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Reaction converging Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
AI apocalypse framing essay

Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Justin Hendrix
“"It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us."” evidence ↗
10 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Abeba Birhane Justin Hendrix Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio AI Now Institute Tamara Kneese Joris van Hoboken Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র +2
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“From the promises and catastrophic musings of tech CEOs to extraction from the earth and from human creativity to AI's inevitable end → read the full essay: www.equator.org/articles/aru...”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“"It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us."”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Justin Hendrix: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
David Kaye: i had to scroll to the end for this modest, "arundhati roy is a writer"
Eryk Salvaggio: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
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Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Eryk Salvaggio
“It’s still possible to differentiate LLM generated text from human text, and there are interesting effects if you try to make it less detectable (such as, paradoxically, the text becoming less convincing?). Only skimmed this for now, but seems interesting. …” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio

“It’s still possible to differentiate LLM generated text from human text, and there are interesting effects if you try to make it less detectable (such as, paradoxically, the text becoming less convincing?). Only skimmed this for now, but seems interesting. …”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 7d ago
digital tech control dystopia essay

The Digital Hands Around Our Throat

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Benjamin Riley
“BlueSky world, I'm looking for: -- US-based creatives (illustrators, film, art, but *not just writing*) -- Who radically oppose AI intrusion into education & schools -- And have created something(s) demonstrating their resistance Is that you? Know someone? …” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Benjamin Riley

“BlueSky world, I'm looking for: -- US-based creatives (illustrators, film, art, but *not just writing*) -- Who radically oppose AI intrusion into education & schools -- And have created something(s) demonstrating their resistance Is that you? Know someone? …”

Primary source joemorse.substack.com ↗
Debates gaining attention

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2 experts · 8 posts · 9d ago
Eryk Salvaggio Benjamin Riley
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“There are just so many fascinating and worrisome questions to ask about this technology but all of the attention is on the dumbest possible version of them, and I don’t think that’s an accident.” evidence ↗
Eryk Salvaggio: There are just so many fascinating and worrisome questions to ask about this technology but all of the attention is on the dumbest possible version of them, and I don’t think that’s an accident.
Eryk Salvaggio: Meanwhile, problems that are solvable (not necessarily through tech) go unaddressed, because we are trapped in a structure of debates that has no correspondence to the purpose of a debate.
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