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In his recent essay Policy on the AI Exponential, Dario Amodei of Anthropic raises a concern worth taking seriously. Artificial intelligence may be advancing faster than society can adapt, which makes our response to that pace the critical question. Regardless of differing predictions or timelines, the essential issue is how
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At a remote U.S. military testing range near the Mexican border, defense contractor Anduril recently unveiled a chillingly sophisticated demonstration of autonomous drones guided not by pre-coded routines, but by a large language model (LLM), a cousin to systems like ChatGPT. In under a minute, the swarm coordinated
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At the recent AI4 conference in Las Vegas (August 11th – 13th), Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “grandfather of AI”, delivered his remarks on designing AI with “maternal instincts,” with the goal that these super-intelligent systems see humanity as their “baby,” ensuring benevolence towards us rather than replacing us. While
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This post is also available as a podcast if you prefer to listen on the go or enjoy an audio format: We stand at a curious moment in human history. Despite unprecedented advances in automation and artificial intelligence, many working people today struggle more than ever. Technology now exists to
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This post is also available as a podcast if you prefer to listen on the go or enjoy an audio format: The relationship between economic policy and technological innovation has never been more complex or consequential than it is today. As we navigate a landscape marked by renewed trade tensions
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This post is also available as a podcast if you prefer to listen on the go or enjoy an audio format: Here at BearNetAI, my focus is AI education and outreach. While I am primarily an AI Advocate and Technology Enthusiast, I sometimes enjoy taking on the role of a
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This post is also available as a podcast if you prefer to listen on the go or enjoy an audio format: Here at BearNetAI, my focus is AI education and outreach. While I am primarily an AI Advocate and Technology Enthusiast, I sometimes enjoy taking on the role of a
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Unlike my usual and customary posts on this blog, this one will be more editorial but still very relevant to AI. As a young boy, I grew up watching Star Trek and continue to do so today. I’m a hard-core “Trekkie” through and through. I watched an old