/
  70. ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overviews-meaning/
  71. https://bigthink.com/the-future/kevin-kelly-points-a-new-way-forward-into-the-age-of-ai/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=BigThink/magazine/Big+Think
  72. Mark Cuban: How To Use AI To Grow Your Income: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-cuban-ai-grow-income-180027879.html
  73. Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End: https://futurism.com/ai-researchers-tech-industry-dead-end
  74. https://www.economist.com/business/2025/01/20/openais-latest-model-will-change-the-economics-of-software
  75. A Second AI Researcher Says She Was Fired by Google: https://www.wired.com/story/second-ai-researcher-says-fired-google/
  76. The Dark Side of Big Tech’s Funding for AI Research: https://www.wired.com/story/dark-side-big-tech-funding-ai-research/
  77. Timnit Gebru’s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI: https://www.wired.com/story/timnit-gebru-exit-google-exposes-crisis-in-ai/
  78. Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center: https://www.wired.com/story/ex-googler-timnit-gebru-starts-ai-research-center/
  79. A Prominent AI Ethics Researcher Says Google Fired Her: https://www.wired.com/story/prominent-ai-ethics-researcher-says-google-fired-her/
  80. What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru: https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/
  81. Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down: https://www.wired.com/story/rewired-2021-timnit-gebru/
  82. Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher’s Firing: https://www.wired.com/story/behind-paper-led-google-researchers-firing/
  83. Why AI Will Save the World | Andreessen Horowitz: https://a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-will-save-the-world/
  84. AI Is Taking Water From the Desert: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/ai-water-climate-microsoft/677602/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
  85. Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/23/1023549/kate-crawford-atlas-of-ai-review/
  86. How Could A.I. Destroy Humanity? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/technology/ai-humanity.html
  87. Why it’ll be hard to tell if AI ever becomes conscious: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081818/why-itll-be-hard-to-tell-if-ai-ever-becomes-conscious/
  88. What Chatbot Bloopers Reveal About the Future of AI: https://www.wired.com/story/bing-chatbot-errors-ai-future/
  89. Military AI’s Next Frontier: Your Work Computer: https://www.wired.com/story/military-ais-next-frontier-your-work-computer/
  90. AI’s Fingerprints Were All Over the Election: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/ai-s-fingerprints-were-all-over-the-election/ar-AA1uaBt7?cvid=fbcc4fee294b47dab22fd8966dd97ccf&ei=56
  91. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/how-a-stubborn-computer-scientist-accidentally-launched-the-deep-learning-boom/
  92. https://medium.com/practice-in-public/these-words-make-it-obvious-that-your-text-is-written-by-ai-9b04f399d88c
  93. https://tech.co/news/best-free-ai-training-courses-october-2024
  94. Opinion | It’s Not the End of Work. It’s the End of Boring Work. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opinion/jobs-ai-chatgpt.html
  95. Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’ - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/five-ways-ai-might-destroy-the-world-everyone-on-earth-could-fall-over-dead-in-the-same-second
  96. Can AI Write Authentic Poetry? https://mit.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7946b0dd9aa4be20bd535d6b5&id=39a8a2c393&e=a05f0b3700
  97. https://openai.com/index/openai-elon-musk/
  98. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/plentiful-high-paying-jobs-in-the
  99. https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
  100. Humane AI Pin review: not even close: 1. https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review 2. https://www.theverge.com/24084444/humane-ai-pin-hands-on
  101. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-algorithmic-ocean-how-ai-is-revolutionizing-marine-conservation/
  102. How to Make Artificial Intelligence Less Biased - https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-make-artificial-intelligence-less-biased-11604415654
  103. He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death. So he brought her back as an A.I. chatbot - https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation-artificial-intelligence/
  104. Computers May Have Cracked the Code to Diagnosing Sepsis - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/10/sepsis-artificial-intelligence-diagnosing-early-detection/671755/
  105. https://qz.com/ai-banks-jpmorgan-chase-goldman-sachs-bank-of-america-1851423099

Failures

  1. Plagued with errors: A news outlet’s decision to write stories with AI backfires https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/tech/cnet-ai-tool-news-stories/index.html
  2. 11 more crash deaths are linked to automated-tech vehicles https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-10-18/11-more-crash-deaths-are-linked-to-automated-tech-vehicles
  3. The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT is to blame
  4. Lawsuit claims Character.AI is responsible for teen’s suicide

