Mary McCall Leland

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t began with an unexpected cheer when I put up a slide that read: “It’s a coup”. We can’t fight it if we can’t see it, I said, and we can’t see it if we can’t name it.
It’s not too late to stop Trump and the tech broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now | Carole Cadwalladr | The Guardian
The result could be a great concentration of wealth, and "it could become difficult for a substantial part of the population to really contribute," Amodei told us. "And that's really bad. We don't want that. The balance of power of democracy is premised on the average person having leverage through creating economic value. If that's not present, I think things become kind of scary. Inequality becomes scary. And I'm worried about it."
AI jobs danger: Sleepwalking into a white-collar bloodbath
We (the whole industry, not just OpenAI) are building a brain for the world.
The Gentle Singularity - Sam Altman
Expectations will go up, but capabilities will go up equally quickly, and we’ll all get better stuff. We will build ever-more-wonderful things for each other. People have a long-term important and curious advantage over AI: we are hard-wired to care about other people and what they think and do, and we don’t care very much about machines.
The Gentle Singularity - Sam Altman
We already hear from scientists that they are two or three times more productive than they were before AI. A
The Gentle Singularity - Sam Altman
In the 2030s, intelligence and energy—ideas, and the ability to make ideas happen—are going to become wildly abundant.
The Gentle Singularity - Sam Altman
But we now see the opposite—40% or more of published studies fail to replicate.
The Ten Warning Signs - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker
There’s a general rule here—the bigger the shift, the easier it is to miss.
The Ten Warning Signs - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker
Nearly all surveyed college students, 95%, viewed at least one type of degree or higher education credential as very or extremely valuable, according to research released Wednesday by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation. Among former students who had stopped out, 93% said the same.
College students — and those not enrolled — see the value in higher education | Higher Ed Dive
“Nothing surpasses regular exercise for promotion of healthy aging,” Dr. Topol writes, calling it “the single most effective medical intervention that we know.
‘Super Agers’ Review: Living the Good Life - WSJ
Whether as a clinician or a founder, I care about bringing real human connection back.
Ginko Raises $1.5M To Launch Doctor-Backed Digital Wellness App
“The truth? Parents are the worst at modeling behavior,” May states. "They’re on their phones, they’re on their laptops. They’re doing work — and kids are just trying to get their attention. We want to help change that and suggest unstructured play — not to punish, but to rebuild trust and connection, based on attachment science.”
Ginko Raises $1.5M To Launch Doctor-Backed Digital Wellness App
Levels helps you see how food impacts your health with AI-powered food logging, habit tracking, and smarter insights.
Levels - Unlock Your Metabolic Health
Eventually, A.I. will create plenty of new jobs — the World Economic Forum predicts that number could be as high as 78 million more jobs, even after predicted job losses.
Opinion | LinkedIn Executive: A.I. Is Coming for Entry-Level Jobs - The New York Times
Our research suggests that professionals with more advanced degrees are more likely to see their jobs disrupted than those without.
Opinion | LinkedIn Executive: A.I. Is Coming for Entry-Level Jobs - The New York Times
pium haze of amazing AI-provided luxuries and entertainment
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generous basic income
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People start to see where this is headed. In a few years, almost everything will be done by AIs and robots. Like an impoverished country sitting atop giant oil fields, almost all government revenue will come from taxing (or perhaps nationalizing) the AI companies.51
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As the stock market balloons, anyone who had the right kind of AI investments pulls further away from the rest of society. Many people become billionaires; billionaires become trillionaires. Wealth inequality skyrockets.
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If we look at the US Educational Pipeline to college, roughly 13 percent don’t finish high school. Another 25 percent graduate but never enroll in college. Among those who do enroll, a large share fall off before earning a degree—17.5 percent start a bachelor’s program and don’t finish, while 11.2 percent start an associate degree and don’t finish that either. In all, 66.7 percent of students—over 11 million each year—exit the race without a college credential.
The Two-Thirds Problem: Why our Educational System Fails Most Students and How We Can Fix It
Steve Wozniak’s Coffee Test—can a robot enter an unfamiliar house and make a cup of coffee?
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Ordinary people see job losses accelerating.
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e are imagining something similar, except faster because superintelligences are directing and managing the whole process.3
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On the other side of the Pacific, DeepCent-1 is making similar arguments. Both the US and China announce new Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for AIs to accommodate rapid buildup of a robot economy without the usual red tape.
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