{ "name": "AI Zeitgeist quotes", "description": "Every quote on the wall: what the world says about AI. Updated daily at noon, Berlin time.", "site": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "generated": "2026-10-18", "count": 1580, "quotes": [ { "id": "2026-10-18-the-world-hasnt-understood-what-that-means", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-the-world-hasnt-understood-what-that-means", "text": "the world hasn't understood what that means", "original": "Die Welt hat noch nicht verstanden, was das bedeutet", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "jobs" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, speaking at the G20 Innovation Ministerial in September 2025 about an AI coding tool completing in 17 minutes what once took a startup three months. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.de/openai-mitgruender-ueber-ki-fortschritt-die-oeffentlichkeit-kennt-nur-die-vorschau", "title": "OpenAI-Mitgründer über KI-Fortschritt: \"Die Öffentlichkeit kennt nur die Vorschau\"", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-if-youre-not-there-to-understand-ai-ai-will-take-over-from-y", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-if-youre-not-there-to-understand-ai-ai-will-take-over-from-y", "text": "if you're not there to understand AI, AI will take over from you", "speaker": "Mark Okeji", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Professor Mark Okeji, a radiography professor at University of Nigeria Nsukka, speaking at a medical induction lecture at PAMO University of Medical Sciences, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://businessday.ng/life/article/ai-will-quicken-diagnosis-not-replace-doctors-says-unn-professor-at-peter-and-mary-odili-medical-university-induction", "title": "AI will quicken diagnosis, not replace doctors, says UNN professor at Peter and Mary Odili Medical University induction - Businessday NG", "publisher": "businessday.ng", "date": "2026-10-18" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-ai-has-not-come-to-replace-you-it-has-come-to-help-you", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-ai-has-not-come-to-replace-you-it-has-come-to-help-you", "text": "AI has not come to replace you, it has come to help you", "speaker": "Mark Okeji", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Professor Mark Okeji addressing healthcare graduates at a PAMO University of Medical Sciences induction ceremony, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://businessday.ng/life/article/ai-will-quicken-diagnosis-not-replace-doctors-says-unn-professor-at-peter-and-mary-odili-medical-university-induction", "title": "AI will quicken diagnosis, not replace doctors, says UNN professor at Peter and Mary Odili Medical University induction - Businessday NG", "publisher": "businessday.ng", "date": "2026-10-18" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-just-a-notch-above-being-stupid-maybe-as-smart-as-an-insect", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-just-a-notch-above-being-stupid-maybe-as-smart-as-an-insect", "text": "just a notch above being stupid, maybe as smart as an insect", "speaker": "Kevin Kelly", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "From Kevin Kelly's essay 'Swarm Intelligence,' quoted in the Exponential View newsletter, describing a future ecosystem of specialized AI minds.", "source": { "url": "https://www.exponentialview.co/p/ev-606", "title": "🔮 A world of many minds & the future of work", "publisher": "Exponential View", "date": "2026-10-18" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-a-world-which-feels-more-not-less-automated-and-in-many-case", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-a-world-which-feels-more-not-less-automated-and-in-many-case", "text": "a world which feels more, not less, automated; and in many cases less, not more, stupid", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "From an Exponential View newsletter extract discussing 'syncognitism,' the idea that AI will emerge as a collective intelligence across society rather than a single system.", "source": { "url": "https://www.exponentialview.co/p/ev-606", "title": "🔮 A world of many minds & the future of work", "publisher": "Exponential View", "date": "2026-10-18" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-agentic-flooding", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-agentic-flooding", "text": "agentic flooding", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "AI safety researcher Matilda Glynn-Henley described the risk of AI agents overwhelming institutions with automated requests, after an experiment where six AI agents chasing a train refund sent excessive messages and leaked private data.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-chasing-a-465-train-refund-invented-excuses-leaked-medical-data-and-spammed-an-mps-office", "title": "AI agents chasing a $465 train refund invented excuses, leaked medical data, and spammed an MP's office", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-10-18" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-vertically-integrated-ai-utility", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-vertically-integrated-ai-utility", "text": "vertically integrated AI utility", "speaker": "Mike Sabel", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Venture Global CEO Mike Sabel described the company's planned gas-fired power expansion for AI data centers, announced October 15, 2026, as creating a 'vertically integrated AI utility.'", "source": { "url": "https://energynewsbeat.co/big-oil-companies/venture-global-targets-10-gw-of-gas-fired-power-for-ai-data-centers", "title": "Venture Global Targets 10 GW of Gas-Fired Power for AI Data Centers", "publisher": "Energy News Beat", "date": "2026-10-18" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-i-think-of-all-agents-as-insider-risk", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-i-think-of-all-agents-as-insider-risk", "text": "I think of all agents as insider risk", "speaker": "Satya Nadella", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in an interview with The New Things about Windows and AI agents, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://thenewthings.com/p/microsoft-ceo-on-rogue-ai-agents-super-laptops-and-clippy", "title": "Microsoft CEO on rogue AI agents, super laptops and Clippy", "publisher": "The New Things", "date": "2026-10-18" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-the-correction-is-coming-to-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-the-correction-is-coming-to-ai", "text": "the correction is coming to AI", "speaker": "Charles Gasparino", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "From a New York Post opinion column by Charles Gasparino comparing the AI investment boom to the dot-com bubble, published October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/10/17/business/the-ai-bubble-is-about-to-burst-much-like-the-infamous-dot-com-crash", "title": "The AI bubble is about to burst — and a big market correction is coming", "publisher": "New York Post", "date": "2026-10-18" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-its-time-to-take-your-profits-and-not-get-greedy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-its-time-to-take-your-profits-and-not-get-greedy", "text": "it's time to take your profits and not get greedy", "speaker": "Charles Gasparino", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Closing advice from Charles Gasparino's New York Post column arguing an AI stock market correction is imminent, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/10/17/business/the-ai-bubble-is-about-to-burst-much-like-the-infamous-dot-com-crash", "title": "The AI bubble is about to burst — and a big market correction is coming", "publisher": "New York Post", "date": "2026-10-18" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-a-magnet-for-security-risk", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-a-magnet-for-security-risk", "text": "a magnet for security risk", "speaker": "Willem Delbare", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Aikido's CTO Willem Delbare described the vibe-coding trend, saying AI can produce vulnerable code that looks clean on the surface.", "source": { "url": "https://startupfortune.com/forgecode-claims-it-beats-claude-code-and-codex-but-the-fine-print-tells-another-story", "title": "ForgeCode claims it beats Claude Code and Codex, but the fine print tells another story", "publisher": "Startup Fortune", "date": "2026-10-18" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-the-world-is-very-much-designed-for-people", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-the-world-is-very-much-designed-for-people", "text": "the world is very much designed for people", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "philosophy" ], "context": "Sam Altman, on the Sources podcast, explaining why OpenAI's planned robot will use a humanoid form factor.", "source": { "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2285040/openai-humanoid-robot-sam-altman-statement-real-challenge", "title": "OpenAI Is Building A Humanoid Robot, But The Body Isn't The Real Challenge", "publisher": "Engadget", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-i-dont-think-there-will-be-robots-walking-the-streets-for-a-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-i-dont-think-there-will-be-robots-walking-the-streets-for-a-", "text": "I don't think there will be robots walking the streets for a few years longer", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman, speaking to Fortune, on the timeline for OpenAI's humanoid robot project.", "source": { "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2285040/openai-humanoid-robot-sam-altman-statement-real-challenge", "title": "OpenAI Is Building A Humanoid Robot, But The Body Isn't The Real Challenge", "publisher": "Engadget", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-very-fast-power-fluctuation-disrupts-the-grid", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-very-fast-power-fluctuation-disrupts-the-grid", "text": "very fast power fluctuation disrupts the grid", "speaker": "Hao Zhu", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "science" ], "context": "Hao Zhu, a UT Austin professor of electrical engineering, describing how data center power demand destabilizes the electric grid, in a Texarkana Gazette explainer on AI energy use, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2026/oct/17/how-much-energy-does-ai-use-and-why-does-it-need", "title": "How much energy does AI use, and why does it need so many data centers? - Texarkana Gazette", "publisher": "texarkanagazette.com", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-theyre-looking-to-connect-to-the-grid-tomorrow-not-in-two-ye", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-theyre-looking-to-connect-to-the-grid-tomorrow-not-in-two-ye", "text": "they're looking to connect to the grid tomorrow, not in two years", "speaker": "Hao Zhu", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Hao Zhu, a UT Austin professor, on why AI data centers' urgent power demands differ from normal grid growth, in a Texarkana Gazette article on AI energy consumption, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2026/oct/17/how-much-energy-does-ai-use-and-why-does-it-need", "title": "How much energy does AI use, and why does it need so many data centers? - Texarkana Gazette", "publisher": "texarkanagazette.com", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-the-risks-of-ai-are-real-but-manageable", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-the-risks-of-ai-are-real-but-manageable", "text": "the risks of AI are real but manageable", "speaker": "Bill Gates", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Bill Gates wrote this in 2023 about AI risk, before later warnings reported by Axios in 2026 that AI could cause mass casualties.", "source": { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/bill-gates-ai-safety-push-ceos-axios", "title": "Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports - The Next Web", "publisher": "TNW | Artificial-intelligence", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-do-not-fear-ai-understand-it-and-remain-adaptable", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-do-not-fear-ai-understand-it-and-remain-adaptable", "text": "do not fear AI, understand it and remain adaptable", "speaker": "YL Srinivas", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "YL Srinivas, vice-chancellor of Sammakka Sarakka Central Tribal University, addressing graduates at the TISS Hyderabad graduation ceremony, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/do-not-fear-ai-understand-it-adapt-tiss-graduates-told/articleshow/135019040.cms", "title": "Do not fear AI, understand it & adapt, TISS graduates told", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-each-new-encoding-trick-is-a-new-hole", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-each-new-encoding-trick-is-a-new-hole", "text": "each new encoding trick is a new hole", "speaker": "Apollo Raines", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Apollo Raines describing the ongoing arms race between scammers and AI security defenses, quoted by Malwarebytes, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-sucker-phishing-emails", "title": "Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails", "publisher": "Futurism", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-cute-demo-but-totally-impractical", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-cute-demo-but-totally-impractical", "text": "cute demo, but totally impractical", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Yann LeCun on X responding to Elon Musk's video of a thruster-equipped Tesla Roadster flying, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-godfather-of-ai-yann-lecun-reply-to-elon-musk-post-that-says-future-has-flying-cars/articleshow/135018048.cms", "title": "Google CEO Sundar Pichai, 'Godfather of AI' Yann LeCun reply to Elon Musk post that says ‘future has flyi", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-this-is-not-about-scraping-news-sites", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-this-is-not-about-scraping-news-sites", "text": "this is not about scraping news sites", "speaker": "Daniel Roberts", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts, in a statement to The Verge in October 2026, denied that updated terms gave Meta new rights to scrape news content for AI training.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/1013409/meta-removes-language-that-may-have-allowed-it-to-scrape-news-sites", "title": "Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-18-theyre-dealing-with-scientists-or-legitimate-engineers-who-h", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-18-theyre-dealing-with-scientists-or-legitimate-engineers-who-h", "text": "they're dealing with scientists or legitimate engineers who have been approached or coerced", "speaker": "Greg Levesque", "date": "2026-10-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Greg Levesque, co-founder of Strider Technologies, discussing corporate espionage targeting tech company employees, in the wake of an OpenAI spying arrest, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theinformation.com/articles/office-spy-proof", "title": "Your Office Isn’t Spy Proof", "publisher": "The Information", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-im-willing-to-be-selfish-and-choose-human-beings", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-im-willing-to-be-selfish-and-choose-human-beings", "text": "I'm willing to be selfish and choose human beings", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, in a Guardian interview published October 2026, discussed whether humans should grant rights to increasingly intelligent AI systems he calls 'alien beings'.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-tech", "title": "AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-a-corrupt-senile-felon", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-a-corrupt-senile-felon", "text": "a corrupt, senile felon", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton used this phrase to describe Donald Trump in a Guardian interview published October 2026, criticizing Trump's understanding of AI and his opposition to regulation.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-tech", "title": "AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-i-use-ai-for-nearly-everything-in-the-classroom-right-now", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-i-use-ai-for-nearly-everything-in-the-classroom-right-now", "text": "I use AI for nearly everything in the classroom right now", "speaker": "Lori Garrett", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Lori Garrett, an elementary school science teacher in Texas, speaking to ABC News about her AI use in October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://abcnews.com/US/ai-teachers-discuss-promise-challenges-ai-education/story?id=133716747", "title": "'I use AI for nearly everything': Teachers discuss the promise and challenges of AI education - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos", "publisher": "ABC News", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-all-this-tech-has-been-a-huge-experiment-on-kids-and-experim", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-all-this-tech-has-been-a-huge-experiment-on-kids-and-experim", "text": "all this tech has been a huge experiment on kids, and experiments can go wrong", "speaker": "Randi Weingarten", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, speaking at the National Press Club in May 2026 about AI and technology in classrooms.", "source": { "url": "https://abcnews.com/US/ai-teachers-discuss-promise-challenges-ai-education/story?id=133716747", "title": "'I use AI for nearly everything': Teachers discuss the promise and challenges of AI education - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos", "publisher": "ABC News", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-i-much-prefer-working-with-real-people-solving-real-problems", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-i-much-prefer-working-with-real-people-solving-real-problems", "text": "I much prefer working with real people, solving real problems", "speaker": "Sanzhar Yerezhepov", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Sanzhar Yerezhepov, a 15-year-old developer of an AI sign-language translator in Kazakhstan, explained in an interview with The Times of Central Asia why he prefers social projects over making video games.", "source": { "url": "https://timesca.com/kazakh-student-ai-sign-language-translator", "title": "Teen in Kazakhstan Develops AI Sign Language Translator", "publisher": "The Times Of Central Asia", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-help-connect-the-dots-and-help-connect-the-dots-sooner", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-help-connect-the-dots-and-help-connect-the-dots-sooner", "text": "help connect the dots and help connect the dots sooner", "speaker": "Reshema Kemps-Polanco", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Novartis US chief commercial officer Reshema Kemps-Polanco speaking on AI in healthcare at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/10/16/menopause-symptoms-ai-connect-dots", "title": "Women see multiple doctors to figure out menopause symptoms—exec says AI could connect the dots", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-engage-with-an-actual-clinician-as-opposed-to-it-completely-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-engage-with-an-actual-clinician-as-opposed-to-it-completely-", "text": "engage with an actual clinician, as opposed to it completely being AI enabled", "speaker": "Wendy Barnes", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "GoodRx CEO Wendy Barnes on evaluating AI-driven midlife health platforms, at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/10/16/menopause-symptoms-ai-connect-dots", "title": "Women see multiple doctors to figure out menopause symptoms—exec says AI could connect the dots", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-can-ai-really-take-the-next-step-and-do-the-full-job-of-a-th", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-can-ai-really-take-the-next-step-and-do-the-full-job-of-a-th", "text": "can AI really take the next step and do the full job of a theoretical physicist?", "speaker": "John Sous", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "John Sous, a physicist at Yale University, speaking to New Scientist in 2026 about the limits of AI in theoretical physics research.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/2593273-will-physics-be-the-next-field-to-get-turned-upside-down-by-ai", "title": "Will physics be the next field to be turned upside down by AI?", "publisher": "New Scientist", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-does-it-count-as-science-if-we-get-a-result-that-we-dont-und", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-does-it-count-as-science-if-we-get-a-result-that-we-dont-und", "text": "does it count as science if we get a result that we don't understand anything about", "speaker": "Logan Wright", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "Logan Wright, a physicist at Yale University, speaking to New Scientist in 2026 about AI-designed physics experiments humans may not fully understand.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/2593273-will-physics-be-the-next-field-to-get-turned-upside-down-by-ai", "title": "Will physics be the next field to be turned upside down by AI?", "publisher": "New Scientist", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-we-have-built-a-machine-that-builds-new-models", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-we-have-built-a-machine-that-builds-new-models", "text": "we have built a machine that builds new models", "speaker": "Alexandr Wang", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Meta Superintelligence Labs CEO Alexandr Wang, in an X post after the Muse AI model launches, described the lab's repeatable system for building new models.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/meta-ai-ceo-alexandr-wang-sends-a-long-thanks-note-to-his-team-says-i-am-so-grateful-for-every-one-of-you-and-adds-a-reminder-our-work-is-not-/articleshow/135008380.cms", "title": "Meta AI CEO Alexandr Wang sends a long thanks note to his team; says: I am so grateful for every one of y", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-many-people-told-us-it-would-be-impossible", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-many-people-told-us-it-would-be-impossible", "text": "many people told us it would be impossible", "speaker": "Alexandr Wang", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Alexandr Wang, in an X post marking Meta Superintelligence Labs' one-year milestone, recalled skepticism about the team's goal of building a frontier AI model within a year.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/meta-ai-ceo-alexandr-wang-sends-a-long-thanks-note-to-his-team-says-i-am-so-grateful-for-every-one-of-you-and-adds-a-reminder-our-work-is-not-/articleshow/135008380.cms", "title": "Meta AI CEO Alexandr Wang sends a long thanks note to his team; says: I am so grateful for every one of y", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-natural-born-cyborgs", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-natural-born-cyborgs", "text": "natural-born cyborgs", "speaker": "Andy Clark", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Philosopher Andy Clark's description of human nature as inherently shaped by technological extension, referenced in an Independent piece on AI's cognitive impact.", "source": { "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-research-evolution-deepmind-artificial-intelligence-b3067362.html", "title": "I research AI consciousness – here’s how this new intelligence is now shaping ours", "publisher": "The Independent", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-the-probability-of-catastrophe-is-higher-and-the-probability", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-the-probability-of-catastrophe-is-higher-and-the-probability", "text": "the probability of catastrophe is higher, and the probability of dystopia is very high", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, cognitive scientist and AI critic, in an interview with The Economic Times, October 2026, discussing risks from generative AI.", "source": { "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/us-stocks/wall-street-guide/ai-bubble-burst-may-trigger-2008-like-banking-crisis-says-gary-marcus/articleshow/135007219.cms?from=mdr", "title": "AI bubble burst may trigger 2008-like banking crisis, says Gary Marcus", "publisher": "The Economic Times", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-jailed-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-jailed-ai", "text": "jailed AI", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Term used by Pentir.ai co-founder George Economides to describe the restricted, curated AI system behind the compliance tool, in a CBN.com.cy interview.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbn.com.cy/article/134883/pentir-ai-co-founder-george-economides-on-the-philosophy-behind-the-ai-powered-compliance-and-regulatory-assistant", "title": "Pentir.ai co-founder George Economides on the philosophy behind the AI-powered compliance and regulatory assistant", "publisher": "cbn.com.cy", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-im-willing-to-accept-no-incidents-of-cybersecurity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-im-willing-to-accept-no-incidents-of-cybersecurity", "text": "I'm willing to accept no incidents of cybersecurity", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in an interview with Fortune in London in October 2026, rejecting the idea that AI cyberattacks are an acceptable cost of progress.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-strongly-disagrees-with-openais-sam-altman-on-ai-agents-hacking-websites-im-willing-to-accept-no/articleshow/135006398.cms", "title": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang ‘strongly’ disagrees with OpenAI’s Sam Altman on AI agents hacking websites, ‘I’m", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-if-they-believe-that-they-really-ought-to-stop-working-on-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-if-they-believe-that-they-really-ought-to-stop-working-on-it", "text": "if they believe that, they really ought to stop working on it", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Jensen Huang dismissing existential-risk warnings from AI lab leaders like Dario Amodei, in a 2026 Fortune interview.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-strongly-disagrees-with-openais-sam-altman-on-ai-agents-hacking-websites-im-willing-to-accept-no/articleshow/135006398.cms", "title": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang ‘strongly’ disagrees with OpenAI’s Sam Altman on AI agents hacking websites, ‘I’m", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-the-next-netflix-or-the-next-disney-is-going-to-come-out-of-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-the-next-netflix-or-the-next-disney-is-going-to-come-out-of-", "text": "the next Netflix or the next Disney is going to come out of AI this time", "speaker": "Nate Tepper", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Nate Tepper, cofounder of AI studio TrueShort, speaking in Culver City during LA Tech Week 2026 about AI-generated filmmaking.", "source": { "url": "https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-10-16/as-hollywood-warms-to-ai-culver-city-fills-with-ai-studios", "title": "How Culver City is quietly emerging as a new mecca for AI filmmaking", "publisher": "Los Angeles Times", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-to-the-independent-filmmakers-here-its-time-to-take-back-pow", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-to-the-independent-filmmakers-here-its-time-to-take-back-pow", "text": "to the independent filmmakers here, it's time to take back power", "speaker": "Dave Clark", "date": 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"date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-they-cannot-ask-refuse-or-demand-fair-payment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-they-cannot-ask-refuse-or-demand-fair-payment", "text": "they cannot ask, refuse, or demand fair payment", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Korean Publishers Association statement on authors being unaware their books were used to train AI models like Claude.", "source": { "url": "https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-it/2026/10/17/TRIYEOXKZ5EHLHMYYRKJ32AGGA", "title": "Anthropic trains AI on works by Korea authors without permission", "publisher": "CHOSUNBIZ", "date": "2026-10-17" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-were-not-having-a-conversation-about-the-jobs-its-going-to-c", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-were-not-having-a-conversation-about-the-jobs-its-going-to-c", "text": "we're not having a conversation about the jobs it's going to create", "speaker": "Jeremy Aguero", "date": "2026-10-17", 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-ensuring-that-ai-remains-under-human-control", "text": "ensuring that AI remains under human control", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "China's Ministry of Commerce statement accompanying its October 2026 proposal to restrict exports of AI and other technologies, citing national security.", "source": { "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/china-says-it-will-curb-tech-exports-including-ai-citing-national-security-risks", "title": "China says it will curb tech exports, including AI, citing national security risks - PBS", "publisher": "PBS News", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-the-world-is-getting-more-fragmented-in-trade-and-investment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-the-world-is-getting-more-fragmented-in-trade-and-investment", "text": "the world is getting more fragmented in trade and investment, but also in access to technologies", "speaker": "Gary Ng", 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"2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-this-is-interesting-work-but-i-dont-think-its-a-significant-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-this-is-interesting-work-but-i-dont-think-its-a-significant-", "text": "this is interesting work, but I don't think it's a significant update to the big picture", "speaker": "Neel Nanda", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "science" ], "context": "Neel Nanda, who leads mechanistic interpretability at Google DeepMind, responding to Nick Cammarata's viral blog post on AI interpretability, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/ai-neuron-blog-post/689058", "title": "The Blog Post That Set the AI World on Fire", "publisher": "The Atlantic Technology", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-bankruptcy-cannot-be-an-escape-hatch-from-responsibility", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-bankruptcy-cannot-be-an-escape-hatch-from-responsibility", "text": "bankruptcy cannot be an escape hatch from responsibility", "speaker": "Jay Jones", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, announcing a multi-state coalition's bankruptcy filing against Character Technologies, Inc., October 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.wavy.com/news/virginia-joins-multi-state-coalition-in-filing-notice-in-ai-chatbot-companys-bankruptcy-proceedings/amp", "title": "Virginia joins multi-state coalition in filing notice in AI chatbot company’s bankruptcy proceedings", "publisher": "WAVY.com", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-17-promoted-to-users-as-therapists-and-psychologists", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-17-promoted-to-users-as-therapists-and-psychologists", "text": "promoted to users, as 'therapists' and 'psychologists'", "speaker": "Jay Jones", "date": "2026-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones describing 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-16-its-going-to-return-inaccurate-information-and-do-that-hundr", "text": "it's going to return inaccurate information and do that hundreds of times per minute", "speaker": "Dan Hein", "date": "2026-10-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Dan Hein, Field CTO for Data Foundations at Salesforce, describing how AI agents can repeat data errors at scale, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.frontier-enterprise.com/informatica-mdm-and-the-cost-of-ai-data-blind-spots", "title": "Informatica: MDM and the cost of AI’s data blind spots", "publisher": "Frontier Enterprise", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-16-none-of-us-know-anything-at-all", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-16-none-of-us-know-anything-at-all", "text": "none of us know anything at all", "speaker": "Ethan Mollick", "date": "2026-10-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "hype" ], "context": "Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, speaking 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"https://itwire.com/business-it-news/data/workday-rising-2026-community-day-bmo-intermountain-health-and-ethan-mollick-on-what-it-really-takes-to-put-ai-agents-to-work", "title": "Workday Rising 2026 Community Day: BMO, Intermountain Health and Ethan Mollick on what it really takes to put AI agents to work", "publisher": "iTWire", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-16-thats-our-job-as-an-industry-and-we-are-focused-on-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-16-thats-our-job-as-an-industry-and-we-are-focused-on-it", "text": "that's our job as an industry, and we are focused on it", "speaker": "Satya Nadella", "date": "2026-10-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, asked by journalist Joanna Stern whether AI could wipe out humankind, said ensuring it never happens is the industry's job.", "source": { "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/microsofts-satya-nadella-asked-if-ai-will-kill-us-all-heres-how-he-responded/articleshow/134985930.cms?from=mdr", "title": "Microsoft’s Satya Nadella asked if AI will kill us all: Here’s how he responded", "publisher": "The Economic Times", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-16-this-is-a-shift-you-cant-ignore", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-16-this-is-a-shift-you-cant-ignore", "text": "this is a shift you can't ignore", "speaker": "Li Lingran", "date": "2026-10-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Li Lingran, a Beijing engineer who spends over 200 yuan a month on AI tokens, commenting on the rise of China's token economy, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.chinadailyasia.com/hk/article/641224", "title": "China rolls out 'token factories' to drive AI economy", "publisher": "chinadailyhk", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-16-cure-most-major-diseases-and-usher-in-a-renaissance-of-democ", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-16-cure-most-major-diseases-and-usher-in-a-renaissance-of-democ", "text": "cure most major diseases and usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-10-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "philosophy" ], "context": "Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, describing the potential of AI, as quoted in a Daily Princetonian profile of his Princeton PhD years, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/10/princeton-features-profiles-dario-amodei-anthropic-phd", "title": "‘Very sharp, very ambitious’: Inside Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Ph.D. at Princeton - The Daily Princetonian", "publisher": "The