Perilous Tech

Risks at the Intersection of Technology and Humanity

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AI security is a hot topic in the world of cybersecurity. If you don’t believe me, a brief glance at LinkedIn uncovers that everyone is an AI security expert now. This is why we end up with overly complex and sometimes nonsensical recommendations regarding the topic. But in the bustling market of thought leadership and …

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The past couple of years have been fueled entirely by vibes. Awash with nonsensical predictions and messianic claims that AI has come to deliver us from our tortured existence. Starting shortly after the launch of ChatGPT, internet prophets have claimed that we are merely six months away from major impacts and accompanying unemployment. GPT-5 was …

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Weaved through the fabric of the hustle-bro culture, threaded with the drivel of influencers, lies one of the biggest cons of our current age. This is the false perception that everything we do has to be for some financial gain or public attention. With everything in life revolving around social currency or actual currency, removing …

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What’s the effect of exposing children to AI at a very young age? Well, we are about to find out. President Trump signed an executive order called Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education For American Youth, and, in the face of the other executive orders pushed by the administration, it may be tempting to consider this order …

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In just a few short years, we’ll not only have achieved AGI but live in a world of abundance. Physical goods will be so cheap that they’ll basically be free, and we’ll be able to 3D print anything we’d like. One can only assume with their free 3D printer. We’ll connect our brains to the …

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You might wonder why AI companies are working on seemingly simple and unimportant advancements in AI when there are much more significant problems to solve. Why would companies trying to create AGI get sidetracked by focusing on potentially already-solved problems? A couple of examples are OpenAI’s voice cloning, Google’s VLOGGER, and Microsoft’s VASA-1.This research, for …

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So, let’s talk about posthumanism for a moment. Yes, posthumanism is actually a thing, and it can sound like a rather odd movement to cheerlead. After all, we as humans aren’t done being human yet. Posthumanism’s adherents are anxiously awaiting the next stage of human evolution, homo technologicus. Yes, it’s also a real thing. I’ve …

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