Pretty Please Stop Ignoring AI News
If you hate AI, fair, fine. Criticism is a form of engagement.
But what happens when billions of people live in fractured realities with horse blinders on?
What happens when some groups harvest more knowledge and bear more fruit but then hoard it?
The fruit rots, and people go hungry.
This blog post isn’t the place for the conversations surrounding data centers, water usage, or diluting creativity. All of that is a lovely, worthwhile fight and makes sense.
But even the smartest people in AI are saying, “WE DON’T KNOW.” Because we don’t!!!
We don't have ANY guarantee BUT the very ugly reality that becomes inevitable when millions of brains, hearts, voices, and souls self-exclude.
THAT is the danger right there!!!
That is the 1984 / zombie-apocalypse / Idiocracy future most of us fear.
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Do whimsical page breaks inspire you to keep reading? Let’s find out.
You don’t have to love it or like it at this point, or ANY point in the future, but to be frank, AI isn’t going away, at least in SOME capacity.
We can argue about that capacity, but the arguments here are for everything BEFORE that.
We are all already tapped into dozens, if not hundreds, of digital, spiritual, and psychological algorithms every DAY.
And what do most people do in fear? fight, flight, fawn.
fight: throw rocks at the machine without checking who built it, who owns it, or what the machine actually does
flight: close the tab. mute the word. refuse the tool. congrats, the decisions still happen without you
fawn: assume the people building the future must understand it better than you do and hand them your critical thinking accordingly
*blue text is courtesy of ChatGPT with thinking effort set to “medium”
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The best medicine for fear is embodied knowledge.
em BODY. (there's an em dash joke in here somewhere—the only joke I'll make here).
Embodied knowledge comes from integrating the cerebral and the sensational.
The last word isn’t even correct denotation-wise, but it's an embodiment of the pursuit of knowledge and being open to being wrong.
Ya know, like with science and research and spirituality and intuition.
or wait...consciousness?
It's almost like this one really salient piece of all of our lives connects us somehow.
Oh wait, it's kind of spooky how we all dip in and out of consciousness as we become aware of it.
Wasn't there a double-slit experiment about that? Pretty sure we learned that in middle school, 8th grade maybe?
Okay, that experiment has become a lil diluted as of late. I’ll look into it later.
Btw, that’s the same middle school where we had to cower under the science lab seats during lockdown because the high school down the sidewalk was in danger.
Anywho…
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Digression is human.
Resilience is human.
Maybe ignorance is too, but I hope for all our sakes, we become allergic.
When’s the last time you intentionally changed your “For You” page?
When’s the last time you read something you vehemently disagreed with and turned it around a few times like a Rubik’s cube?
What were you wrong about last week?
What’s one piece of whimsy you've experienced lately?
These are all AI problems, too.
Models are creating rubrics and answer keys for things we don’t know how to answer ourselves.
And therein lies the crux.
The people most worried about AI often say they want to protect something distinctly human: judgment, creativity, attention, curiosity, discernment.
Then please use those things.
Please, for the loving kindness, grace, and compassion of the object(s) or entities you believe in, keep reading and dancing.
ENGAGE WITH LIFE AND REALITY, especially the parts you do not understand.
The conversation needs your active participation!!!
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Find balance where you can and embrace it where you cannot.
But do not ignore.
That's the root of ignorant, right?
interesting...
xoxo k
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p.s. the ones still reading must want to know more of my current thoughts, and I am humbled.
I am not an AI expert, though I have written foreign government curricula on the subject.
I am not a doomer. I am not an evangelist.
I am confused, and that's okay! Because it's our shared reality at the moment!
I still need to Google what effective altruism (EA) refers to, though I have some cursory knowledge of each concept separately.
What I know for sure is that Twitter/X is at least a decade ahead of the rest of the internet and most neighborhoods when it comes to world news and REAL researchers and REAL people openly sharing their knowledge, yes, sometimes in the form of shitposts.
Do them a service and pay them a modicum of attention.
NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF PEOPLE WORTH FOLLOWING (will be updated every now and then):
Ethan Mollick — Wharton professor who regularly talks about what we DON’T KNOW YET regarding generative AI, work, education, and organizational change.
One Useful ThingMo Gawdat — former Google X executive who has become increasingly vocal about AI risk, labor disruption, concentrated power, and the need for human adaptation. His public framing has also evolved over time, which makes his earlier and later work useful to compare.
Mo Gawdat
OTHER AI RESOURCES:
Stanford AI Index — annual data on AI capabilities, adoption, investment, research, labor, policy, safety, and public attitudes.
2026 AI IndexPew Research Center: Artificial Intelligence — survey research on public attitudes, AI use, trust, concern, knowledge, and expectations.
Pew AI researchStanford Institute for Human-Centered AI — interdisciplinary research on AI development, policy, social impact, and human-centered design.
Stanford HAIDAIR Institute — independent research on AI accountability, labor, bias, inequality, and social harms.
DAIR InstituteOECD AI resources — international research and policy work on AI governance, employment, economic effects, regulation, and public participation.
OECD Artificial IntelligenceUNESCO AI resources — research and guidance on AI ethics, education, literacy, governance, and global development.
UNESCO Artificial IntelligenceCentre for Effective Altruism — primary-source material on effective altruism, a movement that has had significant influence on parts of the AI safety and existential-risk conversation.
Centre for Effective AltruismOne Useful Thing — Ethan Mollick’s ongoing writing about generative AI research, experiments, education, and workplace use.
One Useful ThingReuters Technology — useful for checking AI company announcements, policy developments, lawsuits, regulation, and industry claims against straight reporting.
Reuters Technology
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My favorite children's book, in case you're still hanging out here
