Field Notes on Ethical AI
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Hallucinating or Elucidating? AI’s Strange, Wrong, Hyperreal Honesty
Without knowledge of how to optimize answers for ‘truth,’ they’re modeling what humans do–tell stories, hedge, prevaricate, lie, do bad math,…
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From Remix to Action: Two Ways to Read AI
…These tools have the potential to lower the cost of producing cultural artifacts, thereby increasing humans’ power to create things or…
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Will AI Flatten or Elevate Human Learning?
“While cognitive offloading with AI reduces people’s higher thinking abilities, thoughtful integration of ‘extraheric AI’—which nudges, questions, and challenges users—can substantially…
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AI Made Me Question Everything, So I Built a Course on AI Safety
With the residue of uncertainty…, I am trying to give myself a little bit more credit for what I have achieved.
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Living in Beta: AI for Everyday Expat Life (Part 3)
[Using] AI well isn’t about replacing thinking, it’s about preserving your capacity to think where it matters most.
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Living in Beta: AI for Everyday Expat Life (Part 2)
…a long day of international travel and flight cancellations, trying to figure out what to do with more bags than fit…
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Living in Beta: AI for Everyday Expat Life (Part 1)
There are hard parts in navigating a new culture, language, and cuisine. They feel like situations where the learning curve looks…
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Chat, (you) Groveling, Pandering Toady!
OpenAI has been taking some serious flak in the past weeks about its “synthetic courtesy” to the point that Sam Altman…
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The Human Element: Verifying Knowledge Beyond the Prompt
Long-term evaluation strategies can help determine whether candidates possess a genuine understanding of their field, weeding out individuals who depend excessively…