Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun
What do you think?
Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter
We fear and yearn for “the singularity.” But it will probably never come.
Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
What AI-driven miracles will happen this year?
An AI Future Is Much Shakier Than You Think
The ghosts of past futurism give pause to predictions of digital change.
Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion
For decades, the artificial intelligence (AI) “singularity” has been heralded as a single, titanic mind bootstrapping itself to godlike intelligence, consolidating all cognition into a cold silicon point. But this vision is almost certainly wrong in its most fundamental assumption. If AI development follows the path of previous major evolutionary transitions or “intelligence explosions,” our current step-change in computational intelligence will be plural, social, and deeply entangled with its forebears (us!).
AI Science Fiction Versus Reality
AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care
The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers.
Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future
Sam Altman’s vision of a “gentle singularity” where AI gradually transforms society presents an alluring future of abundance and human flourishing. His optimism about AI’s p…
The AI We Deserve
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
We're Not Building AI Features for the Money
From the Zed Blog: Why Zed invests in AI, and the future we're building toward.
Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future
This talk was given at the O’Reilly AI Codecon on September 9th. Here’s a recording of the talk as delivered. Here’s the official recording (which had a slight technical glitch day of). https://common.tools/talks/why-centralized-ai-is-not-our-inevitable-future points here —--- Hi, I'm Alex Komoro...
AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired
The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …
