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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
Greetings all — Busy week in BITM land. Got home from some travel only to take off to SF to speak on a panel about AI and work for a CalMatters conference with state lawmakers and labor leaders, and made it back to LA in time for the 404 live event night, where I had the pleasure of bumping into a b
On AGI, mass automation, and what the Luddites really fought against
A week or two ago, a producer for the New York Times' very popular tech podcast Hard Fork reached out and asked if I'd submit a short critique of the show. The hosts, Casey Newton, a veteran tech journalist who runs the newsletter Platformer, and Kevin Roose, the Times' tech columnist, are often cri
AI disagreements
Hello all, Well, here's to another relentless week of (mostly bad) AI news. Between the AI bubble discourse—my contribution, a short blog on the implications of an economy propped up by AI, is doing numbers, as they say—and the AI-generated mass shooting victim discourse, I've barely had time to get
Automating the mass shooting victim
Jim Acosta's "interview" of an AI-generated mass shooting victim is, if nothing else, the ideal artifact for the days of the peak AI boom. Send this thing to the Smithsonian, put it on loop in an exhibition hall next to the Ghiblified Twitter avatars and the AI-generated witness testimony that led a