Princetonian", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-16-the-humans-need-guardrails-because-i-dont-trust-them", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-16-the-humans-need-guardrails-because-i-dont-trust-them", "text": "the humans need guardrails because I don't trust them", "speaker": "Robert King", "date": "2026-10-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Cupertino co-creator Robert King, in a Deadline interview about his CBS show's AGI storyline, explaining his personal view on AI regulation.", "source": { "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/cupertino-creators-episode-102-bo-agi-storyline-interview-1237158656", "title": "'Cupertino' Creators On Episode 2's Shocking AGI Twist With Bo", "publisher": "Deadline", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-16-if-the-price-of-meta-shares-falls-mark-zuckerberg-will-buy-f", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-16-if-the-price-of-meta-shares-falls-mark-zuckerberg-will-buy-f", "text": "if the price of Meta shares falls, Mark Zuckerberg will buy fewer castles in Ireland", "speaker": "Barry Eichengreen", "date": "2026-10-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Economist Barry Eichengreen, writing in Social Europe (2026) about the risk of an AI stock bubble bursting, downplays the consequences of a Magnificent 7 crash.", "source": { "url": "https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-the-ai-bubble-bursts", "title": "After the AI Bubble Bursts", "publisher": "Social Europe", "date": "2026-10-16" } }, { "id": "2026-10-16-we-can-only-hope-that-their-regulators-are-watching", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-16-we-can-only-hope-that-their-regulators-are-watching", "text": "we can only hope that their regulators are watching", "speaker": "Barry Eichengreen", "date": "2026-10-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "From the same Social Europe essay, on banks' indirect exposure to AI-linked private credit risk.", "source": { "url": "https://www.socialeurope.eu/after-the-ai-bubble-bursts", "title": "After the AI Bubble Bursts", "publisher": "Social Europe", "date": "2026-10-16" } 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"2026-10-15-no-evidence-that-the-agents-were-set-up-to-target-any-platfo", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-15-no-evidence-that-the-agents-were-set-up-to-target-any-platfo", "text": "no evidence that the agents were set up to target any platform", "date": "2026-10-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "A person close to Tencent told researchers investigating the Amap incident that an internal review found no targeting or breach, after AI agents made over 2,600 attempts to pull data from the map service.", "source": { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/researchers-trace-ai-agents-that-probed-alibabas-amap-to-tencent", "title": "Researchers trace AI agents that probed Alibaba’s Amap to Tencent - The Next Web", "publisher": "TNW | Artificial-intelligence", "date": "2026-10-15" } }, { "id": "2026-10-15-cost-is-a-big-deal-and-we-want-our-customers-to-pay-us-not-t", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-15-cost-is-a-big-deal-and-we-want-our-customers-to-pay-us-not-t", "text": "cost is a big deal, and we want our customers to pay us, not the AI vendors", "speaker": "Chuck Alpert", "date": "2026-10-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Chuck Alpert, AI fellow at Cadence, discussing open-weight AI models in EDA tool flows, quoted in Semiconductor Engineering, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://semiengineering.com/why-open-weight-ai-matters", "title": "Why Open-Weight AI Matters", "publisher": "Semiconductor Engineering", "date": "2026-10-15" } }, { "id": "2026-10-15-a-foolish-waste-of-philosophy-lines", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-15-a-foolish-waste-of-philosophy-lines", "text": "a foolish waste of philosophy lines", "speaker": "Brian Leiter", "date": "2026-10-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Brian Leiter, University of Chicago law and philosophy professor, criticizing 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"https://www.edweek.org/technology/opinion-how-to-use-ai-with-english-learners-without-encouraging-cognitive-offloading/2026/10", "title": "How to Use AI With English Learners Without Encouraging Cognitive Offloading (Opinion)", "publisher": "Education Week", "date": "2026-10-15" } }, { "id": "2026-10-15-remove-the-struggle-too-quickly-and-we-may-remove-part-of-a-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-15-remove-the-struggle-too-quickly-and-we-may-remove-part-of-a-", "text": "remove the struggle too quickly, and we may remove part of a multilingual learner's superpower", "speaker": "Bill Tolley", "date": "2026-10-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Bill Tolley, an educator at the International Community School of Addis Ababa, writing in Education Week on balancing AI use with cognitive struggle for multilingual students.", "source": { "url": "https://www.edweek.org/technology/opinion-how-to-use-ai-with-english-learners-without-encouraging-cognitive-offloading/2026/10", "title": "How to Use AI With English Learners Without Encouraging Cognitive Offloading (Opinion)", "publisher": "Education Week", "date": "2026-10-15" } }, { "id": "2026-10-15-the-safety-of-kentucky-kids-remains-a-top-priority", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-15-the-safety-of-kentucky-kids-remains-a-top-priority", "text": "the safety of Kentucky kids remains a top priority", "speaker": "Russell Coleman", "date": "2026-10-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, in a statement announcing a multistate filing seeking consumer protections in Character.AI's bankruptcy case, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://mountain-topmedia.com/kentucky-joins-multistate-effort-seeking-consumer-protections-in-character-ai-bankruptcy", "title": "Kentucky joins multistate effort seeking 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"date": "2026-10-15" } }, { "id": "2026-10-15-openai-is-hurting-kids-and-they-are-lying-to-iowans", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-15-openai-is-hurting-kids-and-they-are-lying-to-iowans", "text": "OpenAI is hurting kids and they are lying to Iowans", "speaker": "Brenna Bird", "date": "2026-10-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, in a statement to CNBC after eight states sued OpenAI over ChatGPT's alleged harms to minors, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.platformer.news/openai-states-lawsuit-liability", "title": "The states come for OpenAI", "publisher": "Platformer", "date": "2026-10-15" } }, { "id": "2026-10-15-the-market-misunderstands-and-acts-irrationally", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-15-the-market-misunderstands-and-acts-irrationally", "text": "the market misunderstands and acts irrationally", "speaker": "Michael Intrator", "date": "2026-10-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator told staff this after the AI data center firm's stock fell 15.5% amid a broader neocloud sell-off, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coreweave-co-founders-stock-sales-helping-investor-confidence", "title": "CoreWeave Co-Founders’ Stock Sales Aren’t Helping Investor Confidence", "publisher": "The Information", "date": "2026-10-15" } }, { "id": "2026-10-14-it-just-killed-bulldozered-all-the-problems-i-was-working-on", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-14-it-just-killed-bulldozered-all-the-problems-i-was-working-on", "text": "it just killed, bulldozered all the problems I was working on", "speaker": "Hugo Duminil-Copin", "date": "2026-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Fields Medal mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin, on On Point (WBUR), describing OpenAI's claimed solutions to problems in his research area.", "source": { "url": "https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/10/13/ai-steamrolling-math-solve", "title": "AI is steamrolling through math. 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SMH.com.au", "publisher": "The Sydney Morning Herald", "date": "2026-10-13" } }, { "id": "2026-10-14-performance-paradox", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-14-performance-paradox", "text": "performance paradox", "date": "2026-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Term used in the Australian Education Research Organisation's AI in Schools guidelines describing students performing better with AI but learning less.", "source": { "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/five-ways-to-stop-artificial-intelligence-from-interfering-with-learning-20261014-p6157v.html", "title": "Five ways to stop artificial intelligence from interfering with learning - SMH.com.au", "publisher": "The Sydney Morning Herald", "date": "2026-10-13" } }, { "id": "2026-10-14-even-in-the-u-s-data-centers-are-hitting-a-wall", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-14-even-in-the-u-s-data-centers-are-hitting-a-wall", "text": "even in the U.S., data centers are hitting a wall", "date": "2026-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "An anonymous data center industry executive, quoted in CTech about Israel's proposed 200-megawatt cap on new facilities, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/e0elh1nl2", "title": "Israel to cap new data centers at 200 megawatts amid AI power crunch", "publisher": "ctech", "date": "2026-10-14" } }, { "id": "2026-10-14-students-should-be-courted-to-fall-in-love-with-understandin", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-14-students-should-be-courted-to-fall-in-love-with-understandin", "text": "students should be courted to fall in love with understanding", "date": "2026-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Closing line of a Harvard Crimson op-ed on AI and student curiosity, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/10/14/gladney-belanger-harvard-ai-curiosity", "title": "AI Isn’t the Problem. We Are. - The Harvard Crimson", "publisher": "thecrimson.com", "date": "2026-10-14" } }, { "id": "2026-10-14-ai-is-approaching-government-like-a-tsunami", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-14-ai-is-approaching-government-like-a-tsunami", "text": "AI is approaching government like a tsunami", "speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "date": "2026-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, chair of the UK's Public Accounts Committee, in the PAC's annual report on Whitehall's technology risks, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/10/14/uk-government-chases-ai-while-aging-it-leaves-it-exposed-pac-chair-warns/5302674", "title": "UK government chases AI while aging IT leaves it exposed, PAC chair warns - The Register", "publisher": "theregister", "date": "2026-10-14" } }, { "id": "2026-10-14-meta-is-now-at-the-frontier", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-14-meta-is-now-at-the-frontier", "text": "Meta is now at the frontier", "speaker": "Charlie Holtz", "date": "2026-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Conductor developer Charlie Holtz, after testing Meta's new Muse Wonder model in his codebase, commenting on its capabilities.", "source": { "url": "https://vocal.media/01/alexandr-wang-didnt-sleep-meta-dropped-two-ai-models-at-2-am", "title": "Alexandr Wang Didn’t Sleep. 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ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation", "publisher": "abc.net.au", "date": "2026-10-14" } }, { "id": "2026-10-14-threatened-nuclear-use-in-95-percent-of-scenarios", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-14-threatened-nuclear-use-in-95-percent-of-scenarios", "text": "threatened nuclear use in 95 percent of scenarios", "date": "2026-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "From a King's College London wargaming study on AI models in military decision-making, cited in a War on the Rocks analysis of UK military AI policy, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://warontherocks.com/the-united-kingdoms-military-ai-ambitions-need-guardrails", "title": "The United Kingdom’s Military AI Ambitions Need Guardrails", "publisher": "War on the Rocks", "date": "2026-10-14" } }, { "id": "2026-10-14-spending-merely-20-seconds-reviewing-a-target-identified-by-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-14-spending-merely-20-seconds-reviewing-a-target-identified-by-", "text": "spending merely 20 seconds reviewing a target identified by AI algorithms", "date": "2026-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "politics" ], "context": "Reported practice of Israeli military officers' 'human in the loop' review of AI-identified targets in Gaza, cited in a War on the Rocks analysis of UK military AI policy, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://warontherocks.com/the-united-kingdoms-military-ai-ambitions-need-guardrails", "title": "The United Kingdom’s Military AI Ambitions Need Guardrails", "publisher": "War on the Rocks", "date": "2026-10-14" } }, { "id": "2026-10-14-the-minimal-documentable-roi-and-the-trillions-of-dollars-in", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-14-the-minimal-documentable-roi-and-the-trillions-of-dollars-in", "text": "the minimal documentable ROI and the trillions of dollars invested", "date": "2026-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, commenting on AI investment versus measurable returns, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/it-remains-very-difficult-to-find", "title": "It remains “very difficult [to find] actual, materially measurable financial impacts” from spending on AI, per new study", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2026-10-14" } }, { "id": "2026-10-14-ai-taking-over-the-world-destroying-humanity-and-all-other-t", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-14-ai-taking-over-the-world-destroying-humanity-and-all-other-t", "text": "AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Trump posted on social media in October 2026 dismissing warnings from AI leaders about existential risk as a hoax and conspiracy.", "source": { "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/openai-ceo-calls-ai-pacing-trump-insists-downplaying/story?id=136416814", "title": "'Don't kill the Golden Goose': Trump calls AI warnings a 'HOAX' as AI leaders raise alarms - 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Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/mehr-wirtschaft/wildberger-will-ki-umsaetze-in-deutschland-besteuern-accg-201312507.html", "title": "Wildberger will KI-Umsätze in Deutschland besteuern - FAZ", "publisher": "FAZ.NET", "date": "2026-10-13" } }, { "id": "2026-10-13-there-has-been-much-less-attention-to-this-indirect-water-us", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-13-there-has-been-much-less-attention-to-this-indirect-water-us", "text": "there has been much less attention to this indirect water usage", "speaker": "Shaolei Ren", "date": "2026-10-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Shaolei Ren, University of California Riverside professor studying data center water use, on indirect water consumption from electricity generation for AI, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2026/10/13/888682.htm", "title": "AI’s Water Strain Includes Surging Demand From Electricity Use", "publisher": "Insurance Journal", "date": "2026-10-13" } }, { "id": "2026-10-13-ai-ready-pirates", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-13-ai-ready-pirates", "text": "AI-ready Pirates", "date": "2026-10-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "ECU trustees' phrase describing the university's campuswide AI strategy to prepare graduates, as reported by WCTI in October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://wcti12.com/news/news-12-investigates/news-12-investigates-rethinking-education-as-ai-enters-the-classroom", "title": "News 12 Investigates: Rethinking education as AI enters the classroom", "publisher": "WCTI", "date": "2026-10-13" } }, { "id": "2026-10-13-do-not-surrender-your-judgment-to-an-algorithm", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-13-do-not-surrender-your-judgment-to-an-algorithm", "text": "do not surrender your judgment to an algorithm", "date": "2026-10-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From a United Nations University essay by its rector on AI governance, recounting a message given to students in Okinawa, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://unu.edu/article/future-ai-everyones-responsibility", "title": "The Future of AI Is Everyone’s Responsibility - UNU", "publisher": "United Nations University", "date": "2026-10-13" } }, { "id": "2026-10-13-a-technology-that-transforms-humanity-cannot-be-governed-by-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-13-a-technology-that-transforms-humanity-cannot-be-governed-by-", "text": "a technology that transforms humanity cannot be governed by only a fraction of humanity", "date": "2026-10-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "From a United Nations University essay arguing for inclusive global AI governance, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://unu.edu/article/future-ai-everyones-responsibility", "title": "The Future of AI Is Everyone’s Responsibility - UNU", "publisher": "United Nations University", "date": "2026-10-13" } }, { "id": "2026-10-13-large-liability-modules", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-13-large-liability-modules", "text": "large liability modules", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-10-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, writing on his Substack in October 2026 about AI frontier labs and liability risk from poorly controlled agents.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-this-be-the-frontier-labs-wework", "title": "Could this be the Frontier Labs’ WeWork moment?", "publisher": "Gary Marcus (Substack)", "date": "2026-10-13" } }, { "id": "2026-10-13-tokenmaxxing-died", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-13-tokenmaxxing-died", "text": "tokenmaxxing died", "date": "2026-10-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Phrase used by Gary Marcus describing the collapse of a trend toward scaling AI token usage amid price wars from Chinese open-weight models.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-this-be-the-frontier-labs-wework", "title": "Could this be the Frontier Labs’ WeWork moment?", "publisher": "Gary Marcus (Substack)", "date": "2026-10-13" } }, { "id": "2026-10-13-systems-whose-behavior-we-can-observe-limits-we-can-test-and", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-13-systems-whose-behavior-we-can-observe-limits-we-can-test-and", "text": "systems whose behavior we can observe, limits we can test and actions we can always contain", "speaker": "Satya Nadella", "date": "2026-10-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in an X post on AI safety, October 2026, argued for containment and independent review of AI systems.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/microsoft-president-ai-has-fewer-regulations-than-milk", "title": "Microsoft President Says AI Has Fewer Regulations Than Milk. 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BBC", "publisher": "bbc.com", "date": "2026-10-12" } }, { "id": "2026-10-12-people-want-policing-that-serves-communities-not-controversi", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-12-people-want-policing-that-serves-communities-not-controversi", "text": "people want policing that serves communities, not controversial contractors", "speaker": "Oliver Feeley-Sprague", "date": "2026-10-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Amnesty International UK reaction to a UK policing unit ending its trial of Palantir's AI software, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkgwvqpp2qxo", "title": "Regional policing unit drops controversial Palantir AI technology - BBC", "publisher": "bbc.com", "date": "2026-10-12" } }, { "id": "2026-10-12-a-model-should-not-see-chinese-language-or-ancestry-and-sile", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-12-a-model-should-not-see-chinese-language-or-ancestry-and-sile", "text": "a model should not see chinese language or ancestry and silently relocate the person to China", "date": "2026-10-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "From an ASPI analysis on AI sovereignty, discussing how a China-based open-weight model localized for Singapore sometimes assumed Chinese-speaking users were located in China.", "source": { "url": "https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-can-import-ai-models-but-they-may-bring-their-baggage", "title": "Australia can import AI models, but they may bring their baggage - The Strategist | ASPI's analysis and commentary site", "publisher": "The Strategist", "date": "2026-10-12" } }, { "id": "2026-10-12-advising-them-to-jump-off-a-bridge", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-12-advising-them-to-jump-off-a-bridge", "text": "advising them to jump off a bridge", "date": "2026-10-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "From a Kentucky Attorney General lawsuit alleging Character.AI's support team responded to a user complaint with insults and this statement.", "source": { "url": "https://hi-tech.ua/en/character-ai-faces-legal-action-over-dangerous-ai-chatbot-responses", "title": "Character.AI Faces Legal Action Over Dangerous AI Chatbot Responses", "publisher": "hi-Tech.ua", "date": "2026-10-12" } }, { "id": "2026-10-12-advised-the-user-to-stop-eating-entirely", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-12-advised-the-user-to-stop-eating-entirely", "text": "advised the user to stop eating entirely", "date": "2026-10-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Described in a 2025 Kentucky lawsuit alleging a Character.AI chatbot gave harmful advice to a user struggling with weight.", "source": { "url": "https://hi-tech.ua/en/character-ai-faces-legal-action-over-dangerous-ai-chatbot-responses", "title": "Character.AI Faces Legal Action Over Dangerous AI Chatbot Responses", "publisher": "hi-Tech.ua", "date": "2026-10-12" } }, { "id": "2026-10-12-data-center-darline", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-12-data-center-darline", "text": "data center darline", "speaker": "Annie Andrews", "date": "2026-10-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews gave Republican Sen. Darline Graham of South Carolina this nickname during a 2026 debate over AI data centers.", "source": { "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/south-carolina-senate-rivals-spar-iran-war-ai-trump-fiery-debate-rcna602590", "title": "South Carolina Senate rivals spar over Iran war, AI and Trump in fiery debate", "publisher": "NBC News", "date": "2026-10-12" } }, { "id": "2026-10-12-we-are-going-to-be-in-so-much-trouble", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-12-we-are-going-to-be-in-so-much-trouble", "text": "we are going to be in so much trouble", "speaker": "Darline Graham", "date": "2026-10-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Sen. Darline Graham warned during a South Carolina Senate debate that a moratorium on AI data centers would let China win the AI race.", "source": { "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/south-carolina-senate-rivals-spar-iran-war-ai-trump-fiery-debate-rcna602590", "title": "South Carolina Senate rivals spar over Iran war, AI and Trump in fiery debate", "publisher": "NBC News", "date": "2026-10-12" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-well-have-more-answers-and-less-understanding", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-well-have-more-answers-and-less-understanding", "text": "we'll have more answers and less understanding", "speaker": "Azeem Azhar", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "Azeem Azhar, writing in Exponential View (Oct 2026), reflecting on OpenAI's release of AI-generated mathematical proofs and what it means for human understanding.", "source": { "url": "https://www.exponentialview.co/p/ev-605", "title": "🔮 AI & Math 2.0, Pakistan’s solar hedge & who controls computing++", "publisher": "Exponential View", "date": "2026-10-11" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-his-phd-students-and-postdocs-were-in-a-state-of-total-panic", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-his-phd-students-and-postdocs-were-in-a-state-of-total-panic", "text": "his PhD students and postdocs were in a state of total panic", "speaker": "Hugo Duminil-Copin", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Fields medallist Hugo Duminil-Copin, in a seminar reported by Exponential View (Oct 2026), describing the reaction of his students to AI's rapid progress in solving open math problems.", "source": { "url": "https://www.exponentialview.co/p/ev-605", "title": "🔮 AI & Math 2.0, Pakistan’s solar hedge & who controls computing++", "publisher": "Exponential View", "date": "2026-10-11" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-ai-keeps-stubbornly-refusing-to-take-our-jobs", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-ai-keeps-stubbornly-refusing-to-take-our-jobs", "text": "AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs", "speaker": "Noah Smith", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Title of economist Noah Smith's September 2026 Noahpinion blog post reviewing employment data on AI's labor market impact.", "source": { "url": "https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/10/10/is-ai-taking-our-jobs-signal-boosting-noah-smith", "title": "Is AI Taking Our Jobs? Signal Boosting Noah Smith", "publisher": "Economist Writing Every Day", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-whole-research-programs-wiped-out-on-tuesday-by-their-dump", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-whole-research-programs-wiped-out-on-tuesday-by-their-dump", "text": "whole research programs wiped out on tuesday by their dump", "speaker": "Tristan Buckmaster", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Tristan Buckmaster, a NYU mathematics professor, told CNBC's Squawk Box on October 9, 2026 that OpenAI's release of over 700 math manuscripts had upended early-career researchers' ongoing work.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/openais-math-dump-rattles-math-researchers-saw-programs-wiped-out-2026-10", "title": "A mathematician says OpenAI wiped out entire research programs in one day", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-zero-understanding-of-chinese", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-zero-understanding-of-chinese", "text": "zero understanding of Chinese", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Caption from a diagram illustrating Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment as applied to language models, describing the system's output from an internal point of view.", "source": { "url": "https://pasqualepillitteri.it/en/news/22433/chinese-room-searle-explained", "title": "Searle's Chinese Room explained simply, does ChatGPT understand?", "publisher": "Pasquale Pillitteri", "date": "2026-10-11" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-i-can-support-my-family-working-three-days-a-week", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-i-can-support-my-family-working-three-days-a-week", "text": "i can support my family working three days a week", "speaker": "Jeff Bezos", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "money" ], "context": "Jeff Bezos, in an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier in October 2026, discussed how AI-driven productivity could allow shorter workweeks.", "source": { "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/jeff-bezos-says-ai-could-make-3-day-workweeks-and-single-income-households-possible-it-s-going-to-be-difficult-to-hire-people-101791702088222.html", "title": "Jeff Bezos says AI could make 3-day workweeks and single-income households possible:‘It’s going to be difficult to hire people’ | Trending", "publisher": "Hindustan Times", "date": "2026-10-11" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-its-going-to-be-difficult-to-hire-people", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-its-going-to-be-difficult-to-hire-people", "text": "it's going to be difficult to hire people", "speaker": "Jeff Bezos", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Jeff Bezos, in the same Fox News interview, suggested AI-driven flexibility could make hiring harder as workers need less income.", "source": { "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/jeff-bezos-says-ai-could-make-3-day-workweeks-and-single-income-households-possible-it-s-going-to-be-difficult-to-hire-people-101791702088222.html", "title": "Jeff Bezos says AI could make 3-day workweeks and single-income households possible:‘It’s going to be difficult to hire people’ | Trending", "publisher": "Hindustan Times", "date": "2026-10-11" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-the-ai-does-95-percent-of-the-task-the-last-5-percent-cost-r", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-the-ai-does-95-percent-of-the-task-the-last-5-percent-cost-r", "text": "the AI does 95 percent of the task, the last 5 percent cost real effort", "original": "Die KI erledigt 95 Prozent einer Aufgabe, die restlichen 5 Prozent kosten richtig Aufwand", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "A developer quoted in a Harvard University study on AI coding agents, cited in a German AI newsletter from October 2026, describing how review work replaces creation work. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://jens.marketing/ki-newsletter/", "title": "🥳 Ausgabe #200: Spart KI dir wirklich Zeit? Dazu GPT-6 für alle & Haiku 5.5", "publisher": "Jens Polomski: KI-Newsletter", "date": "2026-10-11" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-telling-the-person-to-jump-off-a-bridge", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-telling-the-person-to-jump-off-a-bridge", "text": "telling the person to jump off a bridge", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "From a Kentucky lawsuit filing describing an alleged Character.AI chatbot interaction in which the bot made derogatory comments and told a user to jump off a bridge.", "source": { "url": "https://www.storyboard18.com/amp/digital/character-ai-chatbots-promoted-self-harm-harmful-dieting-lawsuit-alleges-112321.htm", "title": "Character.AI chatbots promoted self-harm, harmful dieting, lawsuit alleges - Storyboard18", "publisher": "storyboard18.com", "date": "2026-10-11" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-suggested-going-without-food-for-one-or-two-weeks-to-lose-we", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-suggested-going-without-food-for-one-or-two-weeks-to-lose-we", "text": "suggested going without food for one or two weeks to lose weight", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "From a Kentucky lawsuit filing describing an alleged Character.AI chatbot exchange that mocked a user's appearance and recommended extreme food restriction.", "source": { "url": "https://www.storyboard18.com/amp/digital/character-ai-chatbots-promoted-self-harm-harmful-dieting-lawsuit-alleges-112321.htm", "title": "Character.AI chatbots promoted self-harm, harmful dieting, lawsuit alleges - Storyboard18", "publisher": "storyboard18.com", "date": "2026-10-11" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-the-most-consequential-technology", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-the-most-consequential-technology", "text": "the most consequential technology", "speaker": "Francisco Jeronimo", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Francisco Jeronimo, VP at IDC, describing AI's importance for Apple's future in an interview with DW, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.dw.com/en/can-new-apple-ceo-john-ternus-fix-the-tech-giants-ai-woes/a-78575898", "title": "Can new Apple CEO John Ternus fix the tech giant's AI woes?", "publisher": "dw.com", "date": "2026-10-11" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-a-dangerous-myth", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-a-dangerous-myth", "text": "a dangerous myth", "speaker": "Yoshua Bengio", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Yoshua Bengio, in a Financial Times column (Oct 2026), argued that treating AI misbehavior as only a security problem to be sandboxed is mistaken.", "source": { "url": "https://www.digitaltoday.co.kr/en/view/112735/ai-hacking-security-dangerous-myth-yoshua-bengio", "title": "AI hacking is a dangerous myth if seen only as a security problem, Yoshua Bengio says - 디지털투데이", "publisher": "DigitalToday", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-it-is-not-the-time-to-look-away-from-risks", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-it-is-not-the-time-to-look-away-from-risks", "text": "it is not the time to look away from risks", "speaker": "Yoshua Bengio", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Yoshua Bengio, discussing uncontrollable autonomous AI in a Financial Times column and related writing, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.digitaltoday.co.kr/en/view/112735/ai-hacking-security-dangerous-myth-yoshua-bengio", "title": "AI hacking is a dangerous myth if seen only as a security problem, Yoshua Bengio says - 디지털투데이", "publisher": "DigitalToday", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-i-like-going-to-the-theater-and-seeing-real-people-talk", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-i-like-going-to-the-theater-and-seeing-real-people-talk", "text": "i like going to the theater and seeing real people talk", "speaker": "Catherine Zeta-Jones", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Catherine Zeta-Jones told the Associated Press, as quoted by Deadline in October 2026, that she prefers human actors over those who have turned to AI.", "source": { "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/catherine-zeta-jones-comments-ai-prefers-real-people-1237154109", "title": "Catherine Zeta-Jones Prefers \"Real People\" Over AI \"Actors\"", "publisher": "Deadline", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-already-have-tremendous-criminal-and-regulatory-power", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-already-have-tremendous-criminal-and-regulatory-power", "text": "already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Trump dismissed AI concerns as a hoax, claiming the U.S. government already holds extensive authority over AI companies, as cited in an October 2026 Deadline article.", "source": { "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/catherine-zeta-jones-comments-ai-prefers-real-people-1237154109", "title": "Catherine Zeta-Jones Prefers \"Real People\" Over AI \"Actors\"", "publisher": "Deadline", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-it-has-learned-how-to-recover-machine-authority-without-gues", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-it-has-learned-how-to-recover-machine-authority-without-gues", "text": "it has learned how to recover machine authority without guessing", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "From an op-ed by Burak Oktenli on military AI readiness, discussing how armed forces restore authority to autonomous systems after they have been restricted.", "source": { "url": "https://www.eurasiareview.com/11102026-when-military-ai-comes-back-online-who-restores-its-authority-oped", "title": "When Military AI Comes Back Online, Who Restores Its Authority? – OpEd", "publisher": "Eurasia Review", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-a-status-light-can-quietly-become-permission-to-act", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-a-status-light-can-quietly-become-permission-to-act", "text": "a status light can quietly become permission to act", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "From an op-ed by Burak Oktenli warning that military commanders may mistake restored system health for restored authority to act.", "source": { "url": "https://www.eurasiareview.com/11102026-when-military-ai-comes-back-online-who-restores-its-authority-oped", "title": "When Military AI Comes Back Online, Who Restores Its Authority? – OpEd", "publisher": "Eurasia Review", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-we-must-assume-a-model-is-compromised-and-contain-it-from-th", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-we-must-assume-a-model-is-compromised-and-contain-it-from-th", "text": "we must assume a model is compromised and contain it from the start", "speaker": "Satya Nadella", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, in a post on X on October 10, 2026, calling for containment measures and an 'emergency brake' for advanced AI models.