Scott Robinson
Norway, Getting It Right
The state of AI in the US is precarious; it looms dark over the economy, as the forecast of 300 million jobs vanishing in 10 years enters...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 5, 20233 min read
Human vs. AI Art
My youngest daughter is a fine arts major, deeply immersed in her training to become an animator. She is incensed at the intrusion of AI...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 5, 20232 min read
Is AI Beyond Regulation?
Most reasonable people will agree that AI, unregulated (as it currently is), is a very dangerous thing. The question becomes, how is AI...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 5, 20233 min read
AI and Humanity's Self-Image
Among the subtler threats of AI is its potential to diminish what it means to be human. Already, AI is able to present itself in such...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 5, 202311 min read
2035
Among those putting forth predictions of the AI future is the Pew Research Center, which published a June 2023 report summarizing the ...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 5, 20235 min read
A Soul for AI
In the hands-on world that’s coming, the biggest and most impactful threats of AI aren’t likely to be cataclysmic; they’re more probably...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 5, 20233 min read
A New Cognitive Age
The potential for a merger between humanity and AI is so great that its supporters have created a new paradigm for it in the schema of...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 4, 20234 min read
ChatGPT in the Chinese Room
One of the great thought experiments of the modern age cuts right to the heart of the AI discourse: can machines ever think like humans?...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 4, 20234 min read
This Time It's Different
Let's begin with a reiteration of a point made prominently in this book’s predecessor: that point being, This time it’s different. That’s...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 11, 20236 min read
Skynet Fever
New technology has taken the world stage. And, as always happens when new technology takes the world stage, a loud chorus has arisen,...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 11, 20235 min read
Surviving AI in the Workplace
Above, I’ve confessed my anxiety about the future my children and grandchildren are facing, a future fraught with few certainties, other...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 10, 20233 min read
Player Piano
It was 1952, and the idea of the modern digital computer was only a few years old – and unknown to the general public. But a newly-minted...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 10, 20235 min read
My Grandpa's Grandpa's Grandchild's Grandchild's Grandchild's Grandchild
Above, we noted the prediction that all human labor – every job humans currently do – will be taken over by AI in the next 12 decades....
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Scott Robinson
Jun 10, 20237 min read
In the Service of Humankind
There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the potential pitfalls presented by the rapid rise of AI, and justly so: AI is the...
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Scott Robinson
May 29, 20233 min read
Tender Loving Care
Faced with the possibility of malevolent AI that does us harm – or AI that freely complies when humans use it to harm other humans – what...
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Scott Robinson
May 29, 20234 min read
Setting Fire to an Already-Toxic Social Media
One place where AI is very likely to punch, and punch hard, is in the domain of social media, which has done plenty of damage to society...
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Scott Robinson
May 29, 20233 min read
The End of an Epoch
It is not overstating to say that humanity is at a crossroads. It has been long anticipated, and goes by several names: the Fourth...
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Scott Robinson
May 27, 20234 min read
The Wise Old AI on the Mountain
The general truth that “anything a human being can do, AI can do better” is in the water supply, and of course that isn’t quite true....
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Scott Robinson
May 27, 20237 min read
Frase's Four Futures
Peter Frase offers a variation on Robert Costanza’s AI outcomes matrix in his book Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. It bears a lot of...
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Scott Robinson
May 26, 20235 min read
Analogical AI, or Lakoff's Rule
What else should we be thinking about, when AI gets analogical? This necessary step toward artificial general intelligence – connecting a...
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