Since 2020, this site has focused on the risks at the intersection of technology and humanity, serving as the missing warning label on emerging technology. If you want to defend your humanity, dignity, and autonomy in a world that seems hellbent on taking it from you, then you’ve come to the right place.
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Augmentation is Amputation: Cognitive Atrophy and Skill Degradation in the AI Era
Read it for me, write it for me, think it for me, do it for me. These are the essential commands of the AI era. By thinking we are freeing ourselves, even if we’re only freeing our time, we create more dependence and become further removed from problems. Instead of freedom, we get confinement, locked… Read more
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Human Extinction and the AI Psychosis Factory
By now, you’ve no doubt heard of Jacob Coxon. He’s the guy who resigned from his job at Anthropic in a viral tweet and now seems to be haunting the internet with his presence. Jacob worked at both Anthropic and OpenAI and suggests we are on a collision course with human extinction, and soon. The… Read more
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Fear and Loathing in AI: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Degradation
We were somewhere between ChatGPT and complex multi-agent systems when peak hype took hold. I remember saying something like, “Things are going to get worse…” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us as AI slop infested every aspect of life, degrading even the most mundane of experiences. The internet may not be… Read more
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Felony Humble Bragging and Low-Hanging Fruit: OpenAI, Hugging Face, and AI Labs Gone Wild
I’ve had quite a few conversations about the OpenAI presentation at Black Hat over the past couple of days. Let’s just say my feedback isn’t positive. I didn’t immediately post about it due to travel, responsibilities, and, well, the fact that I still have to work. I know, isn’t AI supposed to relieve us of… Read more
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From Literate to Entertained: The Shift to a Post-Literate Culture
What happens when we shift from a literate culture to something resembling an oral culture? The answer to this question is before us. A post-literate culture took shape, and few seemed to notice as people distracted by symptoms became blind to the cause. But we didn’t revert to the oral cultures in which humanity was… Read more
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Some Thoughts on the OpenAI/HuggingFace Hack
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about OpenAI’s experiment hacking HuggingFace. It’s all anyone in tech is talking about. I’ve written a few thoughts about the hack for Modern CISO, and you can read that article here. In the article, I make the following observation about OpenAI’s write-up. OpenAI’s write-up of the incident reads more… Read more