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Facial recognition technology to monitor the population on busy street. Generative AI
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Brendan Dixon
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October 24, 2025
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Human exceptionalism
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The Real Threat AI Poses to Us Is Created by Widespread Abuse

In If Anyone Builds It, Yudkowsky and Soares are not really grappling with this problem
Brendan Dixon
October 24, 2025
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Human exceptionalism
The authors really believe in AI doom. Soares has stopped contributing to a retirement plan. I show that the serious problem is NOT superintelligence. Read More ›
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Core of the machine / 3D illustration of complex futuristic science fiction brain nucleus machinery background
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Brendan Dixon
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October 23, 2025
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Panpsychism, Philosophy of Mind
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Can an AI Really Develop a Mind of Its Own?

Specifically, can an AI develop a mind with its own goals and desires, capable of plans and strategies — as the authors of If Anyone Builds It believe?
Brendan Dixon
October 23, 2025
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Panpsychism, Philosophy of Mind
Even if we adopt a materialist view of the mind, I believe I can show why it is not possible for a machine to develop a mind. Read More ›
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Neural network of a dog brain with big data and artificial intelligence circuit board in the head of a blue canine, outlining concepts of a digital brain, computer Generative AI stock illustration
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Brendan Dixon
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October 22, 2025
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)
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Fearing the Terminator: Does Current Tech Warrant the Doomsaying?

People will worry less if they understand why the text generation programs not only do not think but in fact cannot think
Brendan Dixon
October 22, 2025
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)
Bottom line: Text generative AIs do not capture meaning. They capture relationships which approximate meaning well enough to be useful. Read More ›
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Cybersecurity big data, robots ai innovation idea
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Brendan Dixon
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October 21, 2025
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Fearing the Terminator, Missing the Obvious

In Part 1 of my review of the new AI Doom book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, we look at how the authors first developed the underlying idea
Brendan Dixon
October 21, 2025
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)
By 2020, authors Yudlowsky and Soares were already Doomers but the rapid success of ChatGPT and similar models heightened their worries. Read More ›