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  • AI Explainer – Part I

    This is the first of four essays attempting to demystify the basic workings of AI programs and explain what we should be concerned about and why. Hopefully we can cut through the sloppy media hype to help people focus on the real risks we face, not apocalyptic fantasies. Bottom line up front: the real problems…

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  • AI, language, and liability

    How worried should we be and why? This is a meandering essay about language, intelligence, and the claims of AI enthusiasts and catastrophists. Although I’m no expert, given how little we really know about human cognition relative to its infinite complexity, I am skeptical about both apocalyptic and utopian predictions AI and our future. What…

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