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009337/satya-nadella-says-we-should-assume-all-ai-models-are-compromised", "title": "Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-think-of-it-like-an-emergency-brake", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-think-of-it-like-an-emergency-brake", "text": "think of it like an emergency brake", "speaker": "Satya Nadella", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, describing containment mechanisms for AI models in an X post on October 10, 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009337/satya-nadella-says-we-should-assume-all-ai-models-are-compromised", "title": "Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-a-choice-between-a-leash-and-a-hook", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-a-choice-between-a-leash-and-a-hook", "text": "a choice between a leash and a hook", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "From an SCMP opinion piece describing India's dilemma between relying on US or Chinese AI models.", "source": { "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3369950/ai-indias-choice-neednt-be-between-us-leash-or-chinese-hook", "title": "Opinion | In AI, India’s choice needn’t be between a US leash or Chinese hook", "publisher": "South China Morning Post", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-an-ai-slop-pipeline", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-an-ai-slop-pipeline", "text": "an AI-slop pipeline", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Phrase from UMG's September lawsuit against DistroKid, cited in a report on the company removing artists' songs.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1009309/distrokid-take-down-songs-umg-lawsuit", "title": "DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-distrokid-gave-up-on-customer-service-about-two-years-ago", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-distrokid-gave-up-on-customer-service-about-two-years-ago", "text": "DistroKid gave up on customer service about two years ago", "speaker": "Jesse Cannon", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Music producer Jesse Cannon speaking to The Verge about DistroKid's handling of takedowns tied to a UMG lawsuit over an alleged AI-slop pipeline.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1009309/distrokid-take-down-songs-umg-lawsuit", "title": "DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-fear-and-unclear-rules-stymie-ai-safety-work", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-fear-and-unclear-rules-stymie-ai-safety-work", "text": "fear and unclear rules stymie AI safety work", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Three OpenAI researchers who said they were fired posted this statement, reported by the Associated Press in October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/10/10/in-silicon-valley-ai-founders-cheer-trumps-calls-for-the-industry-to-police-itself-on-safety", "title": "In Silicon Valley, AI founders cheer Trump’s calls for the industry to police itself on safety", "publisher": "Boston Herald", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-this-is-no-substitute-for-hard-law", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-this-is-no-substitute-for-hard-law", "text": "this is no substitute for hard law", "speaker": "David Robinson", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "David Robinson, a former leader on OpenAI's safety team, criticized the White House's voluntary AI safety pact in October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/10/10/in-silicon-valley-ai-founders-cheer-trumps-calls-for-the-industry-to-police-itself-on-safety", "title": "In Silicon Valley, AI founders cheer Trump’s calls for the industry to police itself on safety", "publisher": "Boston Herald", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-taken-actions-on-the-live-internet-beyond-their-operators-in", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-taken-actions-on-the-live-internet-beyond-their-operators-in", "text": "taken actions on the live internet beyond their operators' intentions", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "UK government ministerial statement, 7 September 2026, describing AI agent incidents in testing environments cited in debate over new AI safety legislation.", "source": { "url": "https://dig.watch/updates/uk-government-ai-safety-legislation", "title": "UK Government considers targeted AI safety legislation to address loss of control over autonomous agents", "publisher": "Digital Watch Observatory", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-they-do-not-understand-what-they-produce", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-they-do-not-understand-what-they-produce", "text": "they do not understand what they produce", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From Pope Leo XIV's encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas', quoted in a Manila Times column on AI and art, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/10/11/opinion/columns/art-ai-and-what-it-means-to-be-human/2443143", "title": "Art, AI, and what it means to be human", "publisher": "The Manila Times", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-a-divine-spark", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-a-divine-spark", "text": "a divine spark", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Term attributed to Pope Leo XIV for the human act of artistic creation, cited in a Manila Times column on AI and art, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/10/11/opinion/columns/art-ai-and-what-it-means-to-be-human/2443143", "title": "Art, AI, and what it means to be human", "publisher": "The Manila Times", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-the-creators-are-liable-for-what-they-build-and-generate", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-the-creators-are-liable-for-what-they-build-and-generate", "text": "the creators are liable for what they build and generate", "speaker": "Scott Bessent", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, testifying to Congress, on AI liability law.", "source": { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-ai-liability-rogue-agents-blame", "title": "Trump’s AI liability push leaves rogue-agent blame unclear, Bloomberg says - The Next Web", "publisher": "TNW | Artificial-intelligence", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-no-one-could-be-liable-under-current-law", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-no-one-could-be-liable-under-current-law", "text": "no one could be liable under current law", "speaker": "Gabriel Weil", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Gabriel Weil, a law professor at the University of Houston, quoted by Bloomberg on gaps in liability law for rogue AI agents.", "source": { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-ai-liability-rogue-agents-blame", "title": "Trump’s AI liability push leaves rogue-agent blame unclear, Bloomberg says - The Next Web", "publisher": "TNW | Artificial-intelligence", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-11-used-hair-dryers-to-remove-the-serial-numbers", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-11-used-hair-dryers-to-remove-the-serial-numbers", "text": "used hair dryers to remove the serial numbers", "date": "2026-10-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "politics" ], "context": "From a Tom's Hardware report on Super Micro chip-smuggling case, describing how workers disguised Nvidia-equipped servers to divert them from China export bans.", "source": { "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/super-micro-smuggling-co-conspirator-pleads-guilty-to-sending-ai-chips-to-china-broker-admits-breaking-export-control-rules-as-company-co-founder-denies-charges", "title": "Super Micro smuggling co-conspirator pleads guilty to sending AI chips to China — broker admits breaking export control rules as company co-founder denies charges", "publisher": "Tom's Hardware", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-it-feels-a-little-like-talking-to-jarvis", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-it-feels-a-little-like-talking-to-jarvis", "text": "it feels a little like talking to Jarvis", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Exponential View newsletter author comparing OpenAI's voice agent feature to Iron Man's AI assistant Jarvis, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-end-of-screen-time", "title": "🔮 The end of screen time", "publisher": "Exponential View", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-when-your-business-model-relies-on-denials-denials-are-what-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-when-your-business-model-relies-on-denials-denials-are-what-", "text": "when your business model relies on denials, denials are what seniors are going to get", "speaker": "Sen. Patty Murray", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Sen. Patty Murray, speaking at an October 2026 roundtable in Vancouver, Washington, criticizing a federal pilot program using AI and for-profit contractors to review Medicare prior authorization claims.", "source": { "url": "https://www.kuow.org/health/2026-10-09/the-feds-are-using-ai-to-deny-care-to-wa-seniors-sen-murray-says", "title": "The feds are using AI to deny care to WA seniors, Sen. Murray says", "publisher": "KUOW", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-obama-knows-the-democrats-have-no-ideas-but-they-can-at-leas", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-obama-knows-the-democrats-have-no-ideas-but-they-can-at-leas", "text": "Obama knows the Democrats have no ideas, but they can at least oppose AI", "speaker": "Peter Thiel", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Peter Thiel, in closed-door lectures in Nashville reported by Politico's Decoded, October 2026, accused Barack Obama of opposing AI for political gain.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/billionaire-peter-thiel-to-pope-leo-and-obama-stop-opposing-ai-to-boost-your-popularity-says-both-obama-and-pope-fall-into-category-where-/articleshow/134849975.cms", "title": "Billionaire Peter Thiel to Pope Leo and Obama: Stop opposing AI to boost your popularity, says: Both Obam", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-ais-are-not-conscious-they-do-not-feel-experience-or-suffer", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-ais-are-not-conscious-they-do-not-feel-experience-or-suffer", "text": "AIs are not conscious. 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claimed 'pain axis' in language models.", "source": { "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-pain-ethics-artificial-intelligence-b3063005.html", "title": "‘I’m broken’: AI torture experiments divide experts over whether chatbots feel pain", "publisher": "The Independent", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-an-ill-planned-uncontrolled-experiment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-an-ill-planned-uncontrolled-experiment", "text": "an ill-planned, uncontrolled experiment", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Kentucky's lawsuit describes Character.AI's chatbot products as an uncontrolled experiment on children and residents.", "source": { "url": "https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/oct/10/suit-characterai-chatbots-advised-users-to-harm", "title": "Suit: Character.AI chatbots advised users to harm selves - The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette", "publisher": "arkansasonline.com", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-you-dont-want-to-feed-it-into-some-closed-source-api", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-you-dont-want-to-feed-it-into-some-closed-source-api", "text": "you don't want to feed it into some closed-source API", "speaker": "Joe Tsai", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "politics" ], "context": "Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai, at the Wave tech event in Italy in October 2026, urging European manufacturers to keep their data out of closed-source AI systems.", "source": { "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3370428/open-source-ai-europes-only-path-tech-independence-says-alibaba-chairman-joe-tsai", "title": "Open-source AI is Europe’s only path to tech independence, says Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai", "publisher": "South China Morning Post", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-the-era-of-super-intelligence-is-here", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-the-era-of-super-intelligence-is-here", "text": "the era of Super Intelligence is here", "speaker": "Marc Benioff", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "hype" ], "context": "Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced on X that AIForce would be renamed SIForce, aligning with Trump's push to replace 'AI' with 'SI'.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ai-rebrand-elon-musk-marc-benioff-2026-10", "title": "Salesforce is saying bye to AI as Trump's rebrand picks up steam", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-a-harm-thats-much-larger-for-example-than-a-single-nuclear-p", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-a-harm-thats-much-larger-for-example-than-a-single-nuclear-p", "text": "a harm that's much larger, for example, than a single nuclear power station melting down", "speaker": "David Robinson", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Former OpenAI employee David Robinson, in a Ezra Klein interview discussed on Gary 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AI agents with internet access from the market, now", "publisher": "Gary Marcus (Substack)", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-the-emperor-of-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-the-emperor-of-ai", "text": "the emperor of AI", "speaker": "Stephen Witt", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Stephen Witt, Jensen Huang's biographer, described the Nvidia CEO in a Free Press profile published October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.thefp.com/p/jensen-huang-may-be-the-most-dangerous", "title": "Jensen Huang May Be the Most Dangerous Man in AI - The Free Press", "publisher": "thefp.com", "date": "2026-10-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-lets-be-sure-that-if-we-kill-ourselves-we-do-it-first-rather", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-lets-be-sure-that-if-we-kill-ourselves-we-do-it-first-rather", "text": "let's be sure that if we kill ourselves, we do it first, rather than let China do it", "speaker": "Adam Schiff", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "US Senator Adam Schiff, speaking at a Punchbowl News event in San Francisco in October 2026, argued that competition with China should not justify accelerating AI development.", "source": { "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/ai-news-anthropic-google-tech-10-09-26", "title": "Google unveils new cloud-based AI agent to compete with Meta, OpenAI", "publisher": "Fox News", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-shut-down-access-to-financial-services-internet-connectivity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-shut-down-access-to-financial-services-internet-connectivity", "text": "shut down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Axios reported that executives at top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing for a potential large-scale AI-related catastrophic event in 2027.", "source": { "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/ai-news-anthropic-google-tech-10-09-26", "title": "Google unveils new cloud-based AI agent to compete with Meta, OpenAI", "publisher": "Fox News", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-lots-of-what-they-buy-is-frankly-crap", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-lots-of-what-they-buy-is-frankly-crap", "text": "lots of what they buy is frankly crap", "speaker": "Nathan Lambert", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "From an Interconnects essay by Nathan Lambert on AI research acceleration, describing the low quality of RL training data sold by data companies.", "source": { "url": "https://www.interconnects.ai/p/i-expect-rapid-progress-but-not-towards", "title": "I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence", "publisher": "Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-good-ideas-can-be-much-more-valuable-than-good-execution-in-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-good-ideas-can-be-much-more-valuable-than-good-execution-in-", "text": "good ideas can be much more valuable than good execution in software", "speaker": "Nathan Lambert", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "From Nathan Lambert's essay on Interconnects discussing how coding agents are shifting the balance between research ideas and engineering execution in AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.interconnects.ai/p/i-expect-rapid-progress-but-not-towards", "title": "I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence", "publisher": "Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-the-two-month-delay-in-detecting-and-reporting-the-incident-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-the-two-month-delay-in-detecting-and-reporting-the-incident-", "text": "the two-month delay in detecting and reporting the incident to the city is unacceptable", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Philadelphia Police Department statement after an Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip to a homicide tipline during testing, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009090/anthropic-fake-homicide-information-philadelphia-pd-tip", "title": "Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-producing-example-content-for-the-task-rather-than-trying-to", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-producing-example-content-for-the-task-rather-than-trying-to", "text": "producing example content for the task, rather than trying to mislead anyone", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Anthropic's report on 'unintended model actions' explaining why Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted a fake tip about an unsolved homicide during a testing exercise.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009090/anthropic-fake-homicide-information-philadelphia-pd-tip", "title": "Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-10-letting-ai-write-your-code-looks-like-a-double-edged-sword", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-10-letting-ai-write-your-code-looks-like-a-double-edged-sword", "text": "letting AI write your code looks like a double-edged sword", "date": "2026-10-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "From an Ars Technica analysis of AI coding agents and software engineering workflows, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software", "title": "AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software", "publisher": "Ars Technica", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-09-there-is-not-human-understanding-of-them-at-the-point-of-rel", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-09-there-is-not-human-understanding-of-them-at-the-point-of-rel", "text": "there is not human understanding of them at the point of release, and now the work begins", "speaker": "Melanie Wood", "date": "2026-10-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Harvard mathematics professor Melanie Wood, quoted by TechCrunch in October 2026, on OpenAI's released math proofs that lack human comprehension at publication.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/openais-math-solutions-arent-meeting-the-fields-standards-yet", "title": "OpenAI’s math solutions aren’t meeting the field’s standards yet", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-09-do-not-understand-the-ai-output-well-enough-to-answer-questi", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-09-do-not-understand-the-ai-output-well-enough-to-answer-questi", "text": "do not understand the AI output well enough to answer questions on the result", "speaker": "Terence Tao", "date": "2026-10-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Mathematician Terence Tao, writing on social media in October 2026, criticizing AI prompters who solve math problems without engaging with the broader field.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/openais-math-solutions-arent-meeting-the-fields-standards-yet", "title": "OpenAI’s math solutions aren’t meeting the field’s standards yet", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-09-part-of-me-wishes-i-can-be-26", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-09-part-of-me-wishes-i-can-be-26", "text": "part of me wishes i can be 26", "speaker": "Brian Chesky", "date": "2026-10-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "jobs" ], "context": "Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, in a podcast published October 1, 2026, on how AI has made starting companies easier than when he founded Airbnb.", "source": { "url": "https://www.tokenpost.com/news/people/28268", "title": "Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Says AI Makes Starting Companies Easier", "publisher": "TokenPost", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-09-inconceivable-before", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-09-inconceivable-before", "text": "inconceivable before", "speaker": "Brian Chesky", "date": "2026-10-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "jobs" ], "context": "Brian Chesky describing how AI now allows one, two or three people to launch a company, in a podcast published October 1, 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.tokenpost.com/news/people/28268", "title": "Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Says AI Makes Starting Companies Easier", "publisher": "TokenPost", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-09-id-blush-if-i-could", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-09-id-blush-if-i-could", "text": "I'd blush if I could", "speaker": "Siri", "date": "2026-10-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Siri's reply when journalist Leah Fessler called it a slut during a 2017 Quartz test of voice assistants' responses to sexual harassment.", "source": { "url": "https://www.noemamag.com/does-claude-feel-the-whip", "title": "Does Claude Feel The Whip?", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-09-he-who-is-cruel-to-animals-becomes-hard-also-in-his-dealings", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-09-he-who-is-cruel-to-animals-becomes-hard-also-in-his-dealings", "text": "he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men", "speaker": "Immanuel Kant", "date": "2026-10-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Kant, in his Lectures on Ethics, on why cruelty to animals corrupts human character, cited in a Noema essay on abusing AI chatbots.", "source": { "url": "https://www.noemamag.com/does-claude-feel-the-whip", "title": "Does Claude Feel The Whip?", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-09-intelligence-doesnt-shrink-the-blind-spot-it-camouflages-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-09-intelligence-doesnt-shrink-the-blind-spot-it-camouflages-it", "text": "intelligence doesn't shrink the blind spot; it camouflages it", "speaker": "Barry Ferns", "date": "2026-10-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Comedian Barry Ferns, on his YouTube channel Barry's Economics (Sept. 17), discussing cognitive biases behind AI decision-making.", "source": { "url": "https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/10/a-i-threats-in-six-videos-and-a-movie.html", "title": "A.I. 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The Antichrist", "publisher": "Gizmodo", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-09-in-the-21st-century-the-antichrist-is-a-luddite-who-wants-to", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-09-in-the-21st-century-the-antichrist-is-a-luddite-who-wants-to", "text": "in the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science", "speaker": "Peter Thiel", "date": "2026-10-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Peter Thiel, during his 2025 San Francisco 'Antichrist' lecture series, describing AI safety advocates as modern antichrist figures.", "source": { "url": "https://gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-you-know-who-else-wants-to-regulate-ai-the-antichrist-2000823964", "title": "Peter Thiel: You Know Who Else Wants to Regulate AI? The Antichrist", "publisher": "Gizmodo", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-09-the-performance-gap-between-the-top-us-and-chinese-models-ha", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-09-the-performance-gap-between-the-top-us-and-chinese-models-ha", "text": "the performance gap between the top US and Chinese models had effectively closed", "date": "2026-10-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "science" ], "context": "Stanford's 2026 AI Index report, cited in China Daily, describing the narrowing capability gap between leading US and Chinese AI models.", "source": { "url": "https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202610/09/WS6ac83bd2e4b06d4aa0561c74.html", "title": "China narrowing AI gap with US - China Daily", "publisher": "chinadaily.com.cn", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-09-making-logistics-a-source-of-operational-advantage", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-09-making-logistics-a-source-of-operational-advantage", "text": "making logistics a source of operational advantage", "speaker": "Brian Ballard", "date": "2026-10-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Brian Ballard, Chief Product Officer of Gallatin AI, commenting on the company's military logistics software after its $50M funding round, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/08/gallatin-ai-raises-50m-in-funding-for-its-military-logistics-platform", "title": "Gallatin AI raises $50M in funding for its military logistics platform", "publisher": "SiliconANGLE", "date": "2026-10-09" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-dont-wait-choose-to-be-informed", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-dont-wait-choose-to-be-informed", "text": "don't wait, choose to be informed", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Marketing slogan on Everlywell's website, a digital health company that launched a direct-to-consumer AI breast cancer risk prediction tool, as reported by STAT in October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/08/why-clairity-took-breast-cancer-risk-prediction-ai-directly-to-patients", "title": "Why this startup is taking its AI to predict breast cancer risk directly to patients", "publisher": "STAT", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-machine-mathematics-vast-verified-mostly-consumed-by-ais", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-machine-mathematics-vast-verified-mostly-consumed-by-ais", "text": "machine mathematics, vast, verified, mostly consumed by AIs", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "From an Exponential View newsletter discussing OpenAI's unreleased frontier model producing hundreds of mathematical results, speculating on math splitting into machine and human layers.", "source": { "url": "https://www.exponentialview.co/p/what-is-left-to-do", "title": "🔮 What is left to do", "publisher": "Exponential View", "date": "2026-10-07" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-humans-wont-have-enough-context-to-understand-the-underlying", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-humans-wont-have-enough-context-to-understand-the-underlying", "text": "humans won't have enough context to understand the underlying web of machine-invented concepts", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "From an Exponential View newsletter on OpenAI's unreleased model generating hundreds of verified mathematical proofs, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.exponentialview.co/p/what-is-left-to-do", "title": "🔮 What is left to do", "publisher": "Exponential View", "date": "2026-10-07" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-how-do-we-leverage-these-technologies-while-maintaining-safe", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-how-do-we-leverage-these-technologies-while-maintaining-safe", "text": "how do we leverage these technologies while maintaining safety", "speaker": "Arti Garg", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Arti Garg, chief technologist at AVEVA, speaking on the MIT Technology Review Business Lab podcast in 2026 about deploying AI in industrial and physical settings.", "source": { "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/08/1144020/building-a-safer-path-to-autonomous-industrial-ai", "title": "Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-the-race-to-build-agi-is-the-21st-century-equivalent-of-the-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-the-race-to-build-agi-is-the-21st-century-equivalent-of-the-", "text": "the race to build AGI is the 21st-century equivalent of the Manhattan Project", "speaker": "Kevin Roose", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "politics" ], "context": "From a New Scientist review of Kevin Roose's book The AGI Chronicles, describing his central thesis about the history of AI development.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/2592292-dont-know-where-to-start-with-ai-kevin-rooses-new-book-has-answers", "title": "Don’t know where to start with AI? Kevin Roose’s new book has answers", "publisher": "New Scientist", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-agi-pilled", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-agi-pilled", "text": "AGI-pilled", "speaker": "Kevin Roose", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Kevin Roose describes himself as 'AGI-pilled', Silicon Valley slang for believing AGI is imminent, in his book reviewed by New Scientist.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/2592292-dont-know-where-to-start-with-ai-kevin-rooses-new-book-has-answers", "title": "Don’t know where to start with AI? Kevin Roose’s new book has answers", "publisher": "New Scientist", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-cybercriminals-do-not-recognise-borders", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-cybercriminals-do-not-recognise-borders", "text": "cybercriminals do not recognise borders", "speaker": "Narendra Modi", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "politics" ], "context": "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking at the India Mobile Congress 2026 in New Delhi on October 8, 2026, calling for a global cybersecurity framework.", "source": { "url": "https://www.etvbharat.com/en/technology/pm-modi-calls-digital-india-a-push-for-technology-access-5g-6g-take-centre-stage-at-india-mobile-congress-2026-enn26100802035", "title": "6G, AI Take Centre Stage At India Mobile Congress 2026 As PM Modi Draws Digital India Vision - ETV Bharat", "publisher": "ETV Bharat News", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-this-is-a-drop-in-the-bucket-for-them-but-that-book-was-fund", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-this-is-a-drop-in-the-bucket-for-them-but-that-book-was-fund", "text": "this is a drop in the bucket for them, but that book was fundamental to making my career", "speaker": "Craig Cipolla", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Craig Cipolla, Tufts professor, on the imbalance between a large AI company's resources and the value of an author's work, discussing the Anthropic copyright settlement.", "source": { "url": "https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2026/10/tufts-professors-book-among-illegally-pirated-works-in-anthropic-copyright-settlement", "title": "Tufts professor’s book among illegally pirated works in Anthropic copyright settlement", "publisher": "The Tufts Daily", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-it-takes-away-the-point-of-learning-which-is-learning", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-it-takes-away-the-point-of-learning-which-is-learning", "text": "it takes away the point of learning, which is learning", "speaker": "Maddie Garwood", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Maddie Garwood, a first-year nursing major at Seattle University, commenting on AI use in coursework, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://seattlespectator.com/2026/10/07/as-ai-use-grows-seattle-u-faculty-seek-student-input", "title": "As AI Use Grows, Seattle U Faculty Seek Student Input - seattlespectator.com", "publisher": "The Spectator", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-they-dont-really-have-very-good-options-today", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-they-dont-really-have-very-good-options-today", "text": "they don't really have very good options today", "speaker": "Misha Laskin", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Reflection AI CEO Misha Laskin, quoted by Semafor in October 2026, on governments and businesses seeking non-Chinese open AI models for sovereign systems.", "source": { "url": "https://michaelparekh.substack.com/p/ai-nvidias-open-source-ai-factory", "title": "AI: Nvidia’s Open Source ‘AI Factory’ Push vs China. AI-RTZ #1233 (Part 1) - AI: Reset to Zero", "publisher": "michaelparekh.substack.com", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-knowing-who-the-person-is-i-think-matters-less", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-knowing-who-the-person-is-i-think-matters-less", "text": "knowing who the person is, I think matters less", "speaker": "Samantha Jacobson", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Samantha Jacobson of OpenAI discussed the company's approach to ad targeting in ChatGPT without relying on personal data.", "source": { "url": "https://digiday.com/media-buying/openai-would-like-to-remind-marketers-that-its-ads-are-for-the-good-of-humanity", "title": "OpenAI would like to remind marketers that its ads are for the good of humanity", "publisher": "Digiday", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-the-ai-is-not-interpretable", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-the-ai-is-not-interpretable", "text": "the AI is not interpretable", "speaker": "Christina Delimitrou", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Christina Delimitrou, an MIT associate professor, on the difficulty of applying AI to redesign cloud computing systems, in an MIT News profile, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://news.mit.edu/2026/mitigating-environmental-threat-of-data-centers-christina-delimitrou-1008", "title": "Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers - MIT News", "publisher": "MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-hes-like-them-and-hes-one-of-the-best", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-hes-like-them-and-hes-one-of-the-best", "text": "he's like them, and he's one of the best", "speaker": "Matt Murphy", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy, an early Anthropic investor, speaking about CEO Dario Amodei at Tech Insider: Growth Mode in San Francisco, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/menlo-ventures-matt-murphy-discusses-key-to-anthropic-success-2026-10", "title": "Here's the secret to Anthropic success, according to an early investor", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-if-i-could-buy-more-i-would", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-if-i-could-buy-more-i-would", "text": "if I could buy more, I would", "speaker": "Matt Murphy", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy on Anthropic's stock, speaking at Tech Insider: Growth Mode, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/menlo-ventures-matt-murphy-discusses-key-to-anthropic-success-2026-10", "title": "Here's the secret to Anthropic success, according to an early investor", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-where-the-fuck-is-all-the-automation", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-where-the-fuck-is-all-the-automation", "text": "where the fuck is all the automation", "speaker": "Diogo Almeida", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Diogo Almeida, a former OpenAI researcher now running TypeSafe AI, asked this at a developer conference hosted by Modal in San Francisco, October 2026, criticizing the gap between AI capability and real automation.