They need more.
Smithsonian Magazine: An Amateur Astronomer Using Google Maps Spotted a Strange Indentation. It Turned Out to Be a Meteorite Crater From 390 Million Years Ago. That one has been added to the excellent Impact Earth crater map. I’ve shot three of those: Manicougan, Upheaval Dome, and Meteor Crater.
No doom, no utopia
In Jeff Jarvis’ They’re covering the wrong AI story, he says some anti-AI-doomers to trust are:
- Nirit Weiss-Blatt, who gave us The Weak Foundations of AI Doomsday back in May, and followed that with First They Built a Secular Apocalypse Belief System. Now They Want Religious Authority. Excerpt: “AI doomerism borrows religious structure while denying religious content. It offers ex-believers a replacement meaning system with cosmic stakes. Now, it reconnects with organized religion in seeking broader moral authority. But this is an old playbook: a small group of believers claims it alone understands the coming apocalypse, then asks everyone else to hand it centralized control.”
- Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres, who wrote The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence in First Monday. TESCREAL is “transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism.” They also say, “the current push for AGI is driven by a set of ideologies which we label the ‘second wave’ of eugenics.” I have some thoughts about eugenics as well.
You tell me
Friends and organizations I know are involved in the Pro-Human AI Coalition, which was just announced. It’s “a global effort that brings urgently needed infrastructure and resources to the work of keeping AI under human control and prioritizing public interest over corporate profit.” Should we join?
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