Doubts

  1. The Illusion of Thinking
  2. The subtle art of language: why artificial general intelligence might be impossible https://bigthink.com/the-future/artificial-general-intelligence-impossible/
  3. Artificial General Intelligence Is Not as Imminent as You Might Think https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-general-intelligence-is-not-as-imminent-as-you-might-think1/
  4. Why AI gets stuck in infinite loops — but conscious minds don’t https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/anil-seth-consciousness-time-perception/
  5. Exceptional storytelling and the myth of superhuman AI https://bigthink.com/business/exceptional-storytelling-and-the-myth-of-superhuman-ai/

What they are and how they work

  1. How does AI differ from web search?
  2. AI is neither artificial nor intelligent
  3. We Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All
  4. What kind of intelligence is artificial intelligence?
  5. How do DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other forms of generative AI work? https://bigthink.com/the-future/dall-e-midjourney-stable-diffusion-models-generative-ai/

How to use LLMs? How to get better at Prompt Engineering? How to get better at collaborating with AI?

  1. How to use LLMS for personal productivity gains?
  2. How Stanford Teaches AI-Powered Creativity?
  3. The AI Skills You Should Be Building Now
  4. Embracing Gen AI at Work

How to use LLMs while writing code?

  1. How to use LLMs to help us write code?
  2. Using AI for coding
  3. How an CoPilot AI Became My Code-Writing Genie
  4. Technologists are embracing ‘vibe coding’ as they deploy more AI-enabled tools to boost productivity
  5. Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

LLMs, AI and interviews

  1. Using LLM models and AI websites for interview preparation
  2. How companies are rethinking their vetting of engineering candidates in the age of AI coding tools
  3. Businesses in the age of AI have to rethink how they manage talent: ‘You protect the worker … you don’t protect the job itself’
  4. Columbia student, who was suspended over his AI job interview cheating tool, raises $5.3 million in seed funding

The Turing test, The Imitation Game, The Chinese Room argument

  1. The Turing Test Is Bad for Business
  2. Google has not created sentient AI — yet
  3. Passing the Turing Test: AI creates human-like text
  4. Will AI ever achieve true understanding?
  5. From Turing Test to Tokyo Test

Possible uses of AI in day-to-day life

  1. Possible uses of AI that are not related to work
  2. The imitation game or The Turing test
  3. The Chinese room argument

Impacts of AI on work

You’ve probably heard the saying, AI will not replace you—but a human using AI will.

  1. AI Won’t Replace Humans — But Humans With AI Will Replace Humans Without AI
  2. An AI-powered coding tool wiped out a software company’s database, then apologized for a ‘catastrophic failure on my part’
  3. AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’
  4. AI is gutting workforces—and an ex-Google exec says CEOs are too busy ‘celebrating’ their efficiency gains to see they’re next
  5. A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.
  6. AI is driving mass layoffs in tech, but it’s boosting salaries by $18,000 a year everywhere else, study says
  7. AI isn’t taking all the jobs
  8. AI means communication at work matters more than ever
  9. AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient.
  10. Amazon’s CEO says the AI takeover is coming
  11. Behind the Curtain — Jensen vs. Dario: “There will be more jobs”
  12. Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won’t be needed ‘for most things’
  13. ChatGPT Isn’t Coming for Your Coding Job
  14. Execs say workers have to adapt to AI, but workers are resisting
  15. Has AI Ended Careers Before they Start?
  16. How AI is already shaking up the job market
  17. LinkedIn cofounder says Gen Z graduates have one big selling point as potential new hires: Being AI natives
  18. The AI-Fueled Future of Work Needs Humans More Than Ever
  19. The Last AI Boom Didn’t Kill Jobs
  20. The second wave of AI coding is here
  21. Why some companies are rethinking the use of AI