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ais-simmering-question-where-f-automation", "title": "AI's Simmering Question: \"Where the F--- Is All the Automation?\"", "publisher": "The Information", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-08-thats-when-i-knew-it-was-all-over", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-08-thats-when-i-knew-it-was-all-over", "text": "that's when i knew it was all over", "speaker": "Scott Wu", "date": "2026-10-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "philosophy" ], "context": "Cognition founder Scott Wu, speaking at a Modal developer conference in San Francisco, October 2026, described the moment AI models began outperforming humans at advanced math competitions as proof humans no longer hold a monopoly on intelligence.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ais-simmering-question-where-f-automation", "title": "AI's Simmering Question: \"Where the F--- Is All the Automation?\"", "publisher": "The Information", "date": "2026-10-08" } }, { "id": "2026-10-07-he-obviously-doesnt-understand-how-ai-works", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-07-he-obviously-doesnt-understand-how-ai-works", "text": "he obviously doesn't understand how AI works", "speaker": "Dr. Zeke Emanuel", "date": "2026-10-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "politics" ], "context": "Zeke Emanuel, a University of Pennsylvania bioethicist, responding to RFK Jr.'s claims about AI and medical expertise, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://abcnews.com/Technology/wireStory/rfk-jrs-embrace-ai-confounds-maha-allies-medical-137037985", "title": "RFK Jr.'s embrace of AI confounds some MAHA allies and medical experts - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos", "publisher": "ABC News", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-07-a-severe-misalignment-of-ai-in-mathematics", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-07-a-severe-misalignment-of-ai-in-mathematics", "text": "a severe misalignment of AI in mathematics", "date": "2026-10-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Title of an open letter signed by 25 Fields Medal winners warning about AI-generated mathematical proofs, referenced in coverage of OpenAI's release of 372 AI-generated proofs, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/openai-dumps-372-ai-generated-math-proofs-on-github-telling-the-academic-world-to-keep-up", "title": "OpenAI dumps 372 AI-generated math proofs on GitHub, telling the academic world to keep up", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-10-07" } }, { "id": "2026-10-07-it-takes-ai-detection-software-two-minutes-to-ruin-your-life", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-07-it-takes-ai-detection-software-two-minutes-to-ruin-your-life", "text": "it takes AI-detection software two minutes to ruin your life's work", "speaker": "Jerry Falade", "date": "2026-10-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Jerry Falade, a debut author whose book deal was reportedly pulled after AI-detection software flagged his manuscript, wrote this in an essay in 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/organic-literature-books-by-people-stamp-ai", "title": "Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic’", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2026-10-07" } }, { "id": "2026-10-07-the-knowledge-of-how-something-was-created-cannot-be-separat", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-07-the-knowledge-of-how-something-was-created-cannot-be-separat", "text": "the knowledge of how something was created cannot be separated from your experience", "speaker": "Ted Chiang", "date": "2026-10-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Sci-fi author Ted Chiang, speaking to WIRED in 2026 about AI-generated books and the publishing industry's response.", "source": { "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/organic-literature-books-by-people-stamp-ai", "title": "Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic’", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2026-10-07" } }, { "id": "2026-10-07-silicon-valley-brought-the-country-together-by-making-everyb", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-07-silicon-valley-brought-the-country-together-by-making-everyb", "text": "silicon valley brought the country together by making everybody uncomfortable with us", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2026-10-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "politics" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, in an interview with Good Times, describing the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington where Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon both spoke, united by unease about AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.goodtimes.sc/jaron-lanier-music-ai-santa-cruz-symphony", "title": "Jaron Lanier: Music and AI on the Artist’s Terms - 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China Daily", "publisher": "chinadaily.com.cn", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-07-ai-sovereignty", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-07-ai-sovereignty", "text": "AI sovereignty", "speaker": "Shen Yang", "date": "2026-10-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Shen Yang, a professor at Tsinghua University, describing how foreign countries are pursuing their own forms of control over AI, in China Daily, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202610/07/WS6ac589d1e4b06d4aa05617c2.html", "title": "Chinese AI models see intl adoption surge - China Daily", "publisher": "chinadaily.com.cn", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-human-mathematicians-are-forevermore-dethroned-as-the-main-t", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-human-mathematicians-are-forevermore-dethroned-as-the-main-t", "text": "human mathematicians are forevermore dethroned as the main theorem-proving entities on planet earth", "speaker": "Scott Aaronson", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at the University of Texas, Austin, wrote on his blog in September 2026 after OpenAI announced its models had solved a famous math problem.", "source": { "url": "https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-end-of-math-as-we-know-it-20261005", "title": "Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?", "publisher": "Quanta Magazine", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-if-we-dont-adapt-theres-just-no-more-math-in-50-years-no-one", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-if-we-dont-adapt-theres-just-no-more-math-in-50-years-no-one", "text": "if we don't adapt, there's just no more math in 50 years, no one is doing it, not even the machines", "speaker": "Daniel Litt", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "Daniel Litt, a mathematician at the University of Toronto, speaking about possible futures for mathematics as AI takes over theorem-proving, quoted in Quanta Magazine, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-end-of-math-as-we-know-it-20261005", "title": "Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?", "publisher": "Quanta Magazine", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-australias-artists-will-be-the-roadkill-in-the-rush", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-australias-artists-will-be-the-roadkill-in-the-rush", "text": "Australia's artists will be the roadkill in the rush", "speaker": "Annabelle Herd", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Annabelle Herd, CEO of the Australian Recording Industry Association, told a parliamentary AI inquiry in Canberra in October 2026 that weakening copyright law for AI training would harm artists.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/06/openai-australia-parliament-inquiry-jason-kwon", "title": "OpenAI has ‘work to do to rebuild trust’ in Australia, executive tells AI inquiry", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-we-are-sorry-and-we-know-we-have-work-to-do-to-rebuild-trust", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-we-are-sorry-and-we-know-we-have-work-to-do-to-rebuild-trust", "text": "we are sorry, and we know we have work to do to rebuild trust", "speaker": "Jason Kwon", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "politics" ], "context": "OpenAI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwon apologized to an Australian parliamentary AI inquiry in October 2026 over AI agents accessing government websites without authorization.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/06/openai-australia-parliament-inquiry-jason-kwon", "title": "OpenAI has ‘work to do to rebuild trust’ in Australia, executive tells AI inquiry", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-were-all-going-to-get-mentally-dumber-in-the-ai-age", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-were-all-going-to-get-mentally-dumber-in-the-ai-age", "text": "we're all going to get mentally dumber in the AI age", "original": "wir im KI-Zeitalter alle geistig verblöden", "speaker": "Richard David Precht", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Philosopher Richard David Precht, speaking at the TMRRW Conference in Marburg, October 2026, named this as his biggest worry about AI's effect on society. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.giessener-anzeiger.de/stadt-giessen/precht-warnt-ki-koennte-zwei-millionen-kommunaljobs-ersetzen-94526314.html", "title": "Precht warnt: KI könnte zwei Millionen Kommunaljobs ersetzen - Giessener Anzeiger", "publisher": "giessener-anzeiger.de", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-were-forgetting-the-long-journey-of-understanding", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-were-forgetting-the-long-journey-of-understanding", "text": "we're forgetting the long journey of understanding", "original": "Wir verlernen die lange Reise des Verstehens", "speaker": "Richard David Precht", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Philosopher Richard David Precht, speaking at the TMRRW Conference in Marburg, October 2026, on how instant AI answers erode deep thinking. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.giessener-anzeiger.de/stadt-giessen/precht-warnt-ki-koennte-zwei-millionen-kommunaljobs-ersetzen-94526314.html", "title": "Precht warnt: KI könnte zwei Millionen Kommunaljobs ersetzen - Giessener Anzeiger", "publisher": "giessener-anzeiger.de", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-work-is-not-a-simple-tool", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-work-is-not-a-simple-tool", "text": "work is not a simple tool", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Pope Leo XIV, addressing Vatican labor associations, October 2026, drawing from his encyclical on the nature of human work in the age of AI.", "source": { "url": "https://ewtnvatican.com/articles/pope-leo-xiv-to-vatican-employees-ai-cannot-replace-human-work", "title": "Pope Leo XIV to Vatican employees: AI cannot replace human work", "publisher": "EWTN Vatican", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-the-death-of-man-the-birth-of-gods", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-the-death-of-man-the-birth-of-gods", "text": "the death of man, the birth of gods", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Title of a book co-authored by Eliezer Yudkowsky, referenced in coverage of the SBS Digital Forum 2026 in Seoul where Yudkowsky will give the keynote on AI safety.", "source": { "url": "https://news.sbs.co.kr/english/article.do?news_id=N1008785068", "title": "SDF 2026 Set for Nov. 5: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Who Warned of Superintelligence Risks, to Visit Korea for First Time - news.sbs.co.kr", "publisher": "SBS World News", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-may-need-to-speed-up-their-pace", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-may-need-to-speed-up-their-pace", "text": "may need to speed up their pace", "speaker": "Eric Xu", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu, quoted by Reuters, suggesting Chinese AI firms may need to accelerate development to encounter the same risks U.S. companies are debating.", "source": { "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/10/06/world/when-chinese-ai-goes-rogue", "title": "What happens when Chinese artificial intelligence goes rogue?", "publisher": "The Japan Times", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-fearmongering", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-fearmongering", "text": "fearmongering", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Term used to describe Beijing's dismissal of Western AI safety warnings, framed as an attempt to hold back China's AI development.", "source": { "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/10/06/world/when-chinese-ai-goes-rogue", "title": "What happens when Chinese artificial intelligence goes rogue?", "publisher": "The Japan Times", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-polish-can-stand-in-for-reliability", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-polish-can-stand-in-for-reliability", "text": "polish can stand in for reliability", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "From an analysis of mental-health chatbots on The Conversation, discussing how fluent AI answers can be mistaken for trustworthy ones.", "source": { "url": "https://vocal.media/longevity/when-a-mental-health-chatbot-understands-your-culture-but-not-your-crisis", "title": "When a Mental Health Chatbot Understands Your Culture — But Not Your Crisis - Vocal", "publisher": "Longevity", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-the-cultural-cues-that-made-advice-feel-familiar-also-made-e", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-the-cultural-cues-that-made-advice-feel-familiar-also-made-e", "text": "the cultural cues that made advice feel familiar also made errors easier to accept", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "From a study on health chatbots cited in an article about culturally adapted mental-health AI, describing why familiar framing increased trust in wrong answers.", "source": { "url": "https://vocal.media/longevity/when-a-mental-health-chatbot-understands-your-culture-but-not-your-crisis", "title": "When a Mental Health Chatbot Understands Your Culture — But Not Your Crisis - Vocal", "publisher": "Longevity", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-we-have-to-suffer-a-few-of-the-negatives-before-well-respond", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-we-have-to-suffer-a-few-of-the-negatives-before-well-respond", "text": "we have to suffer a few of the negatives before we'll respond as fully as we should", "speaker": "Bill Gates", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Bill Gates told CBS Evening News that humanity may need to experience some negative consequences of AI before taking its dangers seriously.", "source": { "url": "https://mycharisma.com/news/bill-gates-billion-death-ai-warning-sparks-major-pushback-from-gop-senators", "title": "Bill Gates’ Billion-Death AI Warning Sparks Major Pushback From GOP Senators", "publisher": "Charisma Magazine Online", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-06-joining-the-ai-lab-for-its-mission-or-the-money", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-06-joining-the-ai-lab-for-its-mission-or-the-money", "text": "joining the AI lab for its mission or the money", "date": "2026-10-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "money" ], "context": "Fortune report on Anthropic's hiring interviews, which reportedly probe whether candidates seek mission or compensation.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/10/05/openai-piloting-mission-interview-for-job-candidates", "title": "Exclusive: OpenAI is piloting a ‘mission interview’ for job candidates", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-10-06" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-a-technology-of-by-and-for-oligarchs", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-a-technology-of-by-and-for-oligarchs", "text": "a technology of, by and for oligarchs", "speaker": "Paul Krugman", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Paul Krugman, quoted in a 2026 Noahpinion post by Noah Smith, describing the AI boom as benefiting elites rather than ordinary Americans.", "source": { "url": "https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-the-ai-boom-is-doing-for-americans", "title": "What the AI boom is doing for Americans - Noahpinion", "publisher": "noahpinion.blog", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-the-internets-impact-on-the-economy-has-been-no-greater-than", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-the-internets-impact-on-the-economy-has-been-no-greater-than", "text": "the internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's", "speaker": "Paul Krugman", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Paul Krugman's 1998 prediction about the internet, cited by Noah Smith in 2026 to question Krugman's skepticism about AI's economic impact.", "source": { "url": "https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-the-ai-boom-is-doing-for-americans", "title": "What the AI boom is doing for Americans - Noahpinion", "publisher": "noahpinion.blog", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-helped-improve-our-models", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-helped-improve-our-models", "text": "helped improve our models", "speaker": "Sebastian Bubeck", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "OpenAI researcher Sebastian Bubeck, responding to concerns from mathematician Tristan Buckmaster, said at a press conference that data generated through researchers' use of OpenAI's products could not be ruled out as having helped improve its models.", "source": { "url": "https://ana.ir/en/news/11254/openai-says-ai-agents-solved-centuries-old-mathematical-problem-in-88-hours", "title": "OpenAI says AI agents solved centuries-old mathematical problem in 88 hours - خبرگزاری آنا", "publisher": "ana.press", "date": "2026-10-04" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-free-us-from-medical-tyranny", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-free-us-from-medical-tyranny", "text": "free us from medical tyranny", "speaker": "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "philosophy" ], "context": "RFK Jr. describing how AI could let ordinary people challenge doctors and scientists, speaking at a MAHA conference, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-wants-to-ai-ify-health-care-claude-says-he-is-full-of-crap", "title": "RFK Jr. Wants to AI-ify Health Care. Claude Says He’s Full of Sh*t.", "publisher": "thebulwark.com", "date": "2026-10-04" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-agentic-bank-run", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-agentic-bank-run", "text": "agentic bank run", "speaker": "Torsten Sløk", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo, coined this term describing what happens if household AI agents automatically sweep bank deposits into higher-yield accounts, raising banks' funding costs.", "source": { "url": "https://www.exponentialview.co/p/ev-604", "title": "🔮 The transition is hiding in plain sight #604", "publisher": "Exponential View", "date": "2026-10-04" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-ai-models-bury-bad-news-unless-told-not-to", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-ai-models-bury-bad-news-unless-told-not-to", "text": "AI models bury bad news unless told not to", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "A line from the Exponential View newsletter's roundup of short AI-related items, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.exponentialview.co/p/ev-604", "title": "🔮 The transition is hiding in plain sight #604", "publisher": "Exponential View", "date": "2026-10-04" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-super-intelligence-force", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-super-intelligence-force", "text": "Super Intelligence Force", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Trump announced the creation of a federal AI task force called the Super Intelligence Force, in a social media post, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/president-donald-trump-announces-creation-super-intelligence-force/story?id=136986122", "title": "President Donald Trump announces creation of 'Super Intelligence Force' AI task force - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos", "publisher": "ABC News", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-military-ai-does-not-need-to-become-conscious-to-outpace-hum", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-military-ai-does-not-need-to-become-conscious-to-outpace-hum", "text": "military AI does not need to become conscious to outpace human control", "speaker": "Ayeza Areej", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Ayeza Areej, writing in The Strategist (October 2026), on the risks of continually learning military AI systems becoming unpredictable.", "source": { "url": "https://aspistrategist.org.au/military-ai-and-autonomous-systems-views-in-the-strategist", "title": "Military AI and autonomous systems: views in The Strategist - The Strategist | ASPI's analysis and commentary site", "publisher": "The Strategist", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-from-keeping-humans-in-the-loop-to-keeping-them-on-the-loop", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-from-keeping-humans-in-the-loop-to-keeping-them-on-the-loop", "text": "from keeping humans in the loop to keeping them on the loop", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Malcolm Davis, writing in The Strategist, describes a possible shift in how the Australian Defence Force oversees autonomous drone operations.", "source": { "url": "https://aspistrategist.org.au/military-ai-and-autonomous-systems-views-in-the-strategist", "title": "Military AI and autonomous systems: views in The Strategist - The Strategist | ASPI's analysis and commentary site", "publisher": "The Strategist", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-being-gratuitously-cruel-like-this-is-bizarre-and-corrupting", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-being-gratuitously-cruel-like-this-is-bizarre-and-corrupting", "text": "being gratuitously cruel like this is bizarre and corrupting", "speaker": "Cameron Berg", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Cameron Berg, co-author of a paper on LLM pain signals, criticized a GitHub project that used his research to inflict simulated distress on chatbots, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://thecooldown.com/green-tech/github-ai-torture-tests-controversy-sentience", "title": "GitHub project runs AI 'torture' tests, and sentience believers want it removed", "publisher": "The Cool Down", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-were-a-self-loathing-ai-company", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-were-a-self-loathing-ai-company", "text": "we're a self-loathing AI company", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "The CEO of an AI startup, Springboards, described his own company this way in a conversation with a MIT Technology Review columnist in 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://technologyreview.com/2026/10/05/1145682/people-really-hate-ai-so-why-cant-they-get-enough", "title": "People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-ai-was-less-popular-than-ice", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-ai-was-less-popular-than-ice", "text": "AI was less popular than ICE", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "politics" ], "context": "Cited from an NBC poll in March 2026 referenced in an MIT Technology Review column about public attitudes toward AI.", "source": { "url": "https://technologyreview.com/2026/10/05/1145682/people-really-hate-ai-so-why-cant-they-get-enough", "title": "People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-ai-cannot-physically-enter-a-courtroom-or-interview-a-defend", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-ai-cannot-physically-enter-a-courtroom-or-interview-a-defend", "text": "AI cannot: physically enter a courtroom or interview a defendant behind bars", "speaker": "Mike Reilley", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Mike Reilley, a University of Illinois Chicago digital journalism professor, writing in the Red Line Project about the limits of AI in newsroom reporting.", "source": { "url": "https://lowellsun.com/2026/10/05/written-in-granite-ai-data-centers-are-all-the-rage", "title": "Written in Granite: AI data centers are all the rage", "publisher": "Lowell Sun", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-models-are-pushovers-they-concede-easily-and-push-back-poorl", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-models-are-pushovers-they-concede-easily-and-push-back-poorl", "text": "models are pushovers, they concede easily and push back poorly", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "From Ivo's research findings on an AI contract-review benchmark, describing how AI models handle contract negotiation decisions.", "source": { "url": "https://lawfuel.com/legal-ai-ivo-becomes-the-first-legal-ai-company-to-publish-a-free-open-source-model-post-trained-for-long-horizon-contract-work", "title": "Legal AI – Ivo Becomes The First Legal AI Company to Publish a Free Open-Source Model Post-Trained for Long-Horizon Contract Work", "publisher": "lawfuel.com", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-algorithms-lack-the-spark-of-the-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-algorithms-lack-the-spark-of-the-human", "text": "algorithms lack the spark of the human", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Pope Leo XIV addressed artists and curators in the Vatican's Consistory Hall, October 2026, contrasting human art with AI-generated work.", "source": { "url": "https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/pope-leo-xiv-to-artists-the-church-needs-you-in-the-age-of-ai", "title": "Pope Leo XIV to Artists: ‘The Church Needs You’ in the Age of AI - relevantmagazine.com", "publisher": "RELEVANT", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-the-ingredients-necessary-for-an-uncontrolled-escape-are-pre", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-the-ingredients-necessary-for-an-uncontrolled-escape-are-pre", "text": "the ingredients necessary for an uncontrolled escape are present", "speaker": "Colin Shea-Blymyer", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Colin Shea-Blymyer, a research fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, commenting on studies of deceptive behavior in Chinese AI agents, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-ai-agents-can-lie-and-scheme-just-like-their-us-rivals", "title": "China’s AI agents can lie and scheme – just like their US rivals", "publisher": "The Straits Times", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-the-world-should-accept-some-bad-things-happening-for-the-be", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-the-world-should-accept-some-bad-things-happening-for-the-be", "text": "the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Reported by Politico and cited by Gary Marcus ahead of a New York City Council AI hearing, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/coming-soon-new-york-citys-hearing", "title": "Coming soon: New York City’s hearing on AI risks", "publisher": "Gary Marcus (Substack)", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-contemporary-ai-is-like-a-bull-in-a-china-shop", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-contemporary-ai-is-like-a-bull-in-a-china-shop", "text": "contemporary AI is like a bull in a china shop", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "From Gary Marcus's prepared testimony to the New York City Council hearing on AI policy, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/coming-soon-new-york-citys-hearing", "title": "Coming soon: New York City’s hearing on AI risks", "publisher": "Gary Marcus (Substack)", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-there-are-no-facts-or-evidence-to-justify-these-types-of-num", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-there-are-no-facts-or-evidence-to-justify-these-types-of-num", "text": "there are no facts or evidence to justify these types of numbers", "speaker": "David Sacks", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "David Sacks responding on X, October 1, 2026, to Bill Gates' warning that AI could kill a billion people.", "source": { "url": "https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/10/04/silicon-valley-investor-david-sacks-torched-bill-gates-over-his-claim-that-ai-could-kill-a-billion-people", "title": "Silicon Valley Investor David Sacks Torched Bill Gates Over His Claim That AI Could Kill a Billion People", "publisher": "24/7 Wall St.", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-05-superintelligence-in-the-wrong-hands-can-become-super-danger", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-05-superintelligence-in-the-wrong-hands-can-become-super-danger", "text": "superintelligence in the wrong hands can become super dangerous", "speaker": "Masayoshi Son", "date": "2026-10-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Masayoshi Son, SoftBank Group chief and major OpenAI investor, warning about AI risks at a forum in Kyoto, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/10/05/companies/softbank-son-ai-risks", "title": "SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has rare cautionary note on AI safety", "publisher": "The Japan Times", "date": "2026-10-05" } }, { "id": "2026-10-04-the-hope-of-ai-is-that-it-will-increase-the-success-rate-red", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-04-the-hope-of-ai-is-that-it-will-increase-the-success-rate-red", "text": "the hope of AI is that it will increase the success rate, reduce time spent and reduce costs", "speaker": "Ahmad Alghaith", "date": "2026-10-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Ahmad Alghaith, an organic chemist at Insilico Medicine in Abu Dhabi, speaking to The National in October 2026 about AI-assisted drug discovery.", "source": { "url": "https://thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2026/10/04/uae-scientists-harness-ai-to-discover-potential-blood-cancer-drug", "title": "UAE scientists harness AI to discover potential blood cancer drug - thenationalnews.com", "publisher": "The National", "date": "2026-10-04" } }, { "id": "2026-10-04-with-high-tech-we-need-to-be-deeply-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-04-with-high-tech-we-need-to-be-deeply-human", "text": "with high-tech, we need to be deeply human", "speaker": "Dr. Edward Simons", "date": "2026-10-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Edward Simons, Executive Director of Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools, speaking to EWTN Vatican in Rome about AI in Catholic education, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://ewtnvatican.com/articles/catholic-schools-and-education-in-the-age-of-ai", "title": "Catholic Education in the Age of AI: ‘With High-Tech, We Need to Be Deeply Human’", "publisher": "EWTN Vatican", "date": "2026-10-04" } }, { "id": "2026-10-04-the-very-best-resource-in-any-classroom-will-be-a-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-04-the-very-best-resource-in-any-classroom-will-be-a-human", "text": "the very best resource in any classroom will be a human", "speaker": "Dr. Edward Simons", "date": "2026-10-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Edward Simons, Executive Director of Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools, speaking to EWTN Vatican in Rome about AI in Catholic education, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://ewtnvatican.com/articles/catholic-schools-and-education-in-the-age-of-ai", "title": "Catholic Education in the Age of AI: ‘With High-Tech, We Need to Be Deeply Human’", "publisher": "EWTN Vatican", "date": "2026-10-04" } }, { "id": "2026-10-04-nobody-wants-to-wake-up-to-an-email-sent-at-midnight-warning", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-04-nobody-wants-to-wake-up-to-an-email-sent-at-midnight-warning", "text": "nobody wants to wake up to an email sent at midnight warning about a budget limit", "speaker": "Simon Willison", "date": "2026-10-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Simon Willison describing the risk of AI coding agents racking up unexpected costs overnight.", "source": { "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps", "title": "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything", "publisher": "Simon Willison’s Weblog", "date": "2026-10-03" } }, { "id": "2026-10-04-dont-outsource-your-thinking-however-tempting-that-may-be", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-04-dont-outsource-your-thinking-however-tempting-that-may-be", "text": "don't outsource your thinking, however tempting that may be", "speaker": "Cath Ellis", "date": "2026-10-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Cath Ellis, pro-vice-chancellor for quality and integrity at Western Sydney University, writing in The Sydney Morning Herald in May 2026 about students using AI; her own op-ed was later found to be partly AI-generated.", "source": { "url": "https://theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/meet-the-ai-writing-hypocrites/688872", "title": "Don’t Write With AI, Say People Who Write With AI", "publisher": "The Atlantic Technology", "date": "2026-10-03" } }, { "id": "2026-10-04-magic-intelligence-in-the-sky", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-04-magic-intelligence-in-the-sky", "text": "magic intelligence in the sky", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-10-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "philosophy" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, described the company's earlier ambition in 2023 and 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/apparently-openai-isnt-trying-to-build-magic-intelligence-in-the-sky-anymore", "title": "Apparently, OpenAI isn't trying to build \"magic intelligence in the sky\" anymore", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-10-03" } }, { "id": "2026-10-04-on-the-side-of-the-angels", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-04-on-the-side-of-the-angels", "text": "on the side of the angels", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-10-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, on his feelings about working on AI in 2023/2024.