In addition, organizations can’t simply import AIs as if they were just hiring additional people. Work flows and even the shape of the organizations need to change to fit AIs. Something similar happened as organizations electrified a century ago. One could not introduce electric motors, telegrams, lights, telephones, into a company without changing... See more

The second thing to keep in mind about AIs is that their ability to answer questions is probably the least important thing about them. Getting answers is how we will use them at first, but their real power is in something we call spatial intelligence – their ability to simulate, render, generate, and manage the 3D world. It is a genuine superpower... See more

And none of these species of AI – not one – will think like a human. All of them produce alien intelligences. Even as they approach consciousness, they will be alien, almost as if they are artificial alien beings.

The third thing to keep in mind about AIs is that you are not late.

This will change in the future, but if we are evidence based, the data so far is that the real harms of AI are almost nil, while the imagined harms are astronomical. If we base our policies for AIs on the reasonable fact that they are varied and heterogenous, and their benefits are more than answering questions, and that so far we have no evidence... See more