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David Deutsch on AGI, Alignment and Existential Risk
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
David Deutsch is a phenomenal thinker on AI, Physics and Philosophy. But his views on AI risk puzzled me. So I sat down with him to discuss in more de...
The Jagged Frontier: Why Focusing on AGI Misses The Point
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI is jagged - superhuman at some things, terrible at others.This is why talk of "AGI" is so misleading. Focusing only on failures misses 90...
The Turing Test Is Flawed. Here's Why.
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I thought the Turing Test was between a person and a computer. But Turing’s paper seems to imply it’s between a man and a woman, and then a comput...
Could We Really Lose Control of AI?
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Suppose an AI “went rogue”.Couldn’t we just switch it off?How would it keep itself running without human help or an army of robots?And why would...
ChatGPT Can Now Use a Computer. Like a Boomer…
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Altman said 2025 is the year of agents.Andrej Karpathy said they’re slop.The AI Village is a team of AIs working together to do real work, like ...
Is Spirituality Necessary For AGI? Kenneth Cukier
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kenneth Cukier is Deputy Executive Editor at The Economist and co-author of "Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil." ...
Oxford Philosophers Found a FLAW in the AI Doom Argument?
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The explicit goal of OpenAI, DeepMind and others is to create AGI.This is insanely risky.It keeps me up at night.AIs smarter than us might:🚨Resist ...
Does ChatGPT have a mind?
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do large language models like ChatGPT actually understand what they're saying? Can AI systems have beliefs, desires, or even consciousness? Philos...
AI Powered Ransomware Is Coming. Tony Anscombe, ESET.
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
LLMs like ChatGPT are incredibly useful for coding. So naturally they can also be useful for hacking. Tony Anscombe explains how his cybersecurity com...
Humans Are NOT The Most Intelligent Species. Professor Peter Bentley
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Different species solve different problems, so how can we say one is smarter than another? To me, it's intuitively obvious that humans are the most in...