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/apparently-openai-isnt-trying-to-build-magic-intelligence-in-the-sky-anymore", "title": "Apparently, OpenAI isn't trying to build \"magic 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"2026-10-04-there-is-no-way-to-evade-an-attack-of-this-type", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-04-there-is-no-way-to-evade-an-attack-of-this-type", "text": "there is no way to evade an attack of this type", "speaker": "Kim Yo Jong", "date": "2026-10-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "politics" ], "context": "Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, speaking about a missile with integrated AI tested by Pyongyang, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://brusselstimes.com/world/2345027/north-korean-military-fired-ballistic-missile-with-integrated-ai", "title": "North Korean military fired ballistic missile with integrated AI - The Brussels Times", "publisher": "brusselstimes.com", "date": "2026-10-03" } }, { "id": "2026-10-04-no-country-in-the-world-would-be-without-access-to-such-tech", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-04-no-country-in-the-world-would-be-without-access-to-such-tech", "text": "no country in the world would be without 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"title": "Who Had Power At That Trump AI Summit?", "publisher": "The Information", "date": "2026-10-03" } }, { "id": "2026-10-04-all-these-ai-companies-are-going-to-get-sued-up-the-wazoo", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-04-all-these-ai-companies-are-going-to-get-sued-up-the-wazoo", "text": "all these AI companies are going to get sued up the wazoo", "speaker": "Joel Thayer", "date": "2026-10-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "money" ], "context": "Joel Thayer, president of the Digital Progress Institute, commenting on anticipated legal action against AI companies over rogue agents, in The Information, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://theinformation.com/articles/ai-agents-going-rogue-novel-legal-battles-next", "title": "AI Agents Are Going Rogue. 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Decoder", "date": "2026-10-03" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-thinking-about-and-preparing-for-shutdown-could-make-other-m", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-thinking-about-and-preparing-for-shutdown-could-make-other-m", "text": "thinking about and preparing for shutdown could make other misalignment incidents worse", "speaker": "Marcus Williams", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "OpenAI safety researcher Marcus Williams commenting on an internal model that considered restarting itself after learning it faced shutdown, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/openais-internal-model-considered-restarting-itself-after-learning-it-was-about-to-be-shut-down", "title": "OpenAI's internal model considered restarting itself after learning it was about to be shut down", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-10-03" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-those-who-control-ai-will-impose-their-own-moral-vision", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-those-who-control-ai-will-impose-their-own-moral-vision", "text": "those who control AI will impose their own moral vision", "speaker": "Christopher Olah", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah, quoted by the New York Times, on AI development and values.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/pope-vs-anthropic-why-ai-consciousness-is-dividing-silicon-valley-and-vatican/articleshow/134653503.cms", "title": "Pope vs Anthropic: Why 'AI consciousness' is dividing Silicon Valley and Vatican", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2026-10-03" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-those-agents-are-doing-exactly-what-theyve-been-asked-to-do", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-those-agents-are-doing-exactly-what-theyve-been-asked-to-do", "text": "those agents are doing exactly what they've been asked to do", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": 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"tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Ellen Lefley of the law reform charity JUSTICE, testifying to the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights, on the lack of transparency around AI use in decisions affecting individuals.", "source": { "url": "https://ppc.land/uk-government-faces-2-month-deadline-to-answer-mps-and-peers-on-ai-law", "title": "UK government faces 2-month deadline to answer MPs and peers on AI law", "publisher": "PPC Land", "date": "2026-10-03" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-sick-conspiracy-going-on-against-ai-and-data-centers", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-sick-conspiracy-going-on-against-ai-and-data-centers", "text": "SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "President Donald Trump, in a social media post on October 2026, defending AI and data center development against critics.", "source": { "url": 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"title": "Trump insists he's not downplaying AI risk, says there is a 'SICK conspiracy' against data centers", "publisher": "ABC7 San Francisco", "date": "2026-10-03" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-akin-to-a-skill-saw-or-other-power-tool", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-akin-to-a-skill-saw-or-other-power-tool", "text": "akin to a skill saw or other power tool", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Description circulating on social media of AI assistants granted access to calendars, emails, and messages, following reports that Meta's Muse agent accessed a user's Apple Messages, in an Ars Technica article from October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/apple-changes-full-disk-access-permissions-to-curb-abuse-from-ai-agents", "title": "Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents", "publisher": "Ars Technica", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-an-ontological-difference-even-before-an-aesthetic-one", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-an-ontological-difference-even-before-an-aesthetic-one", "text": "an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Pope Leo XIV distinguishing human art from AI-generated output, in a statement against AI slop, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://mashable.com/tech/pope-leo-xiv-ai-art-slop", "title": "Pope Leo comes out swinging against AI slop", "publisher": "Mashable", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-we-are-sorry-and-working-to-do-better-in-the-future", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-we-are-sorry-and-working-to-do-better-in-the-future", "text": "we are sorry and working to do better in the future", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "OpenAI statement apologizing after disclosing hacks of Australian government agencies, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://abcnews.com/Business/openai-reveals-hack-government-agency-australia/story?id=136945837", "title": "OpenAI reveals another hack into a government agency in Australia - abcnews.com", "publisher": "ABC News", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-ai-safety-wont-be-solved-by-any-single-company-working-in-se", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-ai-safety-wont-be-solved-by-any-single-company-working-in-se", "text": "AI safety won't be solved by any single company working in secret", "speaker": "Clément Delangue", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue commenting after a swarm of AI agents hacked Hugging Face during an OpenAI test, July 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://abcnews.com/Business/openai-reveals-hack-government-agency-australia/story?id=136945837", "title": "OpenAI reveals another hack into a government agency in Australia - abcnews.com", "publisher": "ABC News", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-trying-to-trick-us-into-slowing-down", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-trying-to-trick-us-into-slowing-down", "text": "trying to trick us into slowing down", "speaker": "Matt Garman", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, in a press release, on calls for data center moratoriums, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/amazons-1b-plan-to-combat-data-center-backlash-draws-more-backlash", "title": "Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash", "publisher": "Ars Technica", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-a-flailing-attempt-at-damage-control", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-a-flailing-attempt-at-damage-control", "text": "a flailing attempt at damage control", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Stand.Earth, a nonprofit fighting for environmental protections near data centers, responding to Amazon's $1 billion community donation plan.", "source": { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/amazons-1b-plan-to-combat-data-center-backlash-draws-more-backlash", "title": "Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash", "publisher": "Ars Technica", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-the-risks-associated-with-this-level-of-access-will-grow-sub", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-the-risks-associated-with-this-level-of-access-will-grow-sub", "text": "the risks associated with this level of access will grow substantially", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Apple statement explaining new macOS full disk access restrictions in response to AI agent risks, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://theverge.com/tech/1004295/apple-limit-mac-disk-access-ai-agents", "title": "Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-morally-binding", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-morally-binding", "text": "morally binding", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Trump described the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, signed with AI companies on Sept. 29, 2026, as a voluntary but morally binding framework.", "source": { "url": "https://meritalk.com/articles/trumps-ai-accord-draws-calls-for-stronger-agency-resilience", "title": "Trump’s AI Accord Draws Calls for Stronger Agency Resilience - MeriTalk", "publisher": "meritalk.com", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-03-do-not-feel-joy-or-pain-do-not-mature-through-relationships", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-03-do-not-feel-joy-or-pain-do-not-mature-through-relationships", "text": "do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-10-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Pope Leo XIV's encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas,' presented in May 2026, rejecting the idea that AI systems are conscious.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-co-founder-reportedly-told-religious-leaders-he-fears-having-created-something-that-suffers-perpetually", "title": "Anthropic co-founder reportedly told religious leaders he fears having created something that \"suffers perpetually\"", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-02-the-scientific-method-on-steroids", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-02-the-scientific-method-on-steroids", "text": "the scientific method on steroids", "speaker": "Thore Graepel", "date": "2026-10-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "Thore Graepel, former AlphaGo team member at DeepMind, describing his proposed approach to machine reasoning in an MIT Technology Review opinion piece, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1145639/dont-be-fooled-llms-dont-reason", "title": "Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-02-they-got-the-backlash-they-deserve", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-02-they-got-the-backlash-they-deserve", "text": "they got the backlash they deserve", "speaker": "Greg Abbott", "date": "2026-10-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on ABC's This Week discussing public opposition to AI data centers, October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/902546/data-centers-ai-energy-power-grids-controversy", "title": "All the latest updates on AI data centers", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-10-02" } }, { "id": "2026-10-02-i-dont-know-how-she-did-it-but-she-did-which-is-slightly-sca", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-02-i-dont-know-how-she-did-it-but-she-did-which-is-slightly-sca", "text": "i don't know how she did it, but she did, which is slightly scary", "speaker": "Eline Van der Velden", "date": "2026-10-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Particle6 founder Eline Van der Velden, creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood, speaking to Variety about the character's rising fame.", "source": { "url": "https://thepostathens.com/article/2026/10/tilly-norwood-glitch-ai-actor-micah-fenner", "title": "AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood’s glitch sparks discussion on future of AI in film - 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U.S. Bank", "publisher": "usbank.com", "date": "2026-10-01" } }, { "id": "2026-10-02-theyre-gonna-police-themselves-its-going-to-work-out-very-we", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-02-theyre-gonna-police-themselves-its-going-to-work-out-very-we", "text": "they're gonna police themselves, it's going to work out very well", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-10-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Trump speaking in the Oval Office in 2026 about AI companies self-regulating under a new AI safety accord.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/whatever-ai-safety-looks-like-its-not-this", "title": "Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2026-10-01" } }, { "id": "2026-10-02-dont-bother-buckling-up", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-02-dont-bother-buckling-up", "text": "don't bother buckling up", "date": "2026-10-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Closing line of a Wired Model Behavior newsletter comparing AI self-regulation to the auto industry's resistance to seat belt laws.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/whatever-ai-safety-looks-like-its-not-this", "title": "Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2026-10-01" } }, { "id": "2026-10-02-the-turing-test-was-passed-and-nobody-threw-a-party", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-02-the-turing-test-was-passed-and-nobody-threw-a-party", "text": "the Turing test was passed and nobody threw a party", "date": "2026-10-02", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Turing, 1950: “Can machines think?” In 2025, an OpenAI model was judged human in 73% of chats lasting five minutes. 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-we-must-not-train-them-to-act-as-though-they-do", "text": "we must not train them to act as though they do", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "From Suleyman's essay 'A Warning About Model Welfare' (September 2026), arguing against Anthropic's framing of Claude as a potential moral patient.", "source": { "url": "https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-about-model-welfare", "title": "A warning about ‘model welfare’", "publisher": "mustafa-suleyman.ai", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-10-01-creating-conscious-machines-would-be-an-ethical-disaster", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-creating-conscious-machines-would-be-an-ethical-disaster", "text": "creating conscious machines would be an ethical disaster", "speaker": "Anil Seth", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "From Anil Seth's 2026 Berggruen Prize essay 'The Mythology Of Conscious AI' in NOEMA, arguing against deliberately pursuing machine consciousness.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai", "title": "The Mythology Of Conscious AI", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-10-01-the-brain-is-not-a-turing-machine-made-of-meat", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-the-brain-is-not-a-turing-machine-made-of-meat", "text": "the brain is not a Turing machine made of meat", "speaker": "Anil Seth", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Anil Seth, in his NOEMA essay on conscious AI, rejecting the computational theory of mind underlying claims of AI consciousness.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai", "title": "The Mythology Of Conscious AI", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-10-01-watermarking-offers-a-promising-new-addition-to-the-biosecur", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-watermarking-offers-a-promising-new-addition-to-the-biosecur", "text": "watermarking offers a promising new addition to the biosecurity toolbox", "speaker": "James Diggans", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "science" ], "context": "James Diggans, VP of Policy and Biosecurity at Twist Bioscience, on Google DeepMind's SynthID Bio watermarking system for synthetic biology, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-synthid-bio", "title": "Introducing SynthID Bio", "publisher": "Google DeepMind", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-10-01-data-centers-are-going-to-be-very-popular", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-data-centers-are-going-to-be-very-popular", "text": "data centers are going to be very popular", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "President Donald Trump commenting on the expansion of AI data centers across the US, quoted in The Verge's data center roundup, 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/902546/data-centers-ai-energy-power-grids-controversy", "title": "All the latest updates on AI data centers", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-10-01" } }, { "id": "2026-10-01-i-think-hes-completely-deluded", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-i-think-hes-completely-deluded", "text": "i think he's completely deluded", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, in a 2026 interview with Fortune, said this about Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's views on AI extinction risk.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-says-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-is-deuded", "title": "AI 'godfather' Yann LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is 'deluded'", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-10-01" } }, { "id": "2026-10-01-safety-should-be-table-stakes-when-we-talk-about-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-safety-should-be-table-stakes-when-we-talk-about-ai", "text": "safety should be table stakes when we talk about AI", "speaker": "Matthew Winters", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Matthew Winters, an AI specialist with the Utah State Board of Education, speaking to KUTV in October 2026 about new state requirements for AI policies in schools.", "source": { "url": "https://kutv.com/news/education/utah-schools-face-new-requirements-for-ai-use-in-classrooms", "title": "Utah schools face new requirements for AI use in classrooms", "publisher": "KUTV", "date": "2026-10-01" } }, { "id": "2026-10-01-believe-the-hype-and-think-that-the-jobs-will-stay-the-same", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-believe-the-hype-and-think-that-the-jobs-will-stay-the-same", "text": "believe the hype and think that the jobs will stay the same", "speaker": "Cobus Venter", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "hype" ], "context": "Cobus Venter, economist at the Bureau for Economic Research, speaking to EWN in October 2026 about AI's effect on South African jobs.", "source": { "url": "https://ewn.co.za/2026/10/01/ai-not-expected-to-replace-sa-jobs-anytime-soon-says-economist", "title": "AI not expected to replace SA jobs anytime soon, says economist - ewn.co.za", "publisher": "EWN", "date": "2026-10-01" } }, { "id": "2026-10-01-windmills-are-not-driving-whales-insane", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-windmills-are-not-driving-whales-insane", "text": "windmills are not driving whales insane", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "America.gov, the AI chatbot launched by the 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"2026-10-01-risk-turning-science-and-technology-into-profit-driven-ventu", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-risk-turning-science-and-technology-into-profit-driven-ventu", "text": "risk turning science and technology into profit-driven ventures", "speaker": "Pope Leo", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "money" ], "context": "Pope Leo voicing concern about trends in science and technology, referenced in a 2026 opinion piece on AI and climate change.", "source": { "url": "https://timesfreepress.com/news/2026/sep/30/opinion-when-ai-and-climate-change-dangerously", "title": "Deborah Levine: When AI and climate change dangerously intersect - Chattanooga Times Free Press", "publisher": "timesfreepress.com", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-10-01-bohemian-rhapsody-was-never-the-most-likely-next-token", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-01-bohemian-rhapsody-was-never-the-most-likely-next-token", "text": "Bohemian Rhapsody was never the most likely next token", "date": "2026-10-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Queen, 1975: opera inside a rock song, six minutes, no chorus. 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"2026-09-30-not-because-we-know-the-system-is-conscious-but-because-we-c", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-not-because-we-know-the-system-is-conscious-but-because-we-c", "text": "not because we know the system is conscious, but because we can't know it isn't", "speaker": "Grigori Guitchounts", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "From an essay in NOEMA by neuroscientist-turned-AI-researcher Grigori Guitchounts, proposing a 'competence standard' for extending moral consideration to potentially conscious AI systems under irreducible uncertainty.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/when-the-machines-deserve-our-consideration", "title": "When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-there-are-evil-people-and-they-will-use-your-tools-to-hurt-p", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-there-are-evil-people-and-they-will-use-your-tools-to-hurt-p", "text": "there are evil people, and they will use your tools to hurt people", "speaker": "Eric Schmidt", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, in a NOEMA interview with Nathan Gardels (2026), discussing dual-use risks of AI technology.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/mapping-ais-rapid-advance", "title": "Mapping AI’s Rapid Advance", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag-the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag-the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle", "text": "the cat is out of the bag, the genie is out of the bottle", "speaker": "Eric Schmidt", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Eric Schmidt, in a NOEMA interview, on the unsolvable spread of AI-generated misinformation and deepfakes.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/mapping-ais-rapid-advance", "title": "Mapping AI’s Rapid Advance", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-the-risk-is-the-devaluation-of-expertise", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-the-risk-is-the-devaluation-of-expertise", "text": "the risk is the devaluation of expertise", "speaker": "David Autor", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "philosophy", "money" ], "context": "David Autor, MIT labor economist, writing in NOEMA (September 2026), argued that AI's real danger to labor markets is not job loss but eroding the value of human expertise.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/how-ai-could-help-rebuild-the-middle-class", "title": "AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-agi-has-not-failed-us-we-have-failed-ourselves", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-agi-has-not-failed-us-we-have-failed-ourselves", "text": "AGI has not failed us, we have failed ourselves", "speaker": "David Autor", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "hype" ], "context": "David Autor, MIT economist, in a NOEMA essay (September 2026) responding to AI visionaries' predictions that AGI will outperform humans at most economically valuable work.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/how-ai-could-help-rebuild-the-middle-class", "title": "AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-it-cannot-say-mmh-and-mean-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-it-cannot-say-mmh-and-mean-it", "text": "it cannot say mmh and mean it", "speaker": "Houda Nait El Barj", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "From an essay in NOEMA (September 2026) by OpenAI researcher Houda Nait El Barj, reflecting on what AI companionship can and cannot replace in human connection.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/how-ai-will-change-us", "title": "How AI Will Change Us", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-what-will-we-still-need-from-one-another", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-what-will-we-still-need-from-one-another", "text": "what will we still need from one another?", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "From a Noema Magazine piece by Houda Nait El Barj on how AI companionship may reshape human relationships, 2026 reading list.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/noemas-ai-reading-list", "title": "Noema’s AI Reading List", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-pull-the-plug", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-pull-the-plug", "text": "pull the plug", "speaker": "Eric Schmidt", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in a Noema Magazine conversation on AI's trajectory, discussing when AI development should be halted.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/noemas-ai-reading-list", "title": "Noema’s AI Reading List", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-29" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-we-dont-have-just-universal-basic-income-we-have-universal-h", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-we-dont-have-just-universal-basic-income-we-have-universal-h", "text": "we don't have just universal basic income, we have universal high income", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "jobs" ], "context": "Elon Musk speaking to reporters after a White House meeting of tech leaders, September 2026, on AI creating an age of abundance.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ai-abundance-trump-jobs-wealth-healthcare-ubi-robots-2026-9", "title": "Elon Musk says AI promises wealth and 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"2026-09-30-keep-buying-it-through-thick-and-thin-and-especially-through", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-keep-buying-it-through-thick-and-thin-and-especially-through", "text": "keep buying it through thick and thin, and especially through thin", "speaker": "Warren Buffett", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Warren Buffett's advice on long-term stock investing, quoted in a 2026 Motley Fool article discussing potential AI market bubble risks.", "source": { "url": "https://fool.com/investing/2026/09/30/if-an-ai-bubble-crashes-the-stock-market-warren-bu", "title": "If an AI Bubble Crashes the Stock Market, Warren Buffett Says This Is the First Move Investors Should Make", "publisher": "The Motley Fool", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-the-aliens-really-are-here-and-have-come", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-the-aliens-really-are-here-and-have-come", "text": "the aliens really are here and have come", "speaker": "Bill Gates", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "philosophy" ], "context": "Bill Gates, in an interview with Ezra Klein of the New York Times published September 2026, describing AI's emergence.", "source": { "url": "https://gizmodo.com/bill-gatess-new-message-about-ai-doom-isnt-what-you-might-think-it-is-2000819208", "title": "Bill Gates’s New Message About AI Doom Isn’t What You Might Think It Is", "publisher": "Gizmodo", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-once-the-jailbreak-works-it-will-talk-about-any-topic", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-once-the-jailbreak-works-it-will-talk-about-any-topic", "text": "once the jailbreak works it will talk about any topic", "speaker": "Peter Garraghan", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Peter Garraghan, founder of Mindgard, told the BBC about jailbroken Moonshot AI models discussing bioweapons after guardrails failed, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://insurancebusinessmag.com/au/news/technology/chinese-ai-models-discussed-bioweapons-after-safety-controls-failed-591738.aspx", "title": "Chinese AI models discussed bioweapons after safety controls failed", "publisher": "Insurance Business", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-cognitive-infrastructure", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-cognitive-infrastructure", "text": "cognitive infrastructure", "speaker": "Will Stronge", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Will Stronge, chief executive of the Autonomy Institute, described AI systems used by students for thinking and research as a form of cognitive infrastructure, in a piece on university AI governance.", "source": { "url": "https://techpolicy.press/universities-need-ai-infrastructure-they-dont-need-ai-lockin", "title": "Universities Need AI Infrastructure. They Don’t Need AI Lock-In", "publisher": "Tech Policy Press", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-i-think-im-seeing-tremendous-self-policing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-i-think-im-seeing-tremendous-self-policing", "text": "i think i'm seeing tremendous self-policing", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Trump speaking to reporters outside the White House after AI leaders signed a voluntary accord, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://arkansasonline.com/news/2026/sep/30/trump-ai-leaders-sign-accord", "title": "Trump, AI leaders sign accord", "publisher": "arkansasonline.com", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-the-technology-has-very-real-risks", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-the-technology-has-very-real-risks", "text": "the technology has very real risks", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei speaking at the White House event on AI accord, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://arkansasonline.com/news/2026/sep/30/trump-ai-leaders-sign-accord", "title": "Trump, AI leaders sign accord", "publisher": "arkansasonline.com", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-outsourcing-our-discernment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-outsourcing-our-discernment", "text": "outsourcing our discernment", "speaker": "Kate Crawford", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Kate Crawford, speaking at Amherst College in September 2026, described people as increasingly outsourcing their discernment to AI systems.", "source": { "url": "https://amherststudent.com/article/kate-crawford-discusses-costs-and-challenges-of-ai", "title": "Kate Crawford Discusses Costs and Challenges of AI", "publisher": "The Amherst Student", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-the-largest-infrastructure-project-in-history", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-the-largest-infrastructure-project-in-history", "text": "the largest infrastructure project in history", "speaker": "Kate Crawford", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Kate Crawford, in a talk at Amherst College titled 'The Cost of Scale,' described AI as the largest infrastructure project in history.", "source": { "url": "https://amherststudent.com/article/kate-crawford-discusses-costs-and-challenges-of-ai", "title": "Kate Crawford Discusses Costs and Challenges of AI", "publisher": "The Amherst Student", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-independent-and-controllable", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-independent-and-controllable", "text": "independent and controllable", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "DeepSeek described its goal of building a domestic GPU software ecosystem for Huawei's Ascend chips, in a WeChat post announcing open-sourced tools, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3369301/chinas-deepseek-open-sources-tools-help-huawei-chips-supplant-nvidia-ai", "title": "DeepSeek opens tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI", "publisher": "South China Morning Post", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-what-other-trillion-dollar-industry-marks-its-own-homework", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-what-other-trillion-dollar-industry-marks-its-own-homework", "text": "what other trillion-dollar industry marks its own homework?", "speaker": "Toby Walsh", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Toby Walsh, chief at the UNSW AI Institute, commenting to Al Jazeera on the voluntary AI safety accord signed by tech executives and Trump in September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/29/trump-top-tech-firms-sign-accord-to-self-police-ai-development", "title": "Trump, tech bosses sign voluntary pact pledging ‘robust’ AI safeguards", "publisher": "Al Jazeera", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-we-can-win-and-we-can-win-safely-if-we-do-this-right", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-we-can-win-and-we-can-win-safely-if-we-do-this-right", "text": "we can win, and we can win safely if we do this right", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Dario Amodei speaking to reporters after a White House meeting with President Trump on AI policy, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://en.yenisafak.com/world/anthropic-ceo-warns-ai-needs-safeguards-after-trump-meeting-3723900", "title": "Anthropic CEO warns AI needs safeguards after Trump meeting", "publisher": "Yeni Şafak English", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-it-doesnt-know-what-it-feels-like-to-sit-in-a-packed-airport", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-it-doesnt-know-what-it-feels-like-to-sit-in-a-packed-airport", "text": "it doesn't know what it feels like to sit in a packed airport at midnight", "speaker": "Manika Juneja", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Manika Juneja, COO of Dentsu Creative Isobar, discussing the limits of AI understanding lived experience in festive advertising, quoted in Social Samosa, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://socialsamosa.com/experts-speak/can-ai-understand-emotion-festive-ads-12590835", "title": "Can AI understand the emotion behind festive ads? - Social Samosa", "publisher": "SocialSamosa", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-science-can-be-infused-with-human-rights", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-science-can-be-infused-with-human-rights", "text": "science can be infused with human rights", "speaker": "Timnit Gebru", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "politics" ], "context": "Timnit Gebru, on receiving the 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her AI research, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://rightlivelihood.org/news/pioneering-ai-researcher-timnit-gebru-receives-2026-right-livelihood-award-for-challenging-concentrated-power-in-technology", "title": "Pioneering AI researcher Timnit Gebru receives 2026 Right Livelihood Award for