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Why we should 'fight like hell' against Big AI
Tech journalist Karen Hao, who once worked in Silicon Valley as an engineer, is sounding the alarm on holding AI giants accountable. She argues people need to push back against massive companies that are 'consolidating a historic amount of economic and political power, terraforming our earth, reshaping our geopolitics' as well as our lives and work.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/karen-hao-empire-of-ai-9.7142134?cmp=rss

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Bruce Simpson, Ph.D.

@cbcbusiness_mirror There is a reason economics is called "The dismal science". https://danielhomola.com/m%20&%20e/ai/your-bridge-to-wealth-is-being-pulled-up/

Your bridge to wealth is being pulled up

For two centuries, the credential system gave intelligence a route to heritable capital. Artificial intelligence is closing that route. This essay builds the argument from first principles - with probability theory, interactive simulations, and a prediction specific enough to be falsifiable - and puts a number on the window that remains.

Daniel Homola