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Let's Get Real About The Problems With AI

A comprehensive index of real issues, misconceptions, and cognitive fallacies in artificial intelligence discussions.

It's identical with AI agents. They're supposedly "autonomous," but that's stretching the definition of autonomy by several light years. Even when the product is burning, the business is sinking, and employees are scrambling in full-scale crisis mode, when they're not handed an explicit goal, AI agents are as likely to spring into self-organized... See more

Automating "grunt work" seems smart. But aren't we climbing towards learned helplessness? #AutomationIrony #FutureOfWork #TechTruth

We keep climbing the stack, delegating more grunt work to our silicon minions while we ascend to ever-loftier perches of "strategic oversight." The promise is wider spans of control, higher-level thinking, liberation... See more

Here, the lesson I believe is not that we should resist AI, as Tyler rightly says, but that we should anchor its use in the irreducible tacit knowledge of human practitioners. The craftsman with decades of attention behind their choices, the nurse whose diagnostic hunch has been tempered by thousands of bodies and hours, these are not forms of... See more

Yet even here, shadows persist. If the interlocutor is silicon, what becomes of mentorship? If judgment is a distributed function, how do we teach discernment? These are not rhetorical flourishes. They are open questions. But perhaps the future of education will depend less on answers and more on attunement, on cultivating in students the... See more

Sometimes, gave the same task to multiple models, comparing and merging their outputs to maximize quality. It's like double bookkeeping: when you know something is prone to errors (or, in Al's case, hallucinations), it's best to give the same task to two or three different models. This significantly reduces the error rate.

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To handle prompt drift (where similar prompts produce inconsistent results), we started treating prompts like code - storing them in our version control system with comments explaining why certain phrases worked better than others. This prompt library has become a valuable team asset.

When Cowen turns to geopolitics, his tone tightens. Small countries, he warns, will not build their own AI systems. They will choose, American or Chinese. The implications are not just technological but cultural, epistemic, and moral. The new colonialism will be quiet. It will arrive through licensing agreements and user interfaces. It will... See more

What is ISO/IEC 42001?

ISO/IEC 42001 is an international standard that specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) within organizations. It is designed for entities providing or utilizing AI-based products or services, ensuring responsible... See more