Impacts on Economy

  1. Is there an AI bubble? Financial institutions sound a warning

Impacts of AI on culture

  1. Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
  2. What AI cannot do
  3. The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
  4. AI Has Already Run Us Over the Cliff
  5. AI generated content is being used as an excuse to ignore real content
  6. Forget about artificial intelligence, extended intelligence is the future
  7. Machine Learning Widens the Gap Between Knowledge and Understanding
  8. Optimizing Machines Is Perilous. Consider ‘Creatively Adequate’ AI.
  9. How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
  10. ChatGPT Can’t Plan. This Matters.
  11. American Spy Agencies Are Struggling in the Age of Data
  12. The Secret Auction That Set Off the Race for AI Supremacy
  13. Americans Need a Bill of Rights for an AI-Powered World
  14. China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching
  15. Europe Is in Danger of Using the Wrong Definition of AI
  16. We must slow down the race to God-like AI
  17. AI Has Arrived, and That Really Worries the World’s Brightest Minds
  18. The AI Revolution Is Already Losing Steam
  19. The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants
  20. The creepiness of conversational AI has been put on full display

TODO

  1. Where Are All the AI Drugs?
  2. How AI slop is clogging your brain
  3. 4 Steps to Protect Your Brain From Agency Decay When Using AI https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence/202509/our-minds-are-rewired-amid-ai
  4. Hidden Mental Health Dangers of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/202509/hidden-mental-health-dangers-of-artificial-intelligence-chatbots
  5. Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence
  6. He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-disappearance-jon-ganz-1235438552/
  7. Why Your Chatbot Should Not Be Your Bestie https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-emotional-toolkit/202511/why-your-chatbot-should-not-be-your-bestie
  8. When AI Chatbots Encourage Violence https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/202511/when-ai-chatbots-encourage-violence
  9. AI Has Started Lying https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence/202505/ai-has-started-lying
  10. Should We Let AI Think for Us? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/college-confidential/202509/should-we-let-ai-think-for-us
  11. The Great AI Deception Has Already Begun https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-happy-life/202505/the-great-ai-deception-has-already-begun

Relationships with AI tools

  1. My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

People that are influencers in this area

  1. 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story
  2. Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny
  3. Elon Musk’s xAI Might Be Hallucinating Its Chances Against ChatGPT
  4. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI
  5. It’s Known as ‘The List’—and It’s a Secret File of AI Geniuses
  6. Eric Schmidt Is Secretly Testing AI Military Drones In A Wealthy Silicon Valley Suburb
  7. Sam Altman on ChatGPT 5 backlash and the future of OpenAI https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/759897/sam-altman-chatgpt-openai-social-media-google-chrome-interview
  8. OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-5-backlash-sam-altman/
  9. Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-first-product-fine-tune/

Opinions about AI

In the same way that TV content discourages storytelling skills in viewers, AI work will use previous inspiration to disincentivize the process of exploration and invention – which are not efficient, but are required to create something superior.

The act of struggling towards creating is how skill is built. If we remove all of the struggle, such that usage does not require a competent user, we are guaranteed to introduce atrophy in our ability to think, be inspired, and make excellence, no matter how good our intentions.

It’s a conundrum – one has struggle at successive, more difficult, but menial/repetitive creative and thinking tasks to be good enough to use this kind of automation. But the automation itself gives no incentive to the users to maintain this struggle required to be a good judge of ’the work'.

The tool de-incentivizes that development, not remove it or block the ability for AI to be an enhancement. However, that requires someone willing to not automate part of the process and have the discipline to scaffold with AI, rather than replace a task entirely.

But unfortunately, the market and most people don’t want a nuanced conversation – they’re too used to the A/B options and that someone tells them what to choose.

Usually, no one does more work unless they have to, even if the payout is disproportionately better. Our times certainly confirm that people are looking for services that save them from having to think for themselves. That is not necessarily wise, but it’s usually how it plays out.

As for AI replacing developers, we are still decades away from that. AI right now is about prompting, generating and analyzing code but that’s still just a fraction of what a developer does. You need someone to create a coherent whole. Rather than replacing developers, I see productivity shooting up and as a result, feature sets increasing alongside. The net result is more software being delivered with the same amount of developers.

The day that AI decides to build something unprompted, with its own agenda, is the day to start worrying.

The worst part is the idiots that believe AI slop nonsense will not care that it’s proven fake. As long as it maps onto what they truly believe, they don’t care because “well someone probably does it”. The worst part about AI popping off in this era is that the truth doesn’t matter to a significant portion of the global population.

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Questions leadership needs to consider regarding AI

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