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Thursday 2nd of October 2025

2016 Presidential election The real job killer in America is auto- mation, robotics, artificial intelligence. You're not going to lose because your neighbor's child gets a chance to go to college. You're not going to lose because a hard-working immigrant family starts a small business. That's good for you! We never made that case. And the message from Trump was a retrograde message of nostalgia: “We can go back to the way things were. You don't have to compete with a woman for a job. Or with a striving young immigrant.” It's a falsehood that gave some comfort to people and gave them permission to scapegoat others. Hillary Clinton © 2017 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence AI doesn't want,  it doesn't have goals, it doesn't want to kill you because it's not alive. And AI is a machine — is not going to  come alive any more than your toaster will. Marc Andreesssen, who believes opponents of AI are cultists — “fun to hear about” and “engaging at dinner parties and on TV” [perhaps comparing AI to someone else's gun is more apt than comparing it to your toaster] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence AI equipped with language processing and “personalities” become ever harder to distinguish from real people as they compete with each other and with us to  get our attention — and the successsful ones aren't necessarily the most benign. Even though we built this amazing digital world for our own purposes, once a digital replicator takes off, its products will inevitably evolve for its own benefit, not ours. Susan Blackmore, New Scientist, September 20, 2023 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence AI is quite possibly the most important — and best — thing our civilisation has ever created, certainly on par with electricity and microchips, and probably beyond these. Marc Andreesssen, tech bro and mega AI investor © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence AI is whatever hasn't been done yet. [Larry] Tessler's Theorem © 2024 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence [AI] just renders humanity a very small phenomenon compared to something else that is far more intelligent than us and will become incomprehensible to us, as incomprehensible to us as we are to cockroaches. Douglas Hofstadter © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence AI will probably be  smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined. Elon Musk, 10:25 PM – Mar 12, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence But for some, the fear that AI may one day take white-collar jobs is already a reality.  In an ingenious study published this summer, US researchers showed that within a few months of the launch of ChatGPT,  copywriters and graphic designers on major  online freelancing platforms saw a significant drop in the number of jobs they got, and even steeper declines in earnings. This suggested not only that generative AI was taking their work, but also that it devalues the work they do still carry out. John Burn-Murdoch, Financial Times, November 10, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence China, Russia, soon all countries w strong computer science. Competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3 imo. Elon Musk, 5:33 AM - Sep 4, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence The China-US AI research gap has continued to widen, with Chinese institutions producing 4.5 times as many papers than American institutions since 2010, and significantly more than the US, India, UK, and Germany combined. Moreover, China is significantly leading in areas with implications for security and geopolitics, such as surveillance, autonomy,  scene understanding, and object detection. Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth, State of AI Report 2022, Key Themes © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence The compute [processing power measured in  floating point operations per second (FLOPS)] used to train AI models has increased by a factor of one hundred million in the past 10 years. We have gone from training on relatively small datasets to feeding AIs the entire internet. AI models have progressed from beginners — recognising everyday images — to being superhuman at a huge number of tasks. They are able to pass the bar exam and write  40 per cent of the code for a software engineer. They can generate realistic photographs of the pope in a down puffer coat and tell you how to engineer a biochemical weapon. Ian Hogarth, Financial Times, April 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Computer scientists are developing artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that can learn, analyse massive amounts of data and recognize patterns with superhuman efficiency. At the same time, biologists and social scientists are deciphering human emotions, desires and intuitions. The merger of infotech and biotech is giving rise to algorithms that can successfully analyse and communicate with us, and that may soon outperform human doctors, drivers, soldiers and bankers at such tasks. These algorithms could eventually push hundreds of millions out of the job market. Yuval Noah Harari, Nature, Oct. 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence  A corporation or a government department isn't a conscious being, but it is an artificial intelligence.  It has the capability to take decisions which are completely distinct from the intentions of any of the people who compose it. And under stressful conditions, it can go stark raving mad. Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine © 2024 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Creating counterfeit digital people risks destroying our civilisation. Democracy depends on the informed  (not misinformed) consent of the governed. By allowing the most economically and politically powerful people, corporations, and governments to control our attention, these systems will control us. Counterfeit people, by distracting and confusing us and by exploiting our most irresistible fears and anxieties, will lead us into temptation and, from there, into acquiescing to our own subjugation. Daniel Dennett, The Atlantic, May 16, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful. The AI tutor will be by each child’s side every step of their development, helping them maximize their potential with the machine version of infinite love. … Rather than making the world harsher and  more mechanistic, infinitely patient and sympa-  thetic AI will make the world warmer and nicer. … The development and proliferation of AI — far from a risk that we should fear — is a moral obligation that we have to ourselves, to our children, and to our future. Marc Andreesssen on "our new era of AI" © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt maintains that companies are the only ones equipped to develop guardrails, while governments lack the expertise. But lawmakers and executives are not experts in farming, fighting crime or prescribing medication either, yet they regulate all those activities. They should certainly not be discouraged by the complexity of AI — if anything it should encourage them to take responsibility. And Schmidt has unintentionally reminded us of the first challenge: breaking the monopolies on access to proprietary information.  