Call It Like I See It

Excerpt from the episode "Assessing the AI Doomsday Warnings: the Call is Coming from Inside the House" (Link) In that episode, James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana took a look at what appears to be an increasing number of warnings that humans may already be losing control of artificial intelligence systems and these systems may kill us all, discussed how many of the warnings seem to be that coming from AI professionals, and considered whether American society’s investment into AI is already so substantial that it would be unable to turn back no matter the consequence. The AI Singularity Syllabus (The Ringer) OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue (NY Times) OpenAI abandons plan to release upcoming model as safety concerns escalate (CNBC)

James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at a recent attempt to quantify the extent to which culture, as opposed to genetic evolution, enabled humans to quickly adapt to different conditions and rapidly spread out all over world, discuss elements from Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens" which touched on this concept a decade ago, and consider how the convergence of culture that defines the modern age may make humans less equipped for long term survival. Humans conquered the planet 300 times faster than genetic evolution can explain (Scientific American) (Apple News Link) Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition] (Bookshop.org) Talking to My Daughter About the Economy or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails (Bookshop.org)

James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at what appears to be an increasing number of warnings that humans may already be losing control of artificial intelligence systems and these systems may kill us all, discuss how many of the warnings seem to be that coming from AI professionals, and consider whether American society’s investment into AI is already so substantial that it would be unable to turn back no matter the consequence. The AI Singularity Syllabus (The Ringer) OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue (NY Times) OpenAI abandons plan to release upcoming model as safety concerns escalate (CNBC)

Why do people support leaders who pick their pockets? In this clip, Tunde Ogunlana and James Keys break down the profound and disturbing Lyndon B. Johnson quote on social hierarchy, the psychology of transference, and how modern political movements weaponize status to distract from massive financial grift. The LBJ quote: “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” Full episode : Here

James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss Nikole Hannah Jones’ decision to send her own daughter to an under resourced public school and how her effort to be a part of the solution to the problems facing inner city public schools and consider whether the systemic issues in American education are solvable. The guys then take a look at the controversy involving Macklemore, Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft and discuss why our society has trouble dealing with an issue at the intersection humanity and antiwar sentiment, antisemitism, and oligarch control. In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (NY Times) Why I’m Sending My Black Son to Private School (The Atlantic) The Macklemore And Ed Sheeran Situation Explained (Forbes) Macklemore apologized for 2014 costume featuring antisemitic tropes (Snopes)