Casey NewtonMay 9, 2023

What does “good” coverage of AI mean to you? I wrote about how the disparate views that very smart people have about existential risk are making it hard to calibrate how to cover advancements in artificial intelligence.

https://www.platformer.news/p/why-im-having-trouble-covering-ai

Why I'm having trouble covering AI

If you believe that the most serious risks from AI are real, should you write about anything else?

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@caseynewton For me it would include assiduous puncturing of the hype. E.g., during the "blockchain will change everything" wave, the journalists most useful to me were looking at what it actually did versus the claims. And also looking at the incentives for people making the big claims. I'd also like to hear more from the nuanced people, the foxes rather than the hedgehogs.
May 9, 2023 at 2:53amWeb