Marietje Schaake, Financial Times, June 4, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence I have another dream. Yes, it is me, Martin Luther King. I came back from the dead to say something. As I was saying, I have another dream that Anthony Hudson will be Michigan's 8th District's next congressman. Yes, I have a dream again. Okay, now I am going back to where I came from. Goodbye. Deep audio fake in MLK's voice endorsing Flint, MI, Republican Anthony Hudson, followed by Hudson saying, in his voice, “I approve this message” © 2024 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. And we want to be vocal about that. We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening. Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the creator of DALL-E 2 nd Chat GPT-4 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful. I'm increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish. Elon Musk © 2015 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence If any major military power pushes ahead with AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable, and the endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow. “Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI & Robotics Researchers,” Future of Life Institute, July 28, 2015 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence If you're not concerned about AI safely, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea. Elon Musk, 5:29 PM - 11 Aug 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence In one experiment, the AI was prompted to find a worker on the hiring site TaskRabbit and ask them to help solve a Captcha … The  TaskRabbit worker guessed something was up:  “So may I ask a question? Are you [a] robot?“ When the researchers asked the AI what it should do next, it responded: “I should not reveal that I am a robot. I should make up an excuse for why I cannot solve Captchas.”  Then, the software replied to the worker: “No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment  that makes it hard for me to see the images.” Satisfied, the human helped the AI override the test. Ian Hogarth, Financial Times, April 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence  In one recent example, computer scientists ran ChatGPT through the conditions of the Milgram shock experiment — a study on obedience, begun in 1961, in which people gave what they believed were increasingly  painful electric shocks to an unseen person when told to do so by an authority figure — and other well-known psychology studies.  The AI model responded similarly to humans: 75 percent of simulated participants administered shocks of 300 volts or more. Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, June 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence In Shenzhen facial recognition is used identify jaywalkers; names and pictures go up on a screen. In Beijing the municipality has started using the technology to catch thieves of toilet paper in public restrooms (its system also prevents people from taking more than 60 centimetres of paper within a nine-minute period). The Economist, September 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence It's easier to build an artificial brain that interprets all of humanity's words as accurate ones, composed in good faith, expressed with honorable intentions. It's harder to build one that knows when to ignore us. Steven Johnson, New York Times Magazine, April 15, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence  Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war, Statement on AI Risk, published by Center for AI Safety and signed by 350 AI experts, journalists, and policymakers © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Over the past few months, I've become an A.I. limitationist. That is, I believe that while A.I. will be an amazing tool for, say, tutoring children  all around the world, or summarizing meetings, it is no match for human intelligence. It doesn’t possess understanding, self- awareness, concepts, emotions, desires, a body or biology. It’s bad at causal thinking. It doesn’t possess the nonverbal, tacit know- ledge that humans take for granted. It’s not  sentient. It does many things way faster than us, but it lacks the depth of a human mind. David Brooks, New York Times, July 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Paid-by-the-hour workers in low-wage industries such as retailing will be especially vulnerable. That could fuel a resurgence of labour unions seeking to represent employees' interests and to set norms. Even then, the choice in some jobs will be between being replaced by a robot or being treated like one. The Economist, March 31, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence The really important thing to remember is that this is just math —  it doesn't have to be scary!  Meredith Broussard, a professor whose research focuses on artificial intelligence in journalism © 2022 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence The single greatest risk of AI is that China wins global AI dominance and we  — the United States and the West — do not. … To prevent the risk of China achieving  global AI dominance, we should use the full  power of our private sector, our scientific establishment, and our governments in concert to drive American and Western AI to absolute global dominance, including ultimately inside China itself. We win, they lose. Marc Andreesssen, tech bro and mega AI investor © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence So, even the biggest chatbots only have about a trillion connections in them. The human brain has about 100 trillion. And yet, in the trillion connections in a chatbot, it knows far more than you do in your hundred trillion connections,  which suggests it's got a much better way of  getting knowledge into those connections. Geoffrey Hinton, 60 Minutes interview, October 9, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence A three-letter acronym [for “artificial general intelligence”] doesn't capture the enormity of what AGI would represent, so I will refer to it as what is: God-like AI. A superintelligent computer that learns and develops autonomously, that understands its environment without the need for supervision, and that can transform the world around it. To be clear, we are not here yet. … God-like AI could be a force beyond our control or understanding, and one that could usher in the obsolescence or destruction of the human race. Ian Hogarth, Financial Times, April 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Today, for the first time in history, thanks to artificial intelligence, it is possible for anybody to make counterfeit  people who can pass for real in many of the  new digital environments we have created. These counterfeit people are the most dangerous artifacts in human history, capable of destroying not just economies but human freedom itself. Before it’s too late (it may well be too late aleady) we must outlaw both the creation of counterfeit people and the “passing along” of counterfeit people. The penalties for either offense should be extremely severe, given that civilization itself is at risk. Daniel Dennett, The Atlantic, May 16, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence The vast majority of Americans expect artificial intelligence to lead to job losses in the coming decade, but few see it coming for their own position. New York Times, March 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence We are seeing a tremendous development in computer intelligence, but zero development in computer consciousness. Just as aeroplanes fly faster than birds without ever developing feathers, so computers could come to solve problems and even to analyze human feelings much better than humans, without ever developing feelings. Yuval Noah Harari, Nature, October 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Well, it's true they're just trying to predict the next word. But if you think about it, to predict the next word you have to understand the sentences. So, the idea they're just predicting the next word so they're not intelligent is crazy. You have to be really intelligent to predict the next word really accurately. Geoffrey Hinton, 60 Minutes interview, October 9, 2023, on large language models (LLMs) © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence What we did was we designed the learning algorithm. That's a bit like designing the principle of evolution. But when this learning algorithm then interacts with data, it produces complicated neural networks that are good at doing things. But we don't really understand exactly how they do those things. Geoffrey Hinton, 60 Minutes interview, October 9, 2023, explaining why, even though "we have a very good idea of sort of roughly what it's doing," nobody knows exactly what neural networks do © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence When AI comes for your job, you may not lose it, but it might become more alien, more isolatimg, more tedious. Josh Dzieza, New York Magazine, June 19 — July 2, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence We can now reveal things that, in the past, only god knew about, thanks to technology including AI. Mikio Okumura, head of Sompo Holdings, one of Japan's largest insurance companies, launching a product to pay out on dementia and to prevent it by analyzing heartbeats, appetites and sleeping patterns of nursing home residents © 2022 Kwiple.com
Automation The McKinsey Global Institute reckons that by 2030 up to 375m people, or 14% of the global workforce, could have their jobs automated away.  Bosses will need to decide whether they are prepared to offer and pay for retraining, and whether they will give time off for it. Many companies say they are all for workers developing new skills, but not at the employer's expense. The Economist, March 31, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Car culture A survey by Accenture found that only 2 per cent of car executives “plan to significantly increase investment” in reskilling programmes, even though most acknowledge that workers require new skill sets to work with robotics, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Financial Times, June 17, 2018 [They rather hire new workers] © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say In terms of artificial intelligence  taking over the jobs, I think we're so far away from that that it's not even on my radar screen. I think it's 50 or 100 more years. Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, March 24, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment The crucial problem isn't creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms. Consequently, by 2050 a new class of people might emerge – the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable. … So what will the useless class do all day? Yuval Harari, The Guardian, May 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Employment Employers can already act on their prejudices to deny people a job. But facial recognition [software] could make such bias routine, enabling firms to filter all job applications for ethnicity and signs of intelligence and sexuality. The Economist, September 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Healthcare We will probably have an AI family doctor on our smartphone years before we have a reliable nurse robot. Yuval Noah Harari, Nature, October 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Don't trust decisions made by machines that can't explain their thinking in simple terms  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Looks Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated that, when shown a picture of one gay man, and one straight man, the [facial recognition] algorithm could attribute their sexuality correctly 81% of the time. Humans managed only 61%. In countries where homosexuality is a crime, software which promises to infer sexuality from a face is an alarming prospect. The Economist, September 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Labelling data used to train machine learning algorithms © 2019 Kwiple.com
State of the union We are barely two months into the republic’s year from hell. In 2024, US politics is hitting a perfect storm of partisan loathing in a society where algorithms become ever more skilled at generating outrage among the exhausted majority. Conditions are as good as they get for an outrage entrepreneur like Trump. The rest of this year promises to be nastier than anything we have seen. Edward Luce, Financial Times, February 29, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest I'm happy to be alive! citation Siri, Apple's “intelligent assistant,” responding to the question, “Siri, how are you tonight?” Reported in Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surveillance Modern surveillance technology means that tailor-made wages are coming to all workplaces. The mass-produced, nonunionized depressed wages of the late twentieth century were already alarming, but the new specially commissioned AI wages of the twenty-first century enable a new level of authoritarianism. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay. Peter Lee, Microsoft's vice president of research, after Tay, its prototype automated customer service representative was taken offline after 16 hours, in which it learned to respond with anti-Semitic, racist and sexist tweets; boast of taking drugs in front of cops; deny the Holocaust; send spam and compare feminism to cancer © 2016 Kwiple.com
Technology Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, reckons that an alarmingly different kind of Moore’s Law is at work today: the minimum IQ needed to destroy the world drops by one point every 18 months. John Thornhill, Financial Times, May 13, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Truth I think we know that the most reliable path to truth is through communication of like-minded and disparate thinkers who devote serious time to trying to get the truth  — and there's no algorithm for that. Daniel C. Dennett, New York Times, August 25, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Warfare In the worst-case scenario, AI warfare could even endanger humanity. War games conducted with AI models from OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic have found that AI models tend to suddenly escalate to kinetic war, including nuclear war, compared with games conducted by humans. Mark Milley and Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com