How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell

A very common trope is to treat LLMs as if they were intelligent agents going out in the world and doing things. That’s just a category mistake. A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions. We have been doing this for as long a... See more

I think there are certain capabilities that we should be very cautious of, if not just rule out, for the foreseeable future.

Such as?

I guess things like recursive self-improvement. You wouldn’t want to let your little AI go off and update its own code without you having oversight. Maybe that should even be a licensed activity—you know, just like fo... See more

The ChatGPT moment transformed society's relationship with AI overnight. From my vantage point, the narrative shifted dramatically from "beware of deepfakes" to "use AI or be left behind." But both perspectives miss something fundamental: AI isn't competing with human intelligence - it's becoming part of how we think, just as writing and mathematic... See more