The Guardian, The Atlantic, Vox, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, New Yorker, & Wired are just a few of the media outlets that have struck deals with OpenAI—in some cases, for OpenAI to train AI on their articles. I write about this deplorable situation here:
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Dr. Émile P. Torres
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Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
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The Guardian, Wired, TIME, and The Atlantic Are All Collaborating with OpenAI realtimetechpocalypse.com
Shame on the Pope, Shame on EA, Shame on Anthropic realtimetechpocalypse.com
Nick Bostrom Took Many of His "Best" Ideas from Other People realtimetechpocalypse.com
Skeptical of the TESCREAL Acronym? Read This. realtimetechpocalypse.com
"The Altruists": A New Netflix Series about Bankman-Fried and EA (Pfff) realtimetechpocalypse.com
The AI Companies are Spying on You realtimetechpocalypse.com
Why Increasingly Powerful AI Models Do NOT Imply that Superintelligence Is Imminent realtimetechpocalypse.com
The “Merge” With AI Has Already Begun thenation.com
"AI 2040" Is a Shitshow realtimetechpocalypse.com
Dean Ball Rejects "AI Communism" and Gaia Continues to Fight Back realtimetechpocalypse.com
AI Bloopers / Tiku Interview / Vox on Pro-Extinctionism realtimetechpocalypse.com
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My thoughts on the Pope's encyclical -- in particular, on his decision to platform Anthropic during the encyclical presentation. In a word, "shame." Anthropic is a profoundly unethical company, and if the Leo XIV had any sense, he wouldn't be collaborating with them. Ignominio…
I just updated this with even more examples: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/nick-bostr...
New article aims to offer a compelling introduction to the TESCREAL concept. I argue that one simply cannot make sense of what's going on in Silicon Valley--including the race to build god-like computers--without some understanding of TESCREALism. Would love to know what you t…
New article about Netflix's forthcoming series on Sam Bankman-Fried and EA (lol). I also cover how Rationalist doomer outreach is falling flat, and Dr. Timnit Gebru's new book "Deep Unlearning." Check it out and subscribe if you feel so inclined! www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/…
New article on how ChatGPT and Grok are spying on you, AI-controlled lethal drones, the coming Super El Niño, and how students are using AI to cheat. Link below! www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-ai-com...
New article on why Astra solving math problems, AI going rogue and hacking into Hugging Face, etc. DOESN'T imply that we're any closer to ASI or the Singularity. Still, I argue that we should be *very worried* about narrow, spiky AI. Read it below ... 👇 www.realtimetechpocalyp…
New article for The Nation! I argue that the "merge" with AI has already commenced: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
New article on the "AI 2040" report. Check if out if you have the time: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/ai-2040-is...
New article on Dean Ball's risible comments about Kimi K3 and "AI communism," plus some climate change updates! Check it out if you have a moment: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/dean-ball-...
New article discussing Taylor Lorenz's interesting interview with Nitasha Tiku, as well as Vox's article on Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism. Link below! www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/ai-blooper...
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I wrote about how one can hold that AI models are advancing rapidly and pose major risks to society while simultaneously maintaining that we're no closer to AGI, ASI, or the Singularity. The argument is linked below. 👇
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