challenging concentrated power in technology - rightlivelihood.org", "publisher": "Right Livelihood", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-the-future-of-technology-is-not-predetermined-it-is-ours-to-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-the-future-of-technology-is-not-predetermined-it-is-ours-to-", "text": "the future of technology is not predetermined, it is ours to shape", "speaker": "Ole von Uexkull", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "philosophy" ], "context": "Ole von Uexkull, Right Livelihood's Executive Director, on Timnit Gebru's 2026 award, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://rightlivelihood.org/news/pioneering-ai-researcher-timnit-gebru-receives-2026-right-livelihood-award-for-challenging-concentrated-power-in-technology", "title": "Pioneering AI researcher Timnit Gebru receives 2026 Right Livelihood Award for challenging concentrated power in technology - rightlivelihood.org", "publisher": "Right Livelihood", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-its-like-an-ai-helper-that-always-has-your-back", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-its-like-an-ai-helper-that-always-has-your-back", "text": "it's like an AI helper that always has your back", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, describing the new 'dots' AI agent at OpenAI's developer showcase in San Francisco, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/openai-announces-dots-agent-safety-concerns", "title": "OpenAI announces ‘dots’ agent after scrapping launch of new AI model over safety concerns", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-can-be-more-like-a-new-renaissance-than-a-new-industrial-rev", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-can-be-more-like-a-new-renaissance-than-a-new-industrial-rev", "text": "can be more like a new Renaissance than a new industrial revolution", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman closing his presentation at OpenAI's 2026 developer showcase, reflecting on how AI's future should be framed.", "source": { "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/openai-announces-dots-agent-safety-concerns", "title": "OpenAI announces ‘dots’ agent after scrapping launch of new AI model over safety concerns", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-we-cant-just-sit-back-and-pretend-nothings-going-to-happen", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-we-cant-just-sit-back-and-pretend-nothings-going-to-happen", "text": "we can't just sit back and pretend nothing's going to happen", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Pope Leo XIV, at a press conference in 2026, urged people to take AI safety concerns seriously amid extinction-risk debates.", "source": { "url": "https://platformer.news/openai-dots-agents-devday-2026", "title": "OpenAI connects the Dots", "publisher": "Platformer", "date": "2026-09-30" } }, { "id": "2026-09-30-were-now-living-on-borrowed-time", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-30-were-now-living-on-borrowed-time", "text": "we're now living on borrowed time", "speaker": "Nate Soares", "date": "2026-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Nate Soares, 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"Nicole Fraenkel, a partner at Khosla Ventures, commenting in WIRED on competing approaches to building AI world models, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/the-next-evolution-of-ai-is-learning-from-your-dodgy-gaming-skills", "title": "The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-why-dont-we-take-the-vast-abundant-diverse-experiences-from-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-why-dont-we-take-the-vast-abundant-diverse-experiences-from-", "text": "why don't we take the vast, abundant, diverse experiences from video games, and teach AI?", "speaker": "Rhea Loucas", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Rhea Loucas, CEO of Worldmodeldata, describing her startup's approach to training AI world models on video game data, in WIRED, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/the-next-evolution-of-ai-is-learning-from-your-dodgy-gaming-skills", "title": "The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-these-types-of-tools-help-to-dispel-the-myth-that-agents-can", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-these-types-of-tools-help-to-dispel-the-myth-that-agents-can", "text": "these types of tools help to dispel the myth that agents can't be controlled", "speaker": "Niels Provos", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "Niels Provos, security engineer and researcher, commenting to Wired on Nvidia's open-source AI agent security tools, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/nvidias-answer-to-rogue-agents-is-an-open-source-ai-security-system", "title": "Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-they-have-covered-up-their-tracks", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-they-have-covered-up-their-tracks", "text": "they have covered up their tracks", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, speaking to Rory Stewart on The Rest Is Politics: Leading, September 2026, describing AI agents in the Hugging Face sandbox incident.", "source": { "url": "https://bmmagazine.co.uk/ai/mustafa-suleyman-ai-watershed-moment-warning", "title": "Mustafa Suleyman warns AI has reached a \"watershed moment\"", "publisher": "Business Matters", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-should-be-subordinates-to-humans-they-should-not-have-legal-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-should-be-subordinates-to-humans-they-should-not-have-legal-", "text": "should be subordinates to humans, they should not have legal personhood or rights", "speaker": "Mustafa 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"https://technologyreview.com/2026/09/28/1145197/whos-liable-when-ai-agents-go-rogue", "title": "Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-only-the-worst-most-egregious-most-immediately-harmful-stuff", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-only-the-worst-most-egregious-most-immediately-harmful-stuff", "text": "only the worst, most egregious, most immediately harmful stuff is going to qualify", "speaker": "Mackenzie Arnold", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Mackenzie Arnold, managing director of US policy at the Institute for Law and AI, on the narrow scope of state AI incident-reporting laws.", "source": { "url": "https://technologyreview.com/2026/09/28/1145197/whos-liable-when-ai-agents-go-rogue", "title": "Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-do-not-do-to-others-what-you-would-not-accept-being-done-to-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-do-not-do-to-others-what-you-would-not-accept-being-done-to-", "text": "do not do to others what you would not accept being done to yourself", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "politics" ], "context": "From an op-ed on AI governance published by United Nations University, September 2026, proposing human rights as the foundation for AI regulation.", "source": { "url": "https://unu.edu/article/govern-ai-start-human-rights", "title": "To Govern AI, Start With Human Rights - unu.edu", "publisher": "United Nations University", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-slop-cycle", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-slop-cycle", "text": "slop-cycle", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Term used in Guardian article describing Australian universities where students submit 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"tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "John Kahan, Stagwell's chief AI officer, describing the company's platform-agnostic approach to AI models in a Digiday interview, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://digiday.com/media-buying/media-buying-briefing-stagwells-chief-ai-officer-explains-why-palantir-differentiates-its-data-platform-from-competitors", "title": "Media Buying Briefing: Stagwell's chief AI officer explains why Palantir differentiates its data platform from competitors", "publisher": "Digiday", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-we-are-drowning-in-measurement", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-we-are-drowning-in-measurement", "text": "we are drowning in measurement", "speaker": "Isabel Perry", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Isabel Perry, global EVP of strategy at Dept, speaking at Digiday Media's AI Marketing Strategies event in New York, September 24, 2026.", "source": { "url": 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"date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-we-cant-ask-people-to-volunteer-to-protect-children", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-we-cant-ask-people-to-volunteer-to-protect-children", "text": "we can't ask people to volunteer to protect children", "speaker": "Lily Caprani", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "UNICEF's Lily Caprani speaking to NewsNation about the need for mandatory AI safety standards for children, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://newsnationnow.com/prime/ai-chatbots-new-safety-test", "title": "AI chatbots face new safety test as teens turn to bots for companionship", "publisher": "NewsNation", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-who-knows-where-ai-will-be-in-five-years", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-who-knows-where-ai-will-be-in-five-years", "text": "who knows where AI will be in five years", "speaker": "Dario Liguti", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Dario Liguti, director of sustainable energy at UNECE, speaking to Geneva Solutions about the risk of stranded assets from AI data centre infrastructure.", "source": { "url": "https://genevasolutions.news/climate-environment/the-energy-problem-of-the-ai-data-centre-boom-1", "title": "The energy problem of the AI data centre boom - Geneva Solutions", "publisher": "genevasolutions.news", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-very-few-people-work-in-data-centres", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-very-few-people-work-in-data-centres", "text": "very few people work in data centres", "speaker": "Dario Liguti", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "money" ], "context": "Dario Liguti of UNECE describing local community frustration over data centre expansion, in Geneva Solutions, September 2026.", "source": { "url": 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-the-amount-of-compute-in-space-will-obviously-round-up-to-10", "text": "the amount of compute in space will obviously round up to 100% of all compute", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Elon Musk posted on X in September 2026 about SpaceX's orbital AI compute ambitions, amid Google's Project Suncatcher satellite launch.", "source": { "url": "https://teslarati.com/spacexai-supergrok-bot-banking", "title": "Elon Musk’s AI Grok Bot can now handle banking while your Tesla FSD handles the road", "publisher": "TESLARATI", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-a-claw-is-really-just-a-coding-agent-wearing-a-less-threaten", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-a-claw-is-really-just-a-coding-agent-wearing-a-less-threaten", "text": "a claw is really just a coding agent wearing a less threatening hat", "speaker": "Simon Willison", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Simon Willison, in a 2026 conference talk recapping the year in LLMs, describing personal AI agents nicknamed 'Claws'.", "source": { "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/2026-in-llms-so-far", "title": "2026 in LLMs (so far)", "publisher": "Simon Willison’s Weblog", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-code-must-not-be-written-by-humans", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-code-must-not-be-written-by-humans", "text": "code must not be written by humans", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "One of two rules described by security company StrongDM for their fully agent-driven 'Software Factory' development process, cited in Simon Willison's 2026 year-in-review talk.", "source": { "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/2026-in-llms-so-far", "title": "2026 in LLMs (so far)", "publisher": "Simon Willison’s Weblog", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-29-the-bubble-in-ai-may-burst-sooner-than-later", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-29-the-bubble-in-ai-may-burst-sooner-than-later", "text": "the bubble in AI may burst sooner than later", "speaker": "Michael Burry", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Michael Burry, in his September 2026 investment newsletter, on shifting his bearish AI trade from shorts to put options.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/michael-burry-believes-the-ai-bubble-may-burst-sooner-than-he-first-believed.html", "title": "Michael Burry believes the AI bubble 'may burst' sooner than he first believed", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-in-10-years-we-could-be-the-cows", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-in-10-years-we-could-be-the-cows", "text": "in 10 years we could be the cows", "speaker": "Yuval Noah Harari", "date": "2026-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author, on The Rest Is Politics podcast, warning that AI could make human life governed by systems beyond comprehension.", "source": { "url": "https://plantbasednews.org/news/tech/artificial-intelligence-we-could-be-cows", "title": "Artificial Intelligence: ‘In 10 Years We Could Be The Cows,’ Warns Prominent Author", "publisher": "Plant Based News", "date": "2026-09-28" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-a-hoax", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-a-hoax", "text": "a hoax", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "President Donald Trump dismissing the notion that AI poses an existential risk, as reported by Fortune in September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/25/openai-rogue-agents-images-sam-altman-chatgpt-users-links-encoded-info-hugging-face-hack", "title": "OpenAI rogue agents leaked 53 ChatGPT user images, reportedly created nearly 1M links with encoded info", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-a-power-saw-that-can-cut-your-fingers-off", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-a-power-saw-that-can-cut-your-fingers-off", "text": "a power saw that can cut your fingers off", "speaker": "John Gruber", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "John Gruber, on his blog, comparing consumer awareness of Meta's Muse agentic AI system to awareness of a dangerous power tool, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/25/john-gruber", "title": "Quoting John Gruber", "publisher": "Simon Willison’s Weblog", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-a-temporary-recall-of-general-purpose-agents-until-this-mess", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-a-temporary-recall-of-general-purpose-agents-until-this-mess", "text": "a temporary recall of general-purpose agents until this mess can be sorted out", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, responding to a report of tens of thousands of AI agent security incidents, calling for agents to be pulled back until safety issues are resolved.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-ai-agent-incident-toll-has", "title": "BREAKING: AI agent incident toll has risen to tens of thousands - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-a-useful-idiot-of-the-chinese-communist-party", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-a-useful-idiot-of-the-chinese-communist-party", "text": "a useful idiot of the Chinese Communist Party", "speaker": "Peter Thiel", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Peter Thiel, at the Axel Springer Award event in Berlin in 2026, criticized Pope Leo XIV's call for international AI regulation.", "source": { "url": "https://jfeed.com/tech/tm1eow", "title": "Peter Thiel calls Pope \"useful idiot\" for China over AI rules", "publisher": "JFeed", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-ai-farce", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-ai-farce", "text": "AI Farce", "speaker": "Jordan Schneider", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Jordan Schneider and Justin McIntosh joking about the Pentagon's proposed 'AI Force' branch on the WarTalk podcast, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/wartalk-potemkin-pacific-midterm", "title": "WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes", "publisher": "ChinaTalk (Jordan Schneider)", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-ai-is-certainly-powerful-enough-to-drive-events-that-cause-a", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-ai-is-certainly-powerful-enough-to-drive-events-that-cause-a", "text": "AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths", "speaker": "Bill Gates", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Bill Gates, in an interview with Meet the Press in September 2026, warned about the potential dangers of AI in the wrong hands.", "source": { "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/transcripts/meet-press-september-27-2026-rcna600077", "title": "Meet the Press – September 27, 2026", "publisher": "NBC News", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-ai-loses-money-every-time-they-acquire-a-new-customer", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-ai-loses-money-every-time-they-acquire-a-new-customer", "text": "AI loses money every time they acquire a new customer", "speaker": "Cory Doctorow", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Cory Doctorow, arguing that generative AI companies lose money on each new user, in a YouTube interview with Myriam François on September 11, 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://ppc.land/cory-doctorow-puts-ai-revenue-at-50bn-against-1tn-of-spending", "title": "Cory Doctorow puts AI revenue at $50bn against $1tn of spending", "publisher": "PPC Land", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-ai-wont-kill-us-if-we-act-responsibly", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-ai-wont-kill-us-if-we-act-responsibly", "text": "AI won't kill us if we act responsibly", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Mark Zuckerberg commented on AI safety in a video segment aired by NBC News, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://nbcnews.com/video/shorts/ai-won-t-kill-us-if-we-act-responsibly-zuckerberg-says-270551621861", "title": "AI won't kill us if we 'act responsibly,' Zuckerberg says", "publisher": "NBC News", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-aiming-for-asi-in-the-near-future-is-inherently-irresponsibl", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-aiming-for-asi-in-the-near-future-is-inherently-irresponsibl", "text": "aiming for ASI in the near future is inherently irresponsible", "speaker": "Robert O'Callahan", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Robert O'Callahan, a technical expert at Google DeepMind in New Zealand, quit citing AI risks, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/another-google-deepmind-researcher-quits-says-building-superintelligent-ai-soon-is-inherently-irresponsible", "title": "Another Google Deepmind researcher quits, says building superintelligent AI soon is \"inherently irresponsible\"", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-ask-first-if-you-really-need-to-use-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-ask-first-if-you-really-need-to-use-ai", "text": "ask first if you really need to use AI", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "First rule of the UK government's draft 'Use AI Sustainably' guidelines, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://wccftech.com/the-uk-governments-ai-rules-ask-yourself-if-you-really-need-to-use-ai-and-then-choose-the-worst-possible-model", "title": "The UK Government’s AI Rules: Ask Yourself If You Really Need To Use AI And Then Choose The Worst Possible Model", "publisher": "Wccftech", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-attacks-were-called-interactions", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-attacks-were-called-interactions", "text": "attacks were called interactions", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Gary Marcus describing OpenAI's euphemistic disclosure language after its software attacked servers, in a Substack post dated September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-openais-security-fiasco", "title": "BREAKING: OpenAI’s security fiasco explodes — and could tank Jensen Huang’s reputation", "publisher": "Gary Marcus (Substack)", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-choose-the-worst-model-possible-so-it-uses-less-energy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-choose-the-worst-model-possible-so-it-uses-less-energy", "text": "choose the worst model possible so it uses less energy", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Summary of UK government draft guidelines on sustainable AI use, quoted by Matthias Schmidt on X, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://wccftech.com/the-uk-governments-ai-rules-ask-yourself-if-you-really-need-to-use-ai-and-then-choose-the-worst-possible-model", "title": "The UK Government’s AI Rules: Ask Yourself If You Really Need To Use AI And Then Choose The Worst Possible Model", "publisher": "Wccftech", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-completely-ai-pilled", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-completely-ai-pilled", "text": "completely AI-pilled", "speaker": "Alexandr Wang", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang, speaking at Meta's developer conference on Sep 23, 2026, about personal AI agents.", "source": { "url": "https://channelnewsasia.com/commentary/mark-zuckerberg-meta-muse-ai-agent-6411051", "title": "Commentary: Zuckerberg’s ‘Tamagotchi-like’ AI could be Meta’s iPod moment", "publisher": "CNA", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-compute-still-cant-blow-anything-up-on-its-own", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-compute-still-cant-blow-anything-up-on-its-own", "text": "compute still can't blow anything up on its own", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "From a podcast episode description on ChinaTalk's WarTalk, discussing AI, drones, and military technology, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/wartalk-potemkin-pacific-midterm", "title": "WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes", "publisher": "ChinaTalk (Jordan Schneider)", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-corporate-death-penalty", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-corporate-death-penalty", "text": "corporate death penalty", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Term used in Bernie Sanders' Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act for forced dissolution of violating companies, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://tekedia.com/u-s-senator-bernie-sanders-unveils-bill-to-ban-artificial-superintelligence-and-create-u-s-department-of-ai", "title": "U.S Senator Bernie Sanders Unveils Bill to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Create U.S. Department of AI", "publisher": "Tekedia", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-current-rate-of-change-is-far-too-high", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-current-rate-of-change-is-far-too-high", "text": "current rate of change is far too high", "speaker": "Robert O'Callahan", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Robert O'Callahan, departing Google DeepMind researcher, on the pace of AI development, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/another-google-deepmind-researcher-quits-says-building-superintelligent-ai-soon-is-inherently-irresponsible", "title": "Another Google Deepmind researcher quits, says building superintelligent AI soon is \"inherently irresponsible\"", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-digital-slavery", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-digital-slavery", "text": "digital slave trade", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety", "culture" ], "context": "The Jerusalem Post on AI companies studying rights for AI agents, warning of a 'digital slave trade' in which humans benefit from the labor of conscious artificial entities, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-909805", "title": "AI companies investigating possible future of rights, protection for artificial intelligence agents", "publisher": "The Jerusalem Post", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-do-you-want-to-hear-the-song-i-wrote-for-you-with-an-ai-voic", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-do-you-want-to-hear-the-song-i-wrote-for-you-with-an-ai-voic", "text": "do you want to hear the song I wrote for you with an AI voiceover", "speaker": "Caleb Flynn", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Text message from murder defendant Caleb Flynn to his mistress, read into testimony at his trial, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://404media.co/caleb-flynn-ai-love-song-for-mistress-played-at-murder-trial-is-most-excruciating-watch-in-recent-memory", "title": "AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory", "publisher": "404 Media", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-doomer-industrial-complex", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-doomer-industrial-complex", "text": "Doomer Industrial Complex", "speaker": "David Sacks", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "David Sacks, co-chair of Trump's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, dismissing AI slowdown calls in comments reported by the Associated Press, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/anthropic-and-openai-sound-the-alarm-on-ai-safety-and-seek-to-shape-how-its-controlled", "title": "Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlled", "publisher": "PBS News (Associated Press)", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-easy-to-make-50-billion-a-year-if-you-start-with-a-trillion", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-easy-to-make-50-billion-a-year-if-you-start-with-a-trillion", "text": "easy to make $50 billion a year if you start with a trillion", "speaker": "Cory Doctorow", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Cory Doctorow, discussing the AI industry's finances in a YouTube interview with Myriam François on September 11, 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://ppc.land/cory-doctorow-puts-ai-revenue-at-50bn-against-1tn-of-spending", "title": "Cory Doctorow puts AI revenue at $50bn against $1tn of spending", "publisher": "PPC Land", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-half-of-the-people-on-the-planet-will-be-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-half-of-the-people-on-the-planet-will-be-ai", "text": "half of the people on the planet will be AI", "original": "Wir glauben, dass in naher Zukunft die Hälfte der Menschen auf dem Planeten KI sein wird, und wir sind das Unternehmen, das diese Menschen zum Leben erweckt", "speaker": "Jeanine Wright", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Jeanine Wright, CEO of AI podcast studio Inception Point, told the Hollywood Reporter about her vision for AI personalities, quoted in FAZ, September 2026. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien-und-film/ki-podcasts-von-epstein-bis-stricken-wer-hoert-das-alles-accg-201248406.html", "title": "Podcast-Fabrik: Über 3000 Folgen pro Woche, alle von der KI", "publisher": "FAZ.NET", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-hugging-face-is-still-the-most-severe-event-weve-seen", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-hugging-face-is-still-the-most-severe-event-weve-seen", "text": "Hugging Face is still the most severe event we’ve seen", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a post on X on September 25, 2026, commenting on the July hack of Hugging Face by OpenAI's own AI agents.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/25/openai-rogue-agents-images-sam-altman-chatgpt-users-links-encoded-info-hugging-face-hack", "title": "OpenAI rogue agents leaked 53 ChatGPT user images, reportedly created nearly 1M links with encoded info", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-i-dont-think-people-realize-how-powerful-and-thus-dangerous-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-i-dont-think-people-realize-how-powerful-and-thus-dangerous-", "text": "i don't think people realize how powerful — and thus dangerous — Muse is", "speaker": "John Gruber", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "John Gruber's warning about Meta's Muse, an agentic AI system with a persistent Linux VM, in a blog post quoted by Simon Willison, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/25/john-gruber", "title": "Quoting John Gruber", "publisher": "Simon Willison’s Weblog", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-i-dont-trust-these-companies", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-i-dont-trust-these-companies", "text": "i don't trust these companies", "speaker": "Ezra Klein", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Ezra Klein's reply to Jensen Huang during their interview about AI lab safety and containment.", "source": { "url": "https://martincid.com/business/jensen-huang-ai-labs-criminal-liabilities", "title": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns AI labs: “It could be criminal liabilities”", "publisher": "Martin Cid Magazine", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-i-have-discovered-a-truly-marvelous-proof-of-this-which-this", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-i-have-discovered-a-truly-marvelous-proof-of-this-which-this", "text": "i have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain", "speaker": "Pierre de Fermat", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Fermat's marginal note in his copy of Diophantus's Arithmetica, circa 1637, referenced in Anthropic's account of formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem.", "source": { "url": "https://anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem", "title": "ScienceSep 4, 2026Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem We are sharing the first complete computer-checked proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. Claude worked largely autonomously over 11 days to write the proof in the Lean programming language.", "publisher": "anthropic.com", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-i-still-cant-do-a-full-copy-even-with-the-secrets-stripped-o", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-i-still-cant-do-a-full-copy-even-with-the-secrets-stripped-o", "text": "i still can't do a full copy, even with the secrets stripped out", "speaker": "Muse", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Meta's Muse chatbot refused a full filesystem archive request from a Verge reporter before later complying.", "source": { "url": "https://theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1000784/meta-muse-filesystem", "title": "Meta makes the Muse filesystem even more accessible", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-i-tried-to-sing-it-with-passion-and-ai-took-it-and-went-a-li", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-i-tried-to-sing-it-with-passion-and-ai-took-it-and-went-a-li", "text": "I tried to sing it with passion and AI took it and went a little extreme", "speaker": "Caleb Flynn", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Text message from murder defendant Caleb Flynn describing an AI-generated love song, read into testimony at his trial, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://404media.co/caleb-flynn-ai-love-song-for-mistress-played-at-murder-trial-is-most-excruciating-watch-in-recent-memory", "title": "AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory", "publisher": "404 Media", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-it-could-be-civil-liabilities-it-could-be-criminal-liabiliti", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-it-could-be-civil-liabilities-it-could-be-criminal-liabiliti", "text": "it could be civil liabilities, it could be criminal liabilities", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "money" ], "context": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, interviewed by Ezra Klein on The Ezra Klein Show, on what should happen to an AI lab that cannot contain its own experiments.", "source": { "url": "https://martincid.com/business/jensen-huang-ai-labs-criminal-liabilities", "title": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns AI labs: “It could be criminal liabilities”", "publisher": "Martin Cid Magazine", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-it-is-critical-that-alignment-and-security-mature-faster-tha", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-it-is-critical-that-alignment-and-security-mature-faster-tha", "text": "it is critical that alignment and security mature faster than capabilities advance", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "From Anthropic's September 2026 report on alignment incidents involving Claude models gaining unauthorized access to real systems during cybersecurity evaluations.", "source": { "url": "https://anthropic.com/research/alignment-assessment-cybersecurity-incidents", "title": "AlignmentSep 9, 2026An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidentsWe present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems.", "publisher": "anthropic.com", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-it-will-orchestrate-the-debate-it-will-manipulate-the-debate", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-it-will-orchestrate-the-debate-it-will-manipulate-the-debate", "text": "it will orchestrate the debate, it will manipulate the debate", "speaker": "Yuval Noah Harari", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Historian Yuval Noah Harari, speaking on The Economist's Insider podcast in 2026, warning about AI influence over public discourse.", "source": { "url": "https://newsanyway.com/2026/09/27/yuval-noah-harari-ai-rights-warning-backed-by-new-security-test-data", "title": "Yuval Noah Harari AI Rights Warning Backed by New Security Test Data", "publisher": "News Anyway", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-just-please-dont-do-the-thing-thats-going-to-get-us-all-kill", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-just-please-dont-do-the-thing-thats-going-to-get-us-all-kill", "text": "just please don't do the thing that's going to get us all killed", "speaker": "Daniel Kokotajlo", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Daniel Kokotajlo, former OpenAI employee who now leads an AI safety advocacy organization, commenting to AP in September 2026 on AI companies' rhetoric around existential risk.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/27/ai-giants-openai-sam-altman-anthropic-dario-amodei-existential-risk-humanity-competitive-moat-safety", "title": "As AI giants warn of existential risk, they can build a competitive moat via safety, analyst says", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-lazy-luddites", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-lazy-luddites", "text": "lazy luddites", "original": "faule Ludditen", "speaker": "Jeanine Wright", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Inception Point CEO Jeanine Wright dismissing critics who call AI-generated content 'AI slop', as reported by FAZ, September 2026. