Nice to see Cal Newport getting it right in the NYT. "This style of anxious talk also allows the A.I. companies to portray themselves as the reluctant 'stewards' of an inevitable technology, which is a framing they can use to deflect blame for damage caused by their own produc…
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Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
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Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? nytimes.com
The ASI Extinction Debate Is the Opposite of What You Think realtimetechpocalypse.com
More Everything Forever hachettebookgroup.com
Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport podcasts.apple.com
Episode 23: Language Models, with Emily Bender dreamingagainstthemachine.com
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Data Centers in Space!? (with Dr. Adam Becker), 2026.03.02 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 buzzsprout.com
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The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA noemamag.com
AI Slop Startups Like “Delve” Will Never Beat the Fraud Allegations bayareacurrent.com
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Episode 20: Resisting AI Data Centers, with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez youtu.be
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Episode 7: The History (and Future) of Technology, with Susannah Glickman youtube.com
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@xriskology.bsky.social in their newsletter this month: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-asi-ex... This is more academic, but it's short and the standard reference on this, from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @xriskology.bsky.social: www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
I just wanted to write about physics! But noooo, a fucking sex cult had to take over Silicon Valley and the entire public discourse about technology and the future while aiding the rise of fascism, and I felt duty-bound to write about that instead LOOK WHAT THEY MADE ME DO
My book gets into that in detail, and also I have many thoughts on this. The short version is that it's not an issue. Also had a good conversation with @edzitron.com and Cal Newport about this earlier this week. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Had a blast joining @adambecker.bsky.social on his podcast Dreaming Against the Machine --- what a lovely space for looking at awfulness and thinking about what could be better. www.dreamingagainstthemachine.com/episode-23-l...
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Always fun to do podcast appearance exchanges, too! @adambecker.bsky.social was on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 a few months ago: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
You also might want to check out my latest book, which explains the ideologies of the people and communities pushing these narratives of AI consciousness in the media:
Jeffrey, Carl is exasperated & reasonably so. There has been an awful lot of careful work by experts on this which simply hasn't gotten the same kind of airtime as ill-informed speculative (at best) claims that Carl is pushing back against. Have a look at this great article by…
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Today I learned that the great Wendy Liu aka @dellsystem.bsky.social has a regular column about AI industry billboards in SF in the @bayareacurrent.bsky.social. It's such a great way to examine these companies and AI culture in the valley and the Bay. I'll be reading them all …
I mean you could always pick it up here and help a starving author out:
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AI Now's Alli Finn joined @dreamingagainstthemachine.com to speak with host @adambecker.bsky.social and @athenaforall.bsky.social's Matt Rodriguez about the speed and scale of data center construction, its impact on surrounding communities, and how people can fight back. youtu…
New episode of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com is up! This week my guest is Susannah Glickman, a brilliant historian of science and tech. We talked about AI, Moore's Law, quantum computers, a rocket-ships-and-chrome vision of the future, and more! This might be my favorite epis…
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@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯
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