world of weird things podcast: hide your jobs, hide your art, a.i. is coming for everybody
Late last year, the long-awaited AI monster has finally awakened. It’s first victims? Blogs, news, commercial art, college essays, social media, and a functioning, civil society that can agree on a basic set of facts. And believe it or not, that was just its warmup act. We take a deep dive into what runaway software can do to a world that’s not ready for it, how to regain control, why we missed literally a century of warnings this moment was coming, and what stands in our way. Plus, an announcement about the future of WoWT.
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Articles covered or touched on in this episode…
– why the battle between hollywood writers and a.i. should matter to you
– how a.i. is ruining the web and leaving humans behind
– how our mismanaged boredom is destroying the world
– to save the world’s minds, we need to kill the nine to five job
– why wowt (still) can’t quit facebook
– we were warned: how scientists and engineers predicted today’s chaos
Related articles and further reading…
– wowt explains: what is transhumanism?
Intro/outro by Absolute Valentine, courtesy of Lazerdiscs Records
