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Aug 20, 2024

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Approaching Singularity

Speculation about how technology might evolve beyond human capabilities.

James F. O'Brien
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Towards Data Science

The End of Required Work: Universal Basic Income and AI-Driven Prosperity

How a tax on AI work might let everyone share the imminent bounty from AI automation.

Aug 19

The End of Required Work: Universal Basic Income and AI-Driven Prosperity

Aug 19

James F. O'Brien
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AI Advances

The Matrix Revisited: Challenging Morpheus’s Red-Pill narrative

What if the tyrannical machines were actually benevolent protectors of humanity?

Apr 20

The Matrix Revisited: Challenging Morpheus’s Red-Pill narrative

Apr 20

James F. O'Brien
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Cubed

Artificial Intelligence and the future of work and living

Navigating between utopian dreams and dystopian fears

Mar 4

Artificial Intelligence and the future of work and living

Mar 4

James F. O'Brien

Controlling what you don’t understand

How do we control AI systems after they have evolved beyond human understanding?

Feb 19

Controlling what you don’t understand

Feb 19

James F. O'Brien

Can something be literally impossible to understand?

Ideas not just complex or hard to understand, but absolutely and completely beyond comprehension.

Jan 17, 2022

Can something be literally impossible to understand?

Jan 17, 2022

James F. O'Brien

Preparing for “uncomprehendable” AI

Today, we control our machines, but the reverse seems increasingly inevitable.

Feb 11, 2022

Left image, picture of sun setting between clouds. Right image, result of deep dreamming applied to the left image.

Feb 11, 2022

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