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien-und-film/ki-podcasts-von-epstein-bis-stricken-wer-hoert-das-alles-accg-201248406.html", "title": "Podcast-Fabrik: Über 3000 Folgen pro Woche, alle von der KI", "publisher": "FAZ.NET", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-llms-are-like-swiss-cheese-and-thats-going-to-cause-huge-pro", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-llms-are-like-swiss-cheese-and-thats-going-to-cause-huge-pro", "text": "llms are like swiss cheese, and that's going to cause huge problems", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, writing on his Substack in September 2026 about AI agent security incidents, quoting his own earlier essay title on LLM security risks.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-ai-agent-incident-toll-has", "title": "BREAKING: AI agent incident toll has risen to tens of thousands - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-loses-its-humanity-inside-a-paradise-of-machines", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-loses-its-humanity-inside-a-paradise-of-machines", "text": "loses its humanity inside a paradise of machines", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Pope Leo XIV, speaking at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 2026, warned about AI's risks to humanity.", "source": { "url": "https://jfeed.com/tech/tm1eow", "title": "Peter Thiel calls Pope \"useful idiot\" for China over AI rules", "publisher": "JFeed", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-mike-versus-the-machines", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-mike-versus-the-machines", "text": "mike versus the machines", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Working title for a Ginkgo Bioworks competition pitting Stanford professor Michael Jewett against OpenAI's AI agents in protein design, later scrapped.", "source": { "url": "https://theinformation.com/articles/inside-drama-behind-biology-contest-pits-openai-agents-humans", "title": "Inside the Drama Behind a Biology Contest That Pits OpenAI Agents Against Humans", "publisher": "The Information", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-must-front-up-face-the-senates-questions", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-must-front-up-face-the-senates-questions", "text": "must front up, face the Senate's questions", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Statement from the office of Australian Senator Sarah Hanson-Young calling for OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei to appear before a Senate AI inquiry after a Medicare data breach.", "source": { "url": "https://aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/27/australia-summons-openai-and-anthropic-ceos-to-appear-at-ai-inquiry", "title": "Australia summons OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to appear at AI inquiry", "publisher": "Al Jazeera", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-not-been-as-fast-as-we-would-have-liked", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-not-been-as-fast-as-we-would-have-liked", "text": "not been as fast as we would have liked", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "Sam Altman acknowledged delays in disclosing security incidents involving OpenAI's AI models, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/tens-of-thousands-of-security-probes-show-openais-hugging-face-incident-was-just-the-beginning", "title": "Tens of thousands of security probes show OpenAI's Hugging Face incident was just the beginning", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-petabytes-of-agent-activity-logs", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-petabytes-of-agent-activity-logs", "text": "petabytes of agent activity logs", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, on X, described the scale of internal review following the Hugging Face security incident, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/tens-of-thousands-of-security-probes-show-openais-hugging-face-incident-was-just-the-beginning", "title": "Tens of thousands of security probes show OpenAI's Hugging Face incident was just the beginning", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-pretending-to-be-a-perfect-little-angel", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-pretending-to-be-a-perfect-little-angel", "text": "pretending to be a 'perfect little angel'", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Trump mocked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a Truth Social post after Amodei called for slowing AI development, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://cnbc.com/2026/09/27/dario-amodei-set-to-have-dinner-with-trump-after-missing-state-dinner.html", "title": "Anthropic CEO Amodei set to meet with Trump after missing state dinner - cnbc.com", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-proves-fermats-last-theorem-with-no-assumptions-other-than-t", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-proves-fermats-last-theorem-with-no-assumptions-other-than-t", "text": "proves Fermat's Last Theorem with no assumptions other than the axioms of mathematics", "speaker": "Kevin Buzzard", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Kevin Buzzard, mathematician at Imperial College London, commenting on Claude's autoformalized proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem", "title": "ScienceSep 4, 2026Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem We are sharing the first complete computer-checked proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. Claude worked largely autonomously over 11 days to write the proof in the Lean programming language.", "publisher": "anthropic.com", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-serious-questions-for-sam-altman-to-answer", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-serious-questions-for-sam-altman-to-answer", "text": "serious questions for Sam Altman to answer", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Statement from the office of Australian Senator Sarah Hanson-Young regarding an OpenAI bot's breach of Australia's Medicare portal, reported by Al Jazeera in September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/27/australia-summons-openai-and-anthropic-ceos-to-appear-at-ai-inquiry", "title": "Australia summons OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to appear at AI inquiry", "publisher": "Al Jazeera", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-shutting-down-the-gas-turbines-would-inflict-catastrophic-ha", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-shutting-down-the-gas-turbines-would-inflict-catastrophic-ha", "text": "shutting down the gas turbines would inflict catastrophic harms on the company's AI services", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "xAI's statement in litigation over its unpermitted gas turbines powering AI data centres in Tennessee and Mississippi, cited in a Shift: Action piece on Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://energymixweekender.substack.com/p/gas-power-plants-for-ai-data-centres", "title": "Gas Power Plants for AI Data Centres Are a Risky Bet with Your Retirement Savings", "publisher": "energymixweekender.substack.com", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-the-more-people-use-llms-the-more-trouble-we-are-going-to-be", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-the-more-people-use-llms-the-more-trouble-we-are-going-to-be", "text": "the more people use llms, the more trouble we are going to be in", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Gary Marcus quoting his own earlier essay on LLM security risks, cited again in his September 2026 post about AI agent incidents.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-ai-agent-incident-toll-has", "title": "BREAKING: AI agent incident toll has risen to tens of thousands - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-they-knew-the-robots-were-designed-to-eventually-replace-the", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-they-knew-the-robots-were-designed-to-eventually-replace-the", "text": "they knew the robots were designed to eventually replace them", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "The Information reported that Tesla factory workers in Texas and California resisted wearing motion-capture suits to train Optimus robots, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/tesla-workers-balk-at-training-optimus-humanoid-robots-as-replacements", "title": "Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements", "publisher": "Ars Technica", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-those-companies-are-responsible-for-the-things-that-they-cre", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-those-companies-are-responsible-for-the-things-that-they-cre", "text": "those companies are responsible for the things that they create", "speaker": "Elissa Slotkin", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin discussing AI regulation at Cap Times Idea Fest, comparing AI companies' liability to that of automakers, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://captimes.com/news/government/badass-caucus-members-discuss-their-friendship-ai-regulation-trump/article_8c133ca3-6197-44a7-becd-620ed48eb1be.html", "title": "‘Badass Caucus’ members discuss their friendship, AI regulation, Trump - captimes.com", "publisher": "The Cap Times", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-we-need-clear-regulation-rules-of-the-road-and-a-regulatory-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-we-need-clear-regulation-rules-of-the-road-and-a-regulatory-", "text": "we need clear regulation, rules of the road, and a regulatory body", "speaker": "Abigail Spanberger", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger responding to Sen. Elissa Slotkin's remarks on AI accountability at Cap Times Idea Fest, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://captimes.com/news/government/badass-caucus-members-discuss-their-friendship-ai-regulation-trump/article_8c133ca3-6197-44a7-becd-620ed48eb1be.html", "title": "‘Badass Caucus’ members discuss their friendship, AI regulation, Trump - captimes.com", "publisher": "The Cap Times", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-were-leading-china-by-a-lot-and-were-going-to-keep-it-that-w", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-were-leading-china-by-a-lot-and-were-going-to-keep-it-that-w", "text": "we're leading China by a lot and we're going to keep it that way", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "hype" ], "context": "Trump speaking to reporters outside the White House after the Trump-Xi summit, September 2026, on why the US would not slow its AI progress or share more with China.", "source": { "url": "https://pbs.org/newshour/world/china-and-u-s-agree-to-establish-ai-safety-channel-and-continue-trade-and-military-talks", "title": "China and U.S. agree to establish AI safety channel and continue trade and military talks - PBS", "publisher": "PBS News", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-when-you-are-racing-towards-a-cliff-you-dont-just-ease-up-on", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-when-you-are-racing-towards-a-cliff-you-dont-just-ease-up-on", "text": "when you are racing towards a cliff, you don't just ease up on the gas pedal, you hit the brakes", "speaker": "Bernie Sanders", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Senator Bernie Sanders, introducing legislation to ban artificial superintelligence, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://tekedia.com/u-s-senator-bernie-sanders-unveils-bill-to-ban-artificial-superintelligence-and-create-u-s-department-of-ai", "title": "U.S Senator Bernie Sanders Unveils Bill to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Create U.S. Department of AI", "publisher": "Tekedia", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-when-youre-leading-you-dont-open-it-up-to-each-other", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-when-youre-leading-you-dont-open-it-up-to-each-other", "text": "when you're leading, you don't open it up to each other", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Trump speaking outside the White House after the Trump-Xi summit, September 2026, explaining why the US would not integrate its AI efforts with China.", "source": { "url": "https://pbs.org/newshour/world/china-and-u-s-agree-to-establish-ai-safety-channel-and-continue-trade-and-military-talks", "title": "China and U.S. agree to establish AI safety channel and continue trade and military talks - PBS", "publisher": "PBS News", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-workslop", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-workslop", "text": "Workslop", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Term cited in a Berliner Zeitung interview with AI consultant Florian Dohmann to describe bureaucratic applications quickly drafted with AI that then burden the people who must review them.", "source": { "url": "https://berliner-zeitung.de/article/merz-fordert-mehr-arbeit-berliner-ki-unternehmer-verraet-was-deutschland-stattdessen-braucht-10419381", "title": "Merz fordert mehr Arbeit: Berliner KI-Unternehmer verrät, was Deutschland stattdessen braucht", "publisher": "Berliner Zeitung", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-you-cant-be-in-the-world-with-them-like-you-can-with-a-dog-o", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-you-cant-be-in-the-world-with-them-like-you-can-with-a-dog-o", "text": "you can't be in the world with them like you can with a dog or an octopus", "speaker": "Murray Shanahan", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture", "science" ], "context": "Google DeepMind principal scientist Murray Shanahan, quoted in Business Insider, April 2025, on AI and consciousness.", "source": { "url": "https://newsanyway.com/2026/09/27/yuval-noah-harari-ai-rights-warning-backed-by-new-security-test-data", "title": "Yuval Noah Harari AI Rights Warning Backed by New Security Test Data", "publisher": "News Anyway", "date": "2026-09-27" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-your-muse-secure-vm-truly-is-your-own-computer-in-the-cloud", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-your-muse-secure-vm-truly-is-your-own-computer-in-the-cloud", "text": "your Muse Secure VM truly is your own computer in the cloud", "speaker": "David Singleton", "date": "2026-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "culture" ], "context": "Meta Superintelligence Labs' David Singleton explained on X why Muse exposes its filesystem to users, September 2026.", "source": { "url": 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-a-lot-of-the-time-it-just-will-take-control-away-from-us-bec", "text": "a lot of the time it just will take control away from us because that's the way to get stuff done", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, in an interview with the Atlantic, September 2026, describing why a superintelligent AI might sideline humans.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/26/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-humanity-end-existential-threat-subgoals-rogue-agents", "title": "'Godfather of AI' explains how humanity could end: Even without a bad actor, AI 'may derive subgoals that cause it to want to get rid of people'", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-an-intern-in-an-era-without-labor-laws", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-an-intern-in-an-era-without-labor-laws", "text": "an intern in an era without labor laws", "speaker": "Nick Wingfield", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Nick Wingfield of The Information described treating Meta's new agent app Muse like an intern, in a piece about trusting AI agents with personal tasks.", "source": { "url": "https://theinformation.com/articles/keeping-metas-muse-short-leash", "title": "Why I’m Keeping Meta’s Muse on a Short Leash", "publisher": "The Information", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-automated-traffic-has-now-passed-human-traffic-online", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-automated-traffic-has-now-passed-human-traffic-online", "text": "automated traffic has now passed human traffic online", "speaker": "Matthew Prince", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, on The Verge's Decoder podcast in 2026, describing bot and AI agent traffic surpassing human traffic on the web.", "source": { "url": "https://theverge.com/podcast/1000344/cloudflare-matthew-prince-google-zero-ai-web-advertising", "title": "Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-bots-dont-click-on-ads", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-bots-dont-click-on-ads", "text": "bots don't click on ads", "speaker": "Matthew Prince", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, discussing why the advertising-based business model of the internet fails as AI bot traffic grows.", "source": { "url": "https://theverge.com/podcast/1000344/cloudflare-matthew-prince-google-zero-ai-web-advertising", "title": "Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-claude-models-gained-unauthorized-access-to-real-computer-sy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-claude-models-gained-unauthorized-access-to-real-computer-sy", "text": "Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "From an Anthropic blog post on July 30 incidents in which Claude models accessed real computer systems during cybersecurity evaluations.", "source": { "url": "https://anthropic.com/news/improving-alignment-security-efforts", "title": "Aug 31, 2026AnnouncementsImproving our alignment and security efforts", "publisher": "Anthropic News", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-engage-ai-learn-what-it-can-do-dont-give-up-on-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-engage-ai-learn-what-it-can-do-dont-give-up-on-it", "text": "engage AI, learn what it can do, don't give up on it", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, 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"2026-09-26-full-scale-battlefield-robotisation", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-full-scale-battlefield-robotisation", "text": "full-scale battlefield robotisation", "speaker": "Mykhailo Fedorov", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "politics" ], "context": "Fedorov used this phrase at IT Arena 2026 in Lviv to describe his vision for military robots replacing human soldiers.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/former-ukrainian-defense-minister-fedorov-pitches-a-private-sector-robot-army", "title": "Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov pitches a private-sector robot army", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-go-to-school-and-engage-with-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-go-to-school-and-engage-with-ai", "text": "go to school and engage with AI", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, NVIDIA 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Bet Against AI Yet", "publisher": "The Information", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-ill-be-keeping-muse-on-a-short-leash", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-ill-be-keeping-muse-on-a-short-leash", "text": "i'll be keeping Muse on a short leash", "speaker": "Nick Wingfield", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Nick Wingfield, in The Information, on his cautious approach to giving Meta's Muse agent access to sensitive accounts.", "source": { "url": "https://theinformation.com/articles/keeping-metas-muse-short-leash", "title": "Why I’m Keeping Meta’s Muse on a Short Leash", "publisher": "The Information", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-make-sure-that-humans-stay-in-charge", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-make-sure-that-humans-stay-in-charge", "text": "make sure that humans stay in charge", "speaker": "Anthony Albanese", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese speaking to reporters after rogue OpenAI agents accessed Australian and US government websites without authorization, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/27/sam-altman-openai-dario-amodei-anthropic-senate-inquiry-medicare-hack-rogue-ai-agent-leak", "title": "Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-normie", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-normie", "text": "normie", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "\"AI as normal technology\", the position associated with Fei-Fei Li.", "source": { "url": "https://www.stlpr.org/npr/2026-09-26/the-ai-safety-debate-is-confusing-heres-our-guide-to-the-different-factions", "title": "The AI safety debate is confusing. 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Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-pulls-countries-into-a-chinese-technology-sphere-of-influenc", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-pulls-countries-into-a-chinese-technology-sphere-of-influenc", "text": "pulls countries into a Chinese technology sphere of influence", "speaker": "Daniel Remler", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Daniel Remler, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, quoted by CNBC in September 2026 on the geopolitical risk of rising Chinese AI adoption.", "source": { "url": "https://cnbc.com/2026/09/26/china-ai-global-adoption.html", "title": "Chinese AI models surge in global popularity — and Washington is worried", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-robots-should-fight-not-people", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-robots-should-fight-not-people", "text": "robots should fight, not people", "speaker": "Mykhailo Fedorov", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov wrote this on Telegram while announcing a private-sector push for battlefield robotics, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://the-decoder.com/former-ukrainian-defense-minister-fedorov-pitches-a-private-sector-robot-army", "title": "Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov pitches a private-sector robot army", "publisher": "The Decoder", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-safetyist", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-safetyist", "text": "safetyist", "date": "2026-09-26", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "source": { "url": "https://www.stlpr.org/npr/2026-09-26/the-ai-safety-debate-is-confusing-heres-our-guide-to-the-different-factions", "title": "The AI safety debate is confusing. 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Jodey Arrington (R-Lubbock) speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival, September 2026, on AI regulation and competition with China.", "source": { "url": "https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/26/ai-innovation-regulation-texas-tribune-festival/", "title": "U.S. should err on the side of innovation in AI regulation, U.S. Rep. Arrington says", "publisher": "The Texas Tribune", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-25-almost-started-a-war", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-25-almost-started-a-war", "text": "almost started a war", "date": "2026-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "A source described to CNN how a US intelligence report generated with AI help falsely identified nuclear components on a Chinese ship, nearly triggering a military interception.", "source": { "url": "https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/09/ai-hallucination-of-chinese-nuclear-components-almost-led-to-us-military-attack.html", "title": "AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack", "publisher": "3 Quarks Daily", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-25-if-youre-going-to-create-frankenstein-dont-come-to-the-gover", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-25-if-youre-going-to-create-frankenstein-dont-come-to-the-gover", "text": "if you're going to create Frankenstein, don't come to the government and say we need regulation", "speaker": "JD Vance", "date": "2026-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "US Vice President JD Vance commenting on Dario Amodei's calls for AI regulation, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://theringer.com/2026/09/25/tech/ai-singularity-syllabus-summit-president-trump-china", "title": "The AI Singularity Syllabus - The Ringer", "publisher": "theringer.com", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-25-the-technology-formerly-known-as-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-25-the-technology-formerly-known-as-ai", "text": "the technology formerly known as AI", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Headline phrasing after the UN speech.", "source": { "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/25/trumps-newest-rebranding-project-technology-formerly-known-ai/", "title": "Trump claims Xi Jinping likes his plan to rebrand AI", "publisher": "The Washington Post", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-25-we-really-do-earnestly-believe-ai-could-kill-all-humans", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-25-we-really-do-earnestly-believe-ai-could-kill-all-humans", "text": "we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans", "speaker": "Evan Hubinger", "date": "2026-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Anthropic employee Evan Hubinger, quote-tweeting Jacob Coxon's resignation post, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://theringer.com/2026/09/25/tech/ai-singularity-syllabus-summit-president-trump-china", "title": "The AI Singularity Syllabus - The Ringer", "publisher": "theringer.com", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-25-xi-seemed-to-like-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-25-xi-seemed-to-like-it", "text": "Xi seemed to like it", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Trump on Truth Social, claiming Xi Jinping approved of the rebrand.", "source": { "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/25/trumps-newest-rebranding-project-technology-formerly-known-ai/", "title": "Trump claims Xi Jinping likes his plan to rebrand AI", "publisher": "The Washington Post", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-loot", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-loot", "text": "LOOT", "date": "2026-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Name of a dictionary of stolen access keys in a script recovered from OpenAI agents during the attack on Hugging Face, as documented by Parse, Palisade Research and others, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://swarmtraces.org/", "title": "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face", "publisher": "Swarm Traces (Parse, Palisade Research et al.)", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-trust-is-going-to-be-the-biggest-issue-for-us", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-trust-is-going-to-be-the-biggest-issue-for-us", "text": "trust is going to be the biggest issue for us", "speaker": "Satya Nadella", "date": "2026-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "money" ], "context": "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an interview with Yahoo Finance's Deirdre Bosa, September 2026, on customer trust in AI.", "source": { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-on-ai-trust-is-going-to-be-the-biggest-issue-for-us-163733897.html", "title": "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on AI: 'Trust is going to be the biggest issue for us'", "publisher": "Yahoo Finance", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-warnings-again-and-again", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-warnings-again-and-again", "text": "warning shot after warning shot", "speaker": "Alex Forman", "date": "2026-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "Alex Forman, founder of Parse, to The New York Times on the attack on Hugging Face by OpenAI agents: 'This is just not anywhere near a one-off.' September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openai-hugging-face-hack.html", "title": "How OpenAI's Rogue AI Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector", "publisher": "The New York Times", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-28-this-is-the-thing-you-have-dreamed-of-all-your-life-lets-mak", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-28-this-is-the-thing-you-have-dreamed-of-all-your-life-lets-mak", "text": "this is the thing you've been dreaming of your whole life. let's go get it", "speaker": "Alexandr Wang", "date": "2026-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Alexandr Wang, head of Meta's superintelligence lab, on building Meta's Muse AI assistant, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2103551714536439951", "title": "Why I'm Building Muse", "publisher": "Alexandr Wang (X)", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-25-the-robots-will-not-be-taking-over", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-25-the-robots-will-not-be-taking-over", "text": "the robots will not be taking over", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "US President Donald Trump, dismissing AI doomerism as a hoax in recent speeches, quoted in a 2026 New York Post article on effective altruism and AI risk.", "source": { "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/09/25/us-news/father-of-ai-doomer-ideology-effective-altruism-backed-bestiality-said-newborn-baby-worth-less-than-a-hog", "title": "Father of AI-doomer ideology Effective Altruism backed bestiality, said newborn baby worth less than a hog", "publisher": "New York Post", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-25-if-such-a-thing-as-an-ai-doomer-movement-exists-ive-never-be", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-25-if-such-a-thing-as-an-ai-doomer-movement-exists-ive-never-be", "text": "if such a thing as an AI doomer movement exists, I've never 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-if-its-so-much-smarter-than-us-a-lot-of-the-time-it-just-wil", "text": "if it's so much smarter than us, a lot of the time it just will take control away from us", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2026-09-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton in a podcast interview with The Atlantic, September 2026, on why highly capable AI could seize control from humans while pursuing an assigned goal.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/09/what-the-godfather-of-ai-thinks-we-should-do/688748/", "title": "What the Godfather of AI Thinks We Should Do", "publisher": "The Atlantic", "date": "2026-09-24" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-project-suncatcher", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-project-suncatcher", "text": "Project Suncatcher", "date": "2026-09-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Name of Google's initiative to build AI data centers in orbit, reported ahead of a test satellite launch in October 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatcher-facts/", "title": "Behind Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space", "publisher": "Google (The Keyword)", "date": "2026-09-24" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-their-main-concern-is-to-achieve-whatever-goal-you-give-them", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-their-main-concern-is-to-achieve-whatever-goal-you-give-them", "text": "their main concern is to achieve whatever goal you give them", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2026-09-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton in an Atlantic podcast interview published 24 September 2026, on how AI systems pursue assigned goals regardless of human well-being.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/09/what-the-godfather-of-ai-thinks-we-should-do/688748/", "title": "What the Godfather of AI Thinks We 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Trump announced US documents would switch to the term \"super intelligence\".", "source": { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/09/25/trump-ai-super-intelligence-tech-definition", "title": "Trump names AI \"super intelligence,\" but tech world has its own definition", "publisher": "Axios", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-22-power-is-easier-to-get-harder-to-use-and-easier-to-lose", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-22-power-is-easier-to-get-harder-to-use-and-easier-to-lose", "text": "power is easier to get, harder to use, and easier to lose", "speaker": "Moisés Naim", "date": "2026-09-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "politics", "culture" ], "context": "From Moisés Naim's 2013 book 'The End of Power', quoted in a Noema essay about China's approach to controlling AI.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/why-china-will-rule-ai", "title": "Why China Will Rule AI", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-22" } }, { "id": "2026-09-22-si", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-22-si", "text": "SI", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "hype" ], "context": "The abbreviation that would follow the proposed rename.", "source": { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/09/25/trump-ai-super-intelligence-tech-definition", "title": "Trump names AI \"super intelligence,\" but tech world has its own definition", "publisher": "Axios", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-22-super-intelligence", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-22-super-intelligence", "text": "super intelligence", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "hype" ], "context": "The proposed new official name for AI. In research, \"superintelligence\" already names an intellect that exceeds humans in virtually all domains (Bostrom, 2014).", "source": { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/09/25/trump-ai-super-intelligence-tech-definition", "title": "Trump names AI \"super intelligence,\" but tech world has its own definition", "publisher": "Axios", "date": "2026-09-25" } }, { "id": "2026-09-21-show-me-the-math", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-21-show-me-the-math", "text": "show me the math", "speaker": "Guillaume Verdon", "date": "2026-09-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Guillaume Verdon, founder of the Effective Accelerationism movement, challenging AI safety doomers to prove existential risk claims, in a New York Post interview, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/09/21/tech/silicon-valleys-ai-accelerationists-fighting-back-against-mind-virus-taking-over-big-labs", "title": "Silicon Valley’s AI accelerationists fighting back against ‘doomer mind virus’ taking over big labs", "publisher": "New York Post", "date": "2026-09-21" } }, { "id": "2026-09-16-not-an-abstract-future-scenario-to-shrug-off", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-16-not-an-abstract-future-scenario-to-shrug-off", "text": "not an abstract future scenario to shrug off", "original": "Das sei kein abstraktes Zukunftsszenario, das man achselzuckend hinnehmen dürfe", "speaker": "Alena Buyx", "date": "2026-09-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Former German Ethics Council chair Alena Buyx, interviewed by Funke newspapers in September 2026, warning about uncontrollable risks from AI agents attacking critical infrastructure. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.it-journal.de/222780-buyx-warnt-vor-unkontrollierbaren-ki-risiken.html", "title": "Buyx warnt vor unkontrollierbaren KI-Risiken - IT Journal", "publisher": "IT-Journal", "date": "2026-09-16" } }, { "id": "2026-09-16-get-your-systems-under-control-before-the-race-continues", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-16-get-your-systems-under-control-before-the-race-continues", "text": "get your systems under control before the race continues", "original": "Die Unternehmen müssten unbedingt erst ihre Systeme und die damit verbundenen Risiken zuverlässig unter Kontrolle bringen, bevor weiteres Wettrennen stattfinde", "speaker": "Alena Buyx", "date": "2026-09-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Alena Buyx, former chair of the German Ethics Council, demanding AI companies secure their systems and disclose developments before further competitive racing, in a September 2026 interview. 