Curious Machines: my new Substack on AI and the human experience
An artist's illustration of artificial intelligence (AI), visualising the benefits and flaws of large language models. Tim West/Google DeepMind.
If you follow me here, or on LinkedIn, you’ll have noticed I’ve been writing more about AI. Not so much about how to increase your productivity 10-fold with the latest GenAI tools, but more about what this technology means for how we make sense of the world.
My interest drove me to enrol in the Center for AI Safety’s 'AI Safety, Ethics, & Society' course, which I’m finding extremely eye-opening. It also made me realise that I needed a place to write longer-form articles to explore these issues in depth.
So, I’ve started a new writing project over at Substack, Curious Machines, where I explore AI, ethics, communication, and meaning.
I just published my latest piece, 'When AI goes rogue.' It’s a look at what could happen when AI systems evade our control and pursue goals that don’t align with human welfare. Of course, the article has an obligatory reference to HAL 9000, the fictional AI in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
If you’re interested in this type of writing, take a look. If you like what you read, consider subscribing to receive future articles.
AI is here. It’s changing the way we relate to one another. I believe we need to think carefully about the kind of world we want to live in as AI becomes further integrated into the systems that structure life as we know it.
Curious Machines is a place where I try to make sense of it all.
Brendon Bosworth is a communications specialist and science communication trainer with an ever-growing interest in AI. He is the principal consultant at Human Element Communications.
