Shawn Powers

The researchers emphasized that their findings highlight the need for better safeguards and more thoughtful implementation rather than avoiding AI in mental health entirely

how easily it can enter uncanny valley territory that kids aren't prepared to understand.

bait engagement.

We assemble things based on what we experience, what we’ve dreamed, what we’ve seen, heard or desire. AI is also just assembling the building blocks from what it’s seen and what it’s asked to do.” Both human and artificial creativity, according to this view, could be fundamentally rooted in an incomplete understanding of the world: We’re all doing ... See more

extremely powerful technology is being built by a tiny set of private sector actors and we know that existing regulatory approaches fail to deliver to the public the level of transparency that seems ideal for generating the evidence needed for the world to confront rapidly developing world-changing technology. Papers like this confront that problem... See more

pro-extinctionism bound up with bizarre techno-utopian fantasies of inaugurating a fundamentally new epoch in cosmic history—one in which Homo sapiens will be disempowered, marginalized, and eventually eliminated

They then transfer this understanding about the relative goodness of analog information onto the digital world.

we live in an era in which we've largely been conditioned to believe that more data - and more information in general - is always and inevitably a good thing.