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Passwords are stupid. Let’s get rid of them. (opens the original)
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Yup. I said it.Not just because they are inconvenient.Passwords are stupid because they are a lousy security model.They are secrets people create, reuse, forget, reset, type into the wrong site, write in a notebook, save in a Notes app, or hand to a convincing fraudster.Leaders should stop designing member and customer experiences around them.Then we tell people, even our 90 year old members, like my Mom, that all you need to do is: “Choose a stronger password.” We ask people to manage a fragile
Dear Frontier-AI People: Enough With the Nuclear-Weapon Talk (opens the original)
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I am writing this directly to the people everywhere building, funding, using, promoting, and endlessly writing about frontier AI.I see your essays about alignment. I see the debates about existential risk. I see the warnings that AI may become uncontrollable, catastrophic, or civilization-ending.Maybe some of you are right about the long-term stakes.But too much of this conversation has become intellectually lazy.AI is not a nuclear weapon.People need to stop borrowing the language of nuclear ca
This is Nuts! AI Is Not an Apocalypse Argument. It Is a Governance Challenge. (opens the original)
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Three Anthropic researchers have reportedly warned that artificial intelligence could kill all humans within the next decade. One researcher placed the probability above 10 percent, while another suggested that catastrophic outcomes could occur within only a few years. Those concerns deserve examination—but not uncritical amplification.The problem with this kind of reporting is not that catastrophic risk should never be discussed. It should. The problem is that speculative predictions are presen
Are Your Kids Safe… With AI? (opens the original)
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Shadow AI Isn’t a Tech Problem. (opens the original)
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This might actually make some of you angry, but I think it’s important enough to risk it.I’m a country boy from South Dakota, so my default is to keep things simple and sometimes a little too blunt.Too many people are letting AI do the thinking they should still be doing themselves.And the most concerning part? It’s happening in the shadows.That’s the n… Read more
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