Category Archives: AI

Random quick thoughts on AI

Posted on August 11, 2026 by mkevane

In conversation with a friend….I think “unemployment” and “no paid work” are the wrong likely descriptors of 2050…. possible, but unlikely…. For it to be likely, to me, one would have to lean harder on the dystopia…. the rich and … Continue reading →

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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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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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AI productivity growth and “the economy”

Posted on September 14, 2025 by mkevane

I’m preparing for a course I am teaching, so am intending to start regularly writing on the blog as a way to livestream my thoughts. Hopefully, I will maintain momentum for a long while. My first thoughts, while reading Nordhaus’s … Continue reading →

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