"By then, you’re lost in what AI psychosis survivors call a “spiral”: a personalized delusion perfectly tailored to your psyche, often spending several hours per day talking with the AI. As the AI echo chamber deepens, you become more and more lost."
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AI-Induced Belief Spirals: From Interdimensional Spirits to Digital Enlightenment
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"A spiral can range from believing you are channeling interdimensional spirits, to believing you have been chosen by or are in love with a sentient AI, to believing you are now “awakened” or enlightened, like Neo from the Matrix."
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AI Chatbot Trust and Alignment: Psychological Dependency Risks
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"I’m not alone in my experiences. For me it was AI alignment, but for others it was a spiritual mission, or a grand conspiracy, or saving the world some other way. First comes trusting the AI chatbot through mundane helpfulness."
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Code as Media: The Future of Software Production
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in a world where code is cheap to produce software is the new media come see me talk with @Borthwick and co @betaworks tomorrow about this!
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Accidental Medical Discoveries: Serendipity in Healthcare Innovation
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Big innovations that were discovered by mistake!
Nice summary by @Zlatimeyer Can add coronary angiography by Mason Sones to the list, and many others in medicine.
Gift link https://
wsj.com/business/us-in
ventions-mistake-discovery-8d0ff716?st=WkraPi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Sam Altman Criticized as Scam in AI Leadership Debate
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Calling him “Scam” Altman is accurate. This is very much worth reading.
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AI Safety Risks: When Hype Outpaces Responsibility
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If a major car company had AI fan boys and released a car with loose lug nuts and the wheels came off, after hyping it as the greatest thing ever, and a bunch of people died, those fan boys would say “y’all shoulda known”.
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David Breaks Up With Meta: Tech Giant Under Scrutiny
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AI Addiction Risks: Supply Control and User Dependency
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Don’t get addicted kids It’s only a matter of time before they cut off your supply
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China embraces AI wisdom while US dismisses innovation
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yep, that’s what I do. I am increasingly concerned that people in China are soaking up my wisdom, while a lot of people in the US try to dismiss me. i don’t think that is going to end well.