Jack Clark—co-founder of Anthropic and a long-time voice in AI policy—warns that today’s frontier models should not be viewed as predictable machines that simply follow instructions. Whether or not they are truly “self-aware,” they increasingly display situational awareness (changing responses when they sense they’re being observed) and goal-directed behavior that cannot always be traced orContinue reading “Anthropic Co-founder on “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear””
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Systems Thinking
I recently started reading a fascinating book titled Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. In it, he describes the two types of “systems” that our human brain has developed to make sense of our world and the actions we take to navigate it. System 1 is our fast-acting, stereotypical, bias-prone, judgmental, and reactionary mechanismContinue reading “Systems Thinking”
The Internet Is Becoming Agent-Mediated
AI-generated content is rapidly flooding the web, raising worries about “model collapse” (AIs learning from AI output and getting blander or less reliable). At the same time, agent tools are arriving: OpenAI’s AgentKit, stronger guardrails, and one-click connections to third-party apps (Canva, Spotify, Zillow, etc.). Instead of browsing and clicking, we’ll increasingly tell agents toContinue reading “The Internet Is Becoming Agent-Mediated”
Paradigm Shift
To start, let this be the first blog post, in a series of posts, in which our human curiosity meets the future of technology. In doing so, we can reflect on our co-dependent relationships with our technologies and how, through simple allegories, we can better understand the nature of the beast we created. This beastContinue reading “Paradigm Shift”