Succor borne every minute
by Michael Atleson
Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your AI copilots are not gods.
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Edward Snowden Says OpenAI Just Performed a “Calculated Betrayal of the Rights of Every Person on Earth”
by Maggie Harrison Dupré
Open AI’s hiring of a former NSA director may signal a shift to surveillance as a service.
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
by Molly White
[AI tools] do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not be altogether that beneficial.
Experimenting on myself
by Mike Crittenden
I can convince myself to stick with anything if I tell myself it’s only a week-long experiment.
What kind of bubble is AI?
by Cory Doctorow
All the big, exciting uses for AI are either low-dollar (helping kids cheat on their homework, generating stock art for bottom-feeding publications) or high-stakes and fault-intolerant (self-driving cars, radiology, hiring, etc.).