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Writing and RECording what’s on my mind, regularly: media, technology, creativity, the end of civilization as we know it, credible reasons for optimism, etc.. 🔴
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AI Companies are Hiding Behind "The Market's Invisible Hand" (opens the original)
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UN General Assembly Digital Cooperation Day: Opening Remarks - September 21st, 2026Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the United Nations General Assembly’s Digital Cooperation Day. I want to thank the UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies for making this happen. I’m grateful to be speaking to all of you, including Under-Secretary-General Amandeep Singh Gill.Today is about coming together and collectively recognizing that when it comes to how frontier digital technology is designed,
An Antidote to AI Pessimism (opens the original)
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Transcript of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s remarks at the TIME100 AI Impact Dinner, September 14th 2026.Thanks everyone, and thanks to Time Magazine for having me here tonight.So, this last week, a lot of people started talking about the potential pitfalls of AI, and I think that’s healthy, because communicating is how we find solutions, right? But there’s something I’ve been noticing in a bunch of these conversations — and that’s pessimism. People are saying things like:“We’re so fucked. These AI bus
Will AI Destroy Human Creativity? (opens the original)
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Will AI destroy human creativity?I hate to say it, but I kind of think it could, if we continue down the path we’re on and if we don’t course correct at all. If we say, yeah, it’s perfectly legal for AI companies to just use anybody’s work, anybody’s idea, anybody’s content, anybody’s data, and build their products out of all of that human stuff without asking permission, without offering compensation. Yeah, I think that eventually lands us in a world where there’s no longer any economic incenti
Why Tyrants Love Pessimists (opens the original)
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Transcript from video:Tyrants love it when you’re pessimistic. Trump, Musk, Putin, guys like that, they want you to think there’s no hope, that nothing can be done, that humanity is just rotten to its core. If the whole world just sucks and everybody’s bad, then you can’t blame Trump for being corrupt. Everyone’s corrupt.Optimism, of course, has sort of grown corny. You’re afraid if you sound optimistic, you’ll sound naive or you’ll sound ignorant. But it’s actually the opposite: pessimism is th
Dear AI Companies...The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop (opens the original)
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Transcript from the video:Dear AI Companies, the Doom Trolling Needs to StopThis is something that Cal Newport said recently. He’s a tech thinker and writer that I like. He’s saying that all this doom and gloom you hear from AI companies is basically a sales tactic: when these companies talk about a bloodbath of job loss, or AI psychosis, or AI being used by criminals or terrorists or even dictators to do terrible things, build bioweapons or denigrate democracy. Or when they talk about the quote
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