Tag: Nate Soares

Facial recognition technology to monitor the population on busy street. Generative AI

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Brendan Dixon
Date
October 24, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Human exceptionalism

Tagged
Adam Becker, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Featured, If Anyone Builds It (book 2025), Lael Brainard, Michael Wilner, More of Everything Forever (2025), Nate Soares}

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.

Core of the machine / 3D illustration of complex futuristic science fiction brain nucleus machinery background

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Brendan Dixon
Date
October 23, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Panpsychism, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
David Chalmers, Eliezer Yudkowsky, ELIZA (chatbot), Emergence (philosophy), Epiphenomenalism, If Anyone Builds It (book 2025), Joseph Weizenbaum, Nate Soares, Rogerian psychotherapy}

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.

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
Date
October 22, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It (book 2025), Nate Soares, Tokens in AI}

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.

Cybersecurity big data, robots ai innovation idea

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Brendan Dixon
Date
October 21, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
AI Accelerationists, AI Alignment Problem (AAP), AI Doomers, Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), Effective Altruism, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, If Anyone Builds It (book 2025), John McCarthy, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Max Tegmark, Nate Soares, Peter Thiel, Rationalist community (Silicon Valley), Sam Altman, Sam Bankman-Fried}

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.