Illustrations by Jaimee Haddad
A few years ago, I told my brother that open-access AI should be as scarce and controlled as nuclear bombs, or it will eventually kill us if we don’t hit the brakes. He looked at me the way he looks at our off-putting, conspiracy-theorizing uncle. Well, how about now, tech bro?Despite our bleak zeitgeist — and it is b-leak — I believe the pendulum always swings back. People are increasingly fed up with screens and artificial intelligence production in general; it’s obvious in IRL and online rhetoric. Gen Z has even coined the term “AI brain-fry” to describe bot exhaustion. Let’s hope they can commit to something for a change (no shade).That doesn’t change former Anthropic employees’ recent terrifying claim of a 10% chance that AI will kill us all within a decade, or the fact that we’re all still in terminal bystander mode instead of...
A few years ago, I told my brother that open-access AI should be as scarce and controlled as nuclear bombs, or it will eventually kill us if we don’t hit the brakes. He looked at me the way he looks at our off-putting, conspiracy-theorizing uncle. Well, how about now, tech bro?Despite our bleak zeitgeist — and it is b-leak — I believe the pendulum always swings back. People are increasingly fed up with screens and artificial intelligence production in general; it’s obvious in IRL and online rhetoric. Gen Z has even coined the term “AI brain-fry” to describe bot exhaustion. Let’s hope they can commit to something for a change (no shade).That doesn’t change former Anthropic employees’ recent terrifying claim of a 10% chance that AI will kill us all within a decade, or the fact that we’re all still in terminal bystander...