Artificial Intelligence
The Things Beneath Us
We’re trying to build intelligence greater than our own while discovering, once again, what humans do when something cannot fight back.
Robotics
Essays on robotics, automation, autonomous systems, machines, labor, infrastructure, and the physical technologies leaving the laboratory for everyday life.
Artificial Intelligence
Nobody Is Driving
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
The Human Is Becoming Latency
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.
Investing
Tech Doesn’t Understand Why You Don’t Like It
Tech companies say people don’t understand the future. Maybe the bigger problem is that tech no longer understands the people expected to live in it.