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Undisciplined academic @ASU | Future of Being Human | AI, tech transitions & staying human | Co-author of AI and the Art of Being Human | Modem Futura podcast

 Tempe, AZ
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Joined July 2008
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Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I was impressed by Digger. Complex, multi-layered, and achieves what most other climate-focused movies fall far short of.
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Afternoon showing of Digger. Love going to the cinema on a week day and having a quiet auditorium, but this ridiculous!
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14 essential AI "I Can ..." skills every undergrad should have (Updated) futureofbeinghuman.com/p/14-…

14 essential AI "I Can ..." skills every undergrad should have (Updated)

Employers are increasingly looking for students who show good judgment with AI, can demonstrate their AI skills in an interview, and are adept at directing AI.

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When universities put out official reports that are written with AI, should they:
0%Pretend no AI was used
85%Include a note on AI use
15%Apologize and redo
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Cady Coleman@Astro_CadySep 30
🎙#TODAY - Sept 30: Celebrating #InternationalPodcastDay! "Mission: Interplanetary" is a #podcast that @2020science and I hosted, with some very special guests! Check it out! ⏬ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… (or wherever you listen) @II_ASU #space #science #podcast

Mission: Interplanetary

Science Podcast · Join Astronaut Cady Coleman and scientist/author Andrew Maynard as they explore the unique visions of those working to take us to new worlds.Mission: Interplanetary looks at the big...

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If you're following the chat around Nvidia's new safety tool, try feeding your AI the news feeds for this along with andrewmaynard.net/late-lesso… — useful contextual analysis

Late Lessons, Jensen Huang and AI

What a century of early warnings says about an engineering approach to safe AI: the EEA Late Lessons reports, Jensen Huang's views, and Andrew Maynard's work.

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@Miles_Brundage may find this interesting
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hilarious #aiemergency
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Dario Amodei is at the desk to assure that the future of humanity is safe from AI
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Jensen Huang says AI alarmism has gone too far. What does history say? futureofbeinghuman.com/p/jen…

Jensen Huang says AI alarmism has gone too far. What does history say?

I asked Claude to set Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s view of AI safety against a century of technologies that went wrong. Part 2 of 3

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Paradise desecrated: Is AI destroying the university of our dreams? And if it is, would that be such a bad thing? futureofbeinghuman.com/p/bei…

Being an Academic in an Age of AI

An edited transcript from a recent lecture given at King’s College London on being an academic — and the role of the university — in an age of AI.

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Just waiting for the unsubscribes to follow on Substack: Reasoning LLMs just want to have fun futureofbeinghuman.com/p/rea…

Reasoning LLMs just want to have fun

The stream of reasoning messages that some LLMs display are often a performance put on for the user. And so, naturally, I found myself wondering whether this performance could be parodied ...

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Much as I tried to resist, I ended up writing something about the current worries around Ai and existential risk futureofbeinghuman.com/p/wil…

Will AI really kill us all? No. But it’s also complicated.

Given the alarmist headlines on AI and existential risk that are currently flying around, I dug out an old 2018 Risk Bites video on AI risk. It’s still relevant, eight years later.

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We are seeing a new trend in submissions to @arxiv (and presumably to conferences and journals): Authors submitting papers whose contents they likely do not understand. 1/
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Still mulling over what I think of the reasoning AI satire mull.chat - some of the responses are gold though!

Mull

A chat window that shows its work. All of it.

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I know it is a lot for instructors who never asked for AI to change things, but if you teach and have not updated your expectations over the last 6 months over what AI can do (a lot more), its error rate (a lot less), and its ubiquity among your students (near total), you need to
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Whose Future Is It? Unpacking Zuckerberg's recent AI essay/manifesto youtube.com/watch?v=FAUqPmUq…

Whose Future Is It? Unpacking Zuckerberg's AI Essay

Mark Zuckerberg's essay "The Future is for Everyone" lays out Meta'...

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After eleven years with the Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society, I'm excited to be moving to ASU's Thunderbird School of Global Management! futureofbeinghuman.com/p/a-q…

A quick piece of personal news

After eleven years with the Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society, I'm excited to be moving to ASU's Thunderbird School of Global Management

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Seems like a good time to reshare this video: 5 rules to avoid becoming a ChatGPT zombie youtube.com/watch?v=PF8bfs3Q…

5 rules to avoid becoming a ChatGPT zombie

How do you know ChatGPT isn't quietly rotting your brain? Here are ...

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What we can learn with AI by NOT trying to learn: Sometimes, throwing productivity goals, purpose, and measurable outcomes out of the window might be the most powerful way to thrive in a changing world. New Substack article: futureofbeinghuman.com/p/wha…

What we can learn with AI by NOT trying to learn

Sometimes, throwing productivity goals, purpose, and measurable outcomes out of the window might be the most powerful way to thrive in a changing world

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An AI Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face — What Now? youtu.be/7XwQlgUdiVs?si=cOKQ…

An AI Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face — What Now?

The AI escape scenario has been a staple of thought experiments and...

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