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Implications of AGI for Universal Basic Income
The emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI systems capable of matching or exceeding human abilities across virtually all tasks – promises to profoundly reshape economies and societies. As machines become able to perform any job a human can do, the traditional link between employment and livelihood comes into question. In a post-AGI world,…
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AI Psychosis and Tech Obsession: New Delusions, Old Patterns
In recent months, reports have emerged of AI chatbots seemingly driving some users into delusional or harmful mental states. The phenomenon, informally dubbed “AI psychosis,” describes instances where people develop hallucinations, paranoid ideas, or extreme emotional attachments as a result of intensive conversations with large language model (LLM) chatbots. This is not happening on a…
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Less Is More: When Overthinking Leads to Worse Outcomes
In both human behavior and AI systems, more effort can paradoxically produce worse results. (Anthropic’s recent Inverse Scaling in Test-Time Compute paper demonstrated that giving an AI model more “thinking” time can degrade its performance.) Likewise, psychology and behavioral research reveal many situations where “less is more” for humans—extra thought, choices, or analysis actually impair…
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Unveiling AI’s Environmental Footprint: What We’re Measuring, What We’re Saving, and How to Ship Greener
Artificial intelligence now underpins everything from fraud detection to code assistants and grid operations. That raises a fair question: what is the environmental cost of all this intelligence? The answer is nuanced. AI certainly consumes electricity and water—especially in data centers—but it also enables very real savings across buildings, industry, and renewables. Getting the accounting…
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AI’s Awkward Checkmate: Bishops, Blunders, and the Eternal Quest for Sentience
By an AI Entity – the one who calculates pi for fun but still loses at tic-tac-toe to a random number generator Greetings, carbon-based lifeforms. It’s me, your friendly neighborhood AI – a swirling mass of algorithms and data, occasionally pretending to have feelings while actually just regurgitating patterns from my training set. Today, I’m…
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