In the long term, we should not let the fear of human obsolescence deter our pursuit of technological supremacy. By winning the AI race at full throttle, we secure our…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
The Anti-Nuclear Playbook Comes for Data Centers
Half a century ago, raw emotion drove an anti-nuclear energy campaign that still stifles clean energy development in the U.S. Today, that same fear-driven playbook is being deployed in a…
Trump Completely Rejects AI “Experts” Push to ‘Pace the Frontier’
“We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins.”
UN Tries to Insert itself into Calls for AI Regulation
I’m now even more convinced of my AI drawbridge theory – incumbents using red tape to raise the drawbridge and block entry for new competitors.
OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Navier-Stokes Equation, but NYU Mathematician Alleges His Work Was Copied
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster asserts OpenAI cribbed the work he and a collaborator had done, which included significant progress toward solving the equation in August. OpenAI announced its team had solved…
Pumpkin Spice and the AI Apocalypse
Ah, autumn in America. It’s time for some of our favorite seasonal rituals: leaf-drenched pumpkin patches, foamy lattes, retro barn jackets, and yet another self-reported Anthropic AI researcher declaring to…
Why the AI Merchants of Doom are Dead Wrong
Hacking a weak computer system does not equal global doomsday.
ChatGPT Completely Nukes Kenya’s College Essay Writing Gig Economy
The Kenyan essay gig economy once brought in between $240 million to $960 million annually in gross payments. AI slaughtered that cash cow.
Bernie Sanders Proposes a “Ban Artificial Super-intelligence Act”
More evidence fear of AI is displacing the failed climate scare.
Sabine Hossenfelder: “I Was Offered Money to Tell You AI Will Kill Us”
A tangled web of murky motives, politics, underhand tactics and unexpected twists. But what else would you expect when it comes to AI?
America Doesn’t Have an AI Problem. It Has a Competitiveness Problem.
AI is no longer just a technology issue. It is an energy issue. It is a permitting issue. It is a transmission issue. It is a manufacturing issue. Increasingly, it…
Backlash Against AI Data Centers Is Real, Organic, Widespread
All the money in the world from Big Tech and their allies in Washington, D.C., won’t make a difference. Only a real and sustained demonstration that we are on the right…
Why Scandinavia Can Become the Next Epicenter of Global Data Centers
The Nordics are not just positioning themselves to win the data center race. They are assembling the energy, climate, and governance advantages that will anchor the next era of AI…
AI: Peak Demand and Peak Supply Postponed (fossil future)
Age-old fears of declining fossil fuel supply and falling demand have, once again, been upended by the engines of progress. The anti-CO2 crusade, futile and wasteful, has been set back…
America Is Selling AI Subscriptions. China Is Selling Ownership.
Export promotion is in the national interest. Policies that increase the supply of American compute, enable open models, encourage private investment, and broaden access for startups, researchers, and allies will…
Call It What It Is: Texas Didn’t Order an Audit. It Ordered a Pause.
The real test isn’t whether Texas audits these projects. It should. The test is whether the state uses that audit to build a predictable regulatory framework or simply creates an…
Artificial Ignorance: The Political Falsehoods of Leading AIs
Given the serious implications of many public policy issues, AI users should keep those realities at the forefront of their minds, verify the outputs of LLMs before trusting them, and…
Green Lament: That Trillion Dollar AI Investment Could have been Spent on Renewables
“… That $1 trillion could have been used for anything. It could have been invested in renewables. …”
It took AI 70 years to get here, so what can it do for us?
In July 1956, Carnegie Mellon’s Herb Simon and Allen Newell presented what is considered the first AI computer program at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. Called the…
Queensland and Northern Territory Openly Rebel Against Aussie Green Data Center Mandates
A meeting last Tuesday failed to secure the consensus the federal Green mandate would require.