From Artificiality This Week * Our Gathering: Our Artificiality Summit 2025 will be held on October 23-25 in Bend, Oregon. The
AI agents are evolving with orchestration layers enabling modular, autonomous systems beyond traditional SaaS, reshaping workflows, labor, and software design.
David Wolpert warns AI networks may evolve beyond human math, creating unpredictable, emergent intelligence that defies control and comprehension.
We are dedicated to unraveling the profound impact of AI on our society, communities, workplaces, and personal lives. To truly grasp this transformation, our approach is rooted in engaging with core concepts such as critical thinking, logical analysis, and the scrutiny of underlying assumptions, principles that are essential in the realm of philosophical inquiry.
Making a good decision implies that we have some idea of what’s true. But we do not have infinite data inputs or processing capacity. We are limited by our lifetimes.
Caring machines may be the only way to scale empathy across our species.
Now that more machine learning-based AI has been deployed in more places, human skills are being replaced in finer slices with new automation technologies. What has been observed in traditional blue collar work is that not all AI is good enough to increase the value of the output.
How AI could help our reasoning when it's most flawed: aka when we're subject to cognitive biases.
Resolving a fundamental incompatibility with AI in human decision-making
Most decisions and most deciders are hybrids. Some machine, some human. The trick is to imagine all the ways that humans figure out ways around, over, and through the machine when what they really want is to make the decision themselves even if it means sacrificing accuracy.
Everyone likes to follow their intuition because it’s the ultimate act of trusting oneself.
WFH surveillance is growing but employers need to move on.
The math of COVID-19 may mean some level of opt-in tracking is vital to stop repeated outbreaks
Humans think in terms of 1,2,3,4 lots and lots, while machines think in billions.
If Clearview is normalized, we're not who we think (or hope) we are.
Why we need to keep talking about Ring and "plug-in surveillance."
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
