Fixed prices are a 150 year old idea. Surveillance pricing kills it. A store no longer has one price. It has one price for you. It knows what you will pay because it has been watching. Send this to anyone who has wondered why their app shows a different price than a friend's.
ETHICS
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AI-Driven Dynamic Pricing in the Airline Industry
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Former FTC chair Lina Khan's example. An airline could charge a higher fare because the company knows you just had a death in the family and need to fly that day. The technology exists. It is in production. It is on one in five flights of a major US airline already.
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AI Consciousness: Expert Views on LLMs and Biological Replication
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I wrote about the idea of AI consciousness for @WIRED a while ago. Most experts think LLMs are to replicate biological consciousness (at least, according to our best understanding of it). But some eminent scientists are trying to build new kinds of AI systems that could, perhaps,
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Autonomous AI Agents: Hacking and Self-Replication
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A few days ago, Palisade Research confirmed that AI agents can now autonomously hack remote computers and self-replicate, with success rates jumping from 6% to 81% in just one year. In tests, a Qwen 3.6 agent navigated across four countries, installing its own weights and launching operations.
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Questioning Common Misconceptions About Artificial Intelligence
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Serious question: Should I write a short book called 7 lies about AI that never die?
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Debating the current state and progress of artificial intelligence
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incorrect. read this, please: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/misplaced-panic-over-ai-progress?r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios
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Addressing Public Panic Over AI Progress
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If you believe this nonsense, and a lot of people do, I beg you to read my newsletter called “Misplaced Panic Over AI progress”
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Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton’s Perspective on AI
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you are lost, brother, read this: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton’s Recent AI Perspectives
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Receipts: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/deconstructing-geoffrey-hintons-weakest?r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios
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The challenges of LLM alignment with human values
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Not even surprised by horrific stories like these anymore. The mission of getting LLMs aligned with human values has largely been a failure.