Essays on artificial intelligence, automation, generative AI, creative work, infrastructure, labor, culture, and the institutions shaping the AI boom.
Artificial Intelligence
AI researchers are quitting, labs are talking about slowing down, governments are worried about China, and everyone has an incentive to keep accelerating anyway. Maybe we have been looking at the AI alignment problem one layer too low.
Artificial Intelligence
Humanity would very much like to keep a human in charge of the killer robots. Unfortunately, humans are increasingly becoming the slowest part of the system.
Artificial Intelligence
AI learned from decades of human-made internet. Now it is writing the internet too. Suddenly, old books, dead forums and forgotten files have a strange new value: provenance.
Artificial Intelligence
I once played live music for a Russian oligarch who never once looked at the stage. That gig is where this piece on Suno, copyright, and the AFM's lawsuit against Warner and Universal begins.