This is a great piece: Amanda Gefter ropes in Ezequiel Di Paolo and enactivism (among others) to understand the appearance of "ghost stories" of AI systems adopting a survival instinct.

"So todayโ€™s AI systems show no evidence of having developed their own goals or desires, or the will to survive. The stories we hear are just stories or, more to the point, marketing copy."

#LLMs #enactivism #GenAI

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-tell-ourselves-scary-stories-about-ai-20260410/

Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? | Quanta Magazine

Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models.

Quanta Magazine
Revolving door
Two people step through a revolving door in Chicago. One in dark blue, the other in light.
Before they move, each already feels the turn. The door extracts their feeling going in and out..

#photography #photo #street #RevolvingDoors #Enactivism #Perception #ThirdPOV #office #motion #blur

Revolving door
Two people step through a revolving door in Chicago. One in dark blue, the other in light.
Before they move, each already feels the turn. The door extracts their feeling going in and out..

#photography #photo #street #RevolvingDoors #Enactivism #Perception #ThirdPOV #office #motion #blur