Are you aware of Padre Pio‘s prediction that signs of world crisis in the future would be 1. Worshiping of robot and technology based methods 2. Trying to separate reproduction and birth from living women.
I believe there was one more aspect of dark force activity that Padre PO discussed and then there’s this weird prophecy, not sure if this is Padre Pio, but it runs in some Catholic circles,
That there will be a three day period of darkness and power outs and that everyone should stay inside. I don’t know that seems a little more from the mass unconscious and a product of anxiety rather than a prophecy from a holy source.
I must admit, Ross Douthat's interview with Daniel Kokotajlo freaked me out. For a few days, I felt a kind of depression , worried that there was a not insignificant chance that rogue AI might wipe out humanity, including my precious children, with some kind of virus before 2030.
However, I reached out to a friend, a Princeton graduate and software, engineer for his take, and he pointed me to Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor's "AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference." Narayanan and Kapoor don't deny that AI, especially generative AI, has made significant progress. But they also highlight how the technology is often overhyped, both by AI companies eager to generate buzz and by uncritical science journalists.
Most importantly, they make a compelling case that rogue, superintelligent AI is likely to remain firmly in the realm of science fiction. We should be more worried about what bad human actors will do with AI rather than AI itself.
I highly recommend their work to anyone trying to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to AI.
Clarity and wisdom together as usual —thank you
Are you aware of Padre Pio‘s prediction that signs of world crisis in the future would be 1. Worshiping of robot and technology based methods 2. Trying to separate reproduction and birth from living women.
I believe there was one more aspect of dark force activity that Padre PO discussed and then there’s this weird prophecy, not sure if this is Padre Pio, but it runs in some Catholic circles,
That there will be a three day period of darkness and power outs and that everyone should stay inside. I don’t know that seems a little more from the mass unconscious and a product of anxiety rather than a prophecy from a holy source.
I must admit, Ross Douthat's interview with Daniel Kokotajlo freaked me out. For a few days, I felt a kind of depression , worried that there was a not insignificant chance that rogue AI might wipe out humanity, including my precious children, with some kind of virus before 2030.
However, I reached out to a friend, a Princeton graduate and software, engineer for his take, and he pointed me to Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor's "AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference." Narayanan and Kapoor don't deny that AI, especially generative AI, has made significant progress. But they also highlight how the technology is often overhyped, both by AI companies eager to generate buzz and by uncritical science journalists.
Most importantly, they make a compelling case that rogue, superintelligent AI is likely to remain firmly in the realm of science fiction. We should be more worried about what bad human actors will do with AI rather than AI itself.
I highly recommend their work to anyone trying to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to AI.
Here is a recent article by Narayanan and Kapoor where they argue that AI should be viewed as a "normal" technology: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology