Summer News Roundup: Storm Clouds on the AI Horizon
Private credit’s woes, AI’s pattern blind spot, Meta’s creepy glasses, DeepSeek’s chips, ChatGPT’s work mode, and agentic AI’s energy profligacy.
Topic
ChatGPT
A collection of 41 issues
AI’s “Ethics-Washing”: Philosophers Follow Futurists Into the AI Business
We’re in desperate need of candor
It’s a Bot World Now
Pondering the implications
Musk Stopped by Legal TKO, and Revisiting the Melt-Up
Two puzzlers that have nothing else in common.
Three Puzzle Pieces in the AI Mosaic
Reasons for concern as reality intrudes
On AI’s Gremlins and Goblins
Unfortunately, reality is spookier
Warning Signs Flashing Insistently at OpenAI
These risks aren’t shy about announcing themselves
AI and the Question of Trust
How to escape “human enfeeblement”
Welcome to the Lightning Round
Thunder to follow
AI Gets Contextual and Pragmatic, Among Other Things
And will there still be a market for your organs (not the musical kind) in the age of Dark Enlightenment?