Monthly Archives: October 2025

AI as an existential threat – Kevane preliminary draft

Posted on October 20, 2025 by mkevane
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“What can it do?” A living list of computational problems that deep learning/AI/neural nets can or seems likely to “do” (at varying cost and efficacy)

Posted on October 3, 2025 by mkevane
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Reading August-September 2025

Posted on October 3, 2025 by mkevane

For some reason in leading up to the start of teaching classes in Sept. I did a lot of skim-reading in the last two months rather than complete book. But worthwhile a usual to keep track. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains … Continue reading →

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The typical popular sci-fi version of AI posing an existential risk?

Posted on October 1, 2025 by mkevane

Plenty of science-fiction stories and movies have as plot the defeat of a super-intelligent and autonomous AI that poses an existential threat to humans. In the usual backstory, the AI at some point developed goals that seemingly impelled the AI … Continue reading →

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