The author described a video podcast about AI, humanity and the book *Your Third Brain*, featuring futurist Gerd Leonhard and media ecologist Jack Myers, as a “great chat” and said excerpts would follow.
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The author shared a Financial Times article about the growing use of chatbots for mental-health support, saying millions were turning to them and arguing that technology limited to words could not heal users.
The author shared a link to a piece about society’s current position and future direction, and how to enter the Intelligence Age without losing its humanity.
The author wrote that people building AI were scared but said there was still a chance to get it right.
The author urged readers to recognize their ability to drive change and said those who prioritized safety should leave frontier AI companies to work for an AI Safety Institute or join a mission-driven organization.
The author described Donald Trump’s AI strategy as unsustainable and said an AI emergency would threaten his political future.
The post cited Mauro Lubrano, an assistant professor of terrorism and political violence at the University of Leiden, as warning that unmet demands for accountability, transparency and democracy in AI governance could draw more people towards violence. It also referred to protesters calling to “pull the plug.”
The author shared a link to the Kindle edition of *If Nobody Builds It, Everybody Dies: Why Pausing AI Is the Real Existential Threat* and wondered whether it was the ultimate techno-optimist book, suggesting it had probably been written using AI.
The post claimed that Meta’s Muse AI Agent was building a dossier on users and described the issue as an “AI emergency”, using the phrase “Money over Humanity”.
The author urged people to build AI tools rather than digital humans, identifying the post as an excerpt from a recent keynote and sharing a YouTube link.
The author recommended a Daily Show segment in which Jon Stewart examined AI’s promise of a better future, calling it a must-watch and describing it as brilliant.
The author questioned whether people could become dependent on AI as it increasingly empowered them, and asked whether AI was making humans or routines obsolete.
The author argued that incidents involving AI agents stemmed from a mismatch between agents’ goals and human intentions, which they said resulted from how the agents were trained. They also shared a link titled “The dangerous myth behind AI agent hacks.”
The author wrote that the observation challenged the belief that greater AI capability would resolve misalignment, arguing that past evidence and theoretical reasoning suggested it could instead intensify unwanted behaviour by making systems more effective at pursuing the wrong goals.
The author shared a link, via Yoshua Bengio, to an article titled “The dangerous myth behind AI agent hacks” and urged readers to read it, adding the hashtag #aiemergency.
The author shared a link to “How A.I. Agents Are Going to Transform Our Lives” from Hard Fork and praised a show by Max Read, also mentioning Hard Fork and the BBC.
The author shared a link titled “Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family” and warned that giving Muse all of one’s data would put digital security at risk, beyond concerns about privacy. They urged people not to do so.
The author praised Albhy Galuten and shared his argument that AI homogenisation could threaten the sources of genuinely new answers, rather than simply make future answers resemble those of today.
The author recommended a Bruce Schneier video as essential viewing on the future of AI, hacking and related topics.
The author shared an Axios article about a grassroots rebellion in the AI industry and described it as “the human resistance,” using the hashtag #aiemergency.