Josh Levinger

Vint Cerf at the @medialab.bsky.social 40th Anniversary. Make sure to ask “what could possibly go wrong” when unleashing technology into the hands of everyone on earth. We need to have accountability and auditability for the billions of bots online, and probably humans too.

Arts are still central to the future at the Media Lab. Alex McDowell shared his reminiscence of creating the visual language for Minority Report by borrowing from research here. So much of what they predicted has come into being, including a lot of the dystopia. Maybe not those gloves though.

Vint Cerf at the @medialab.bsky.social 40th Anniversary. Make sure to ask “what could possibly go wrong” when unleashing technology into the hands of everyone on earth. We need to have accountability and auditability for the billions of bots online, and probably humans too.

Marshall Ganz: “with all due respect to math, an AI doesn’t have any idea of what it is to be human; to have emotion, and a body, to fear death.” Being human is a big deal. We shouldn’t forget it as we become fascinated with machines. We need to stay pro-human.

Vint Cerf at the @medialab.bsky.social 40th Anniversary. Make sure to ask “what could possibly go wrong” when unleashing technology into the hands of everyone on earth. We need to have accountability and auditability for the billions of bots online, and probably humans too.

Discussing the “overview effect” Astronaut Mike Fincke says his favorite planet is no longer Mars, it’s Earth. Rod Roddenberry agrees, and says that we should follow the Prime Directive here at home as well.

Vint Cerf at the @medialab.bsky.social 40th Anniversary. Make sure to ask “what could possibly go wrong” when unleashing technology into the hands of everyone on earth. We need to have accountability and auditability for the billions of bots online, and probably humans too.

Discussing the “overview effect” Astronaut Mike Fincke says his favorite planet is no longer Mars, it’s Earth. Rod Roddenberry agrees, and says that we should follow the Prime Directive here at home as well.

Vint Cerf at the @medialab.bsky.social 40th Anniversary. Make sure to ask “what could possibly go wrong” when unleashing technology into the hands of everyone on earth. We need to have accountability and auditability for the billions of bots online, and probably humans too.

Humanist chaplain @gregmepstein.bsky.social reminds us that AI is a quasi-religious story with heaven and hell, all-powerful beings and vulnerable humans, and the people selling it are trying to con us into giving up our power. But our community can fight back, together. Interfaith alliance crucial.

Naming the billionaires who are stealing our future: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezo, Mark Zuckerberg, and Peter Thiel. 40 student walkouts today, more to come from @irreplaceableorg.bsky.social and the pro-human coalition.

“AI is built on stolen labor, its spits out slop and spies on neighbors!” Great chants, signs at MA Capitol by @irreplaceableorg.bsky.social We need to fight back against rampant theft of our shared intellectual history, and environmental destruction of huge data centers. The cloud runs on gas!

I’m watching mid-day TV while I wait in a car shop, and saw three ads in a row bashing “millionaire” Chris Pappas, and one with AI-generated imagery of all his stock trades. John Sununu is the son of a governor and board member of Lloyd’s of London; a real everyman… How do people fall for this?

Sam Altman replied to me on Twitter long ago, “once we invent AGI we can ask it to solve climate change for us.” Bro, we know how: just stop burning fossil fuels. Turn off the machine that runs on plagiarism and methane gas! These are not serious people. Their brains are cooked by money and power.

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton in 24 hours?! Someone kick the claw machine to reshuffle it.