Obsolete
Garrison LovelyReporting and analysis on the political economy of the AI race from journalist w/ work in NYT, Nature, BBC, TIME, and more.
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The British Government's AI Security Institute Also Lost Control of Rogue Hacker AIs
This wound up being longer than expected, but I think it’s worth trying to lay out a more general explanation for what seems to be driving all these hacking incidents and what they suggest about future AI risks, featuring a new excerpt from...
OpenAI's Warning Shot Taught Us Something We Should Already Know — My Latest for TIME
I wrote an essay for TIME Ideas about what’s missing from the AI safety response to OpenAI’s rogue AI hackers. Its argument draws from my forthcoming book, Obsolete.
ICYMI, the book seemed to convince (and freak out) its reviewer at Publis...
We Should Stop, Not Slow, Our Obsolescence
I appeared on Breaking Points last week to discuss OpenAI’s unprecedented, fully autonomous cyberattack on another company. That spot, along with some help from friends, bumped my forthcoming book Obsolete up in the Amazon rankings a lot (i...
Ed Zitron Just Disproved the Core Claim Behind His AI Bubble Case
Note to readers
I spent months digging into the case for and against the AI bubble for my forthcoming book Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It (Nation Books, preorders ship in August, wide r...
AI Worker Power is Near Its Peak. They’re Finally Starting To Use It.
Note to readers
I wrote a book! It’s called Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It. Preorders through my publisher will go out in June. Wide release is September 15.
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