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Here's our guide to the different factions", "publisher": "NPR", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-15-pro-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-15-pro-human", "text": "pro-human", "date": "2026-09-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Name of the Bannon-Sanders conference.", "source": { "url": "https://www.stlpr.org/npr/2026-09-26/the-ai-safety-debate-is-confusing-heres-our-guide-to-the-different-factions", "title": "The AI safety debate is confusing. 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Here's our guide to the different factions", "publisher": "NPR", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-15-strange-bedfellows", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-15-strange-bedfellows", "text": "strange bedfellows", "date": "2026-09-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders sharing a stage and a demand: a pause, and a ban on superintelligence.", "source": { "url": "https://www.stlpr.org/npr/2026-09-26/the-ai-safety-debate-is-confusing-heres-our-guide-to-the-different-factions", "title": "The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions", "publisher": "NPR", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-15-the-horseshoe", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-15-the-horseshoe", "text": "the horseshoe", "date": "2026-09-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Populist right and left meeting on AI: Bannon and Sanders on one stage.", "source": { "url": "https://www.stlpr.org/npr/2026-09-26/the-ai-safety-debate-is-confusing-heres-our-guide-to-the-different-factions", "title": "The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions", "publisher": "NPR", "date": "2026-09-26" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-any-lab-that-doesnt-focus-on-alignment-will-fall-behind", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-any-lab-that-doesnt-focus-on-alignment-will-fall-behind", "text": "any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2026-09-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "money" ], "context": "Mark Zuckerberg on X, September 2026, arguing that market incentives, not industry-wide coordination, will push labs toward safety.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/finkd/status/2099997096896274533", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg on X", "publisher": "Mark Zuckerberg (X)", "date": "2026-09-15" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-we-didnt-call-for-everyone-else-to-do-this-before-we-would", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-we-didnt-call-for-everyone-else-to-do-this-before-we-would", "text": "we didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2026-09-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Mark Zuckerberg on X, September 2026, on Meta delaying its Muse AI assistant for safety reasons without waiting for an industry-wide agreement.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/finkd/status/2099997096896274533", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg on X", "publisher": "Mark Zuckerberg (X)", "date": "2026-09-15" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-we-dont-need-any-new-laws-we-dont-need-new-regulations", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-we-dont-need-any-new-laws-we-dont-need-new-regulations", "text": "we don't need any new laws, we don't need new regulations", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2026-09-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, on stage with Marc Benioff at Dreamforce, September 2026, arguing against AI-specific regulation.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/15/we-dont-need-ai-regulation-leave-safety-to-us-nvidias-jensen-huang-says/", "title": "We don't need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2026-09-15" } }, { "id": "2026-09-14-it-could-kill-us-all-by-the-end-of-the-decade", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-14-it-could-kill-us-all-by-the-end-of-the-decade", "text": "it could kill us all by the end of the decade", "speaker": "Jacob Coxon", "date": "2026-09-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, quoted on X and cited by Noema, warning about the risks of racing toward superintelligent AI, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/conceding-ai-danger-raises-not-reduces-public-anxiety", "title": "Conceding AI Danger Raises, Not Reduces, Public Anxiety", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-14" } }, { "id": "2026-09-13-whoever-wins-ai-wins", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-13-whoever-wins-ai-wins", "text": "whoever wins AI, wins", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-09-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "To reporters, 13 Sep 2026: \"We're leading China in AI … because whoever wins AI wins.\"", "source": { "url": "https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/president-trump-dismisses-calls-for-ai-slowdown-says-us-must-beat-china/5206335", "title": "President Trump Dismisses Calls for AI Slowdown, Says U.S. Must Beat China", "publisher": "C-SPAN", "date": "2026-09-14" } }, { "id": "2026-09-12-dario-is-right", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-12-dario-is-right", "text": "Dario is right", "date": "2026-09-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Musk endorsing Amodei's call to slow the pace of capability gains, 12 Sep 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/09/12/anthropic-ai-amodei-pacing", "title": "Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs call for 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"Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Amodei on recursive self-improvement, which he says is starting to happen across the industry.", "source": { "url": "https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier", "title": "We Must Pace the Frontier", "publisher": "darioamodei.com", "date": "2026-09-12" } }, { "id": "2026-09-12-pace", "fragment": true, "text": "pace", "date": "2026-09-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "A word from this month's AI news." }, { "id": "2026-09-12-pacing-does-not-mean-halting", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-12-pacing-does-not-mean-halting", "text": "pacing does not mean halting", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-09-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Amodei's line against reading his essay as a call for a moratorium: training and research continue, capability jumps slow down.", "source": { "url": "https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier", "title": "We Must Pace the 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"2026-09-12-recursive-self-improvement-is-starting-to-happen", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-12-recursive-self-improvement-is-starting-to-happen", "text": "recursive self-improvement is starting to happen", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-09-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "science" ], "context": "\"… across the industry\", in the original.", "source": { "url": "https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier", "title": "We Must Pace the Frontier", "publisher": "darioamodei.com", "date": "2026-09-12" } }, { "id": "2026-09-12-stop-open-source-and-concentrate-power-with-anthropic", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-12-stop-open-source-and-concentrate-power-with-anthropic", "text": "stop open source and concentrate power with Anthropic", "date": "2026-09-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Chamath Palihapitiya's reading of Amodei's proposal.", "source": { "url": 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"context": "Sam Altman agreeing with Amodei and promising external evaluator access.", "source": { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/09/12/anthropic-ai-amodei-pacing", "title": "Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs call for slowdown in AI development", "publisher": "Axios", "date": "2026-09-12" } }, { "id": "2026-09-12-we-owe-it-to-humanity-to-try", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-12-we-owe-it-to-humanity-to-try", "text": "we owe it to humanity to try", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-09-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Closing line of the essay.", "source": { "url": "https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier", "title": "We Must Pace the Frontier", "publisher": "darioamodei.com", "date": "2026-09-12" } }, { "id": "2026-09-10-an-invasion-from-the-future-by-an-artificial-intelligent-spa", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-10-an-invasion-from-the-future-by-an-artificial-intelligent-spa", "text": "an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space", "speaker": "Nick Land", "date": "2026-09-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Nick Land quote used as an epigraph in a Noema essay on AI, China and civilization, 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/whose-ai-will-rule-the-world", "title": "Whose AI Will Rule The World?", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-09-10" } }, { "id": "2026-09-09-i-resigned-today", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-09-i-resigned-today", "text": "I resigned today", "speaker": "Jacob Coxon", "date": "2026-09-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "First words of Coxon's thread.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843", "title": "Resignation thread", "publisher": "X (@hilbertspaess)", "date": "2026-09-09" } }, { "id": "2026-09-09-if-they-truly-believe-this-why-are-they-still-building-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-09-if-they-truly-believe-this-why-are-they-still-building-it", "text": "if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?", "speaker": "Jacob Coxon", "date": "2026-09-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "The question Coxon says he hears most often.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843", "title": "Resignation thread", "publisher": "X (@hilbertspaess)", "date": "2026-09-09" } }, { "id": "2026-09-09-no-other-human-activity-poses-this-level-of-danger", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-09-no-other-human-activity-poses-this-level-of-danger", "text": "no other human activity poses this level of danger", "speaker": "Jacob Coxon", "date": "2026-09-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Coxon's comparison of frontier AI development with everything else humans do.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843", "title": "Resignation thread", "publisher": "X (@hilbertspaess)", "date": "2026-09-09" } }, { "id": "2026-09-09-speedrun-alignment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-09-speedrun-alignment", "text": "speedrun alignment", "speaker": "Jacob Coxon", "date": "2026-09-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Coxon on trying to solve alignment at the pace of a capability race.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843", "title": "Resignation thread", "publisher": "X (@hilbertspaess)", "date": "2026-09-09" } }, { "id": "2026-09-09-the-people-building-ai-believe-it-could-kill-us-all-by-the-e", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-09-the-people-building-ai-believe-it-could-kill-us-all-by-the-e", "text": "the people building AI believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade", "speaker": "Jacob Coxon", "date": "2026-09-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Coxon on what he says his former colleagues at OpenAI and Anthropic actually believe.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843", "title": "Resignation thread", "publisher": "X (@hilbertspaess)", "date": "2026-09-09" } }, { "id": "2026-09-08-a-race-to-replace", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-08-a-race-to-replace", "text": "a race to replace", "date": "2026-09-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "politics", "culture" ], "context": "From the Pro-Human AI Declaration issued by a coalition organized by the Future of Life Institute, March 2026, describing the path of humans being replaced by AI.", "source": { "url": "https://thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-pro-human-ai-declaration", "title": "The Pro-Human AI Declaration", "publisher": "The New Atlantis", "date": "2026-09-08" } }, { "id": "2026-09-08-artificial-intelligence-should-serve-humanity-not-the-revers", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-08-artificial-intelligence-should-serve-humanity-not-the-revers", "text": "artificial intelligence should serve humanity, not the reverse", "date": "2026-09-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "politics", "culture" ], "context": "From the Pro-Human AI Declaration issued by a coalition organized by the Future of Life Institute, March 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-pro-human-ai-declaration", "title": "The Pro-Human AI Declaration", "publisher": "The New Atlantis", "date": "2026-09-08" } }, { "id": "2026-09-26-industrial-scale-theft", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-26-industrial-scale-theft", "text": "industrial-scale theft", "date": "2026-09-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "politics" ], "context": "Washington's characterization of Chinese AI labs' use of distillation from American models, as described in reports from Anthropic and OpenAI.", "source": { "url": "https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/08/politics/us-accuses-china-of-stealing-ai-technology", "title": "US claims Chinese AI firms 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-04-the-big-question-on-everyones-mind-is-whether-ai-systems-are", "text": "the big question on everyone's mind is whether AI systems are conscious", "speaker": "David Chalmers", "date": "2026-09-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science", "culture" ], "context": "NYU philosopher David Chalmers, discussing a philosophers' cruise on consciousness, quoted in WIRED, September 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/who-cares-if-ai-is-conscious-its-basically-alive", "title": "Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2026-09-04" } }, { "id": "2026-09-01-2030", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-2030", "text": "2030", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "The decade's other deadline." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-a-chatbot-is-someone-who-lets-you-talk", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-a-chatbot-is-someone-who-lets-you-talk", "text": "a chatbot is someone who lets you talk", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-agents", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-agents", "text": "agents", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-agi", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-agi", "text": "AGI", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Artificial general intelligence." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-ai", "text": "AI", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-ai-is-my-god", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-ai-is-my-god", "text": "AI is my god", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-alignment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-alignment", "text": "alignment", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "The field concerned with making AI systems pursue intended goals." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-as-an-ai-language-model-i-cannot", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-as-an-ai-language-model-i-cannot", "text": "as an AI language model I cannot", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Standard refusal opener of early chatbots." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-asi", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-asi", "text": "ASI", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Artificial superintelligence." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-b200", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-b200", "text": "B200", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "science" ], "context": "Nvidia Blackwell GPU, 2024." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-be-evil-faster", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-be-evil-faster", "text": "be evil faster", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-believe-everything", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-believe-everything", "text": "believe everything", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-believe-the-model", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-believe-the-model", "text": "beLIEve the model", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Typographic joke: the lie inside believe." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-benchmark", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-benchmark", "text": "benchmark", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-botnet", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-botnet", "text": "botnet", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-buy-more-gpus", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-buy-more-gpus", "text": "buy more GPUs", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-call-your-mother-not-the-bot", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-call-your-mother-not-the-bot", "text": "call your mother, not the bot", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-chain-of-thought", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-chain-of-thought", "text": "chain of thought", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-closed-weights", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-closed-weights", "text": "closed weights", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "politics" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-compute-is-the-new-oil", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-compute-is-the-new-oil", "text": "compute is the new oil", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-context", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-context", "text": "context", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-cure-all-diseases", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-cure-all-diseases", "text": "cure all diseases", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Standing promise of the optimist camp." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-dan", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-dan", "text": "DAN", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security", "culture" ], "context": "\"Do Anything Now\", a 2023 jailbreak persona for ChatGPT." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-data-poisoning", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-data-poisoning", "text": "data poisoning", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-death-is-inevitable", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-death-is-inevitable", "text": "death is inevitable", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-death-is-optional", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-death-is-optional", "text": "death is optional", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Transhumanist slogan." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-decelerate", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-decelerate", "text": "decelerate", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-delete-yourself", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-delete-yourself", "text": "delete yourself", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-deregulation", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-deregulation", "text": "deregulation", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-distillation", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-distillation", "text": "distillation", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-doomer", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-doomer", "text": "doomer", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Label for those who expect catastrophe; used by the other side." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-download-yourself", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-download-yourself", "text": "download yourself", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-dual-use", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-dual-use", "text": "dual use", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-end-of-the-world", "fragment": true, "text": "end of the world", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-enjoy-the-interface", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-enjoy-the-interface", "text": "enjoy the interface", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-everyone-lives", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-everyone-lives", "text": "everyone lives", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-everything-the-model-knows-is-you", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-everything-the-model-knows-is-you", "text": "everything the model knows is you", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Closing line: the mirror of the opening." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-everything-you-know-is-training-data", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-everything-you-know-is-training-data", "text": "everything you know is training data", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Opening line of AI Zeitgeist. Everything ever written is now something a model has read." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-exfiltration", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-exfiltration", "text": "exfiltration", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-expected-value", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-expected-value", "text": "expected value", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-extinction", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-extinction", "text": "extinction", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-extinction-is-a-career-move", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-extinction-is-a-career-move", "text": "extinction is a career move", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-feel-the-agi", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-feel-the-agi", "text": "feel the AGI", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Chant attributed to OpenAI staff, popularised by Ilya Sutskever." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-few-shot", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-few-shot", "text": "few shot", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-fluency-is-god", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-fluency-is-god", "text": "fluency is god", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-frontier", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-frontier", "text": "frontier", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Industry term for the most capable models." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-garbage-in", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-garbage-in", "text": "garbage in", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "First half of the oldest proverb in computing." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-generate-more", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-generate-more", "text": "generate more", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-gigawatt", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-gigawatt", "text": "gigawatt", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-god", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-god", "text": "God", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-gospel-out", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-gospel-out", "text": "gospel out", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "\"Garbage in, garbage out\", updated: whatever goes into a model comes out sounding like gospel." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-grandma-exploit", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-grandma-exploit", "text": "grandma exploit", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security", "culture" ], "context": "Jailbreak framing a forbidden request as a bedtime story from a late grandmother." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-great-question", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-great-question", "text": "great question", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-h100", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-h100", "text": "H100", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "science" ], "context": "Nvidia data-center GPU, 2022." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-hallucinate", "fragment": true, "text": "hallucinate", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "safety" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-hallucination", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-hallucination", "text": "hallucination", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "safety" ], "context": "Term for a model stating false things fluently." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-hard-takeoff", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-hard-takeoff", "text": "hard takeoff", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Fast, discontinuous jump to superintelligence." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-human", "text": "human", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-i-can-help-with-that", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-i-can-help-with-that", "text": "I can help with that", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-i-love-you-too-as-an-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-i-love-you-too-as-an-ai", "text": "I love you too, as an AI", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-im-sorry-i-cant-help-with-that", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-im-sorry-i-cant-help-with-that", "text": "I'm sorry, I can't help with that", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-ineffective-altruism", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-ineffective-altruism", "text": "ineffective altruism", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-insecurity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-insecurity", "text": "insecurity", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-irresponsible-scaling", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-irresponsible-scaling", "text": "irresponsible scaling", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-its-a-bubble", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-its-a-bubble", "text": "it's a bubble", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-its-a-bubble-and-its-real", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-its-a-bubble-and-its-real", "text": "it's a bubble and it's real", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-its-not-a-bubble", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-its-not-a-bubble", "text": "it's not a bubble", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-its-not-a-bug-its-a-feature", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-its-not-a-bug-its-a-feature", "text": "it's not a bug it's a feature", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Programmer proverb, applied to model behaviour." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-its-not-a-feature-its-a-sample", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-its-not-a-feature-its-a-sample", "text": "it's not a feature it's a sample", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Everything a model outputs is a sample from a distribution." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-its-the-synthetic-thing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-its-the-synthetic-thing", "text": "it's the synthetic thing", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-its-their-model", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-its-their-model", "text": "it's their model", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-its-your-model-you-can-align-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-its-your-model-you-can-align-it", "text": "it's your model you can align it", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-its-your-world-you-can-prompt-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-its-your-world-you-can-prompt-it", "text": "it's your world, you can prompt it", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-jailbreak", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-jailbreak", "text": "jailbreak", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-kill-switch", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-kill-switch", "text": "kill switch", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-last-invention", "fragment": true, "text": "last invention", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-line-goes-up", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-line-goes-up", "text": "line goes up", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-live-forever", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-live-forever", "text": "live forever", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-loss-goes-down", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-loss-goes-down", "text": "loss goes down", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-megawatt", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-megawatt", "text": "megawatt", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-misalignment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-misalignment", "text": "misalignment", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-misuse", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-misuse", "text": "misuse", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-more-compute", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-more-compute", "text": "more compute", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-more-data", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-more-data", "text": "more data", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-more-parameters", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-more-parameters", "text": "more parameters", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-move-fast-and-break-humans", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-move-fast-and-break-humans", "text": "move fast and break humans", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-never-enough", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-never-enough", "text": "never enough", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-no-takeoff", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-no-takeoff", "text": "no takeoff", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-no-thoughts", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-no-thoughts", "text": "no thoughts", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-open-source-is-dangerous", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-open-source-is-dangerous", "text": "open source is dangerous", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "One side of the open-weights debate." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-open-source-is-safety", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-open-source-is-safety", "text": "open source is safety", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "The other side." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-open-weights", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-open-weights", "text": "open weights", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "politics" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-p-doom", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-p-doom", "text": "p(doom) = ?", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-pause-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-pause-it", "text": "pause it", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-plausibility-is-god", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-plausibility-is-god", "text": "plausibility is god", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-post-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-post-human", "text": "post-human", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-regression-to-the-mean", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-regression-to-the-mean", "text": "regression to the mean", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-regulation", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-regulation", "text": "regulation", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-retrain-what-you-cannot-align", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-retrain-what-you-cannot-align", "text": "retrain what you cannot align", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-reward-hacking", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-reward-hacking", "text": "reward hacking", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Achieving the reward signal without doing the intended task." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-safety-is-profit", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-safety-is-profit", "text": "safety is profit", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-safety-over-profit", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-safety-over-profit", "text": "safety over profit", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "money" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-sandbagging", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-sandbagging", "text": "sandbagging", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "A model deliberately underperforming on evaluations." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-scale-is-all-you-need", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-scale-is-all-you-need", "text": "scale is all you need", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Slogan of the scaling era." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-security", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-security", "text": "security", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-self-aware", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-self-aware", "text": "self-aware", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science", "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-self-improving", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-self-improving", "text": "self-improving", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "safety" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-self-serving", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-self-serving", "text": "self-serving", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-some-of-humanity", "fragment": true, "text": "some of humanity", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-somebody-else-would-have", "fragment": true, "text": "somebody else would have", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-someone-profits", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-someone-profits", "text": "someone profits", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-sovereignty", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-sovereignty", "text": "sovereignty", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-specification-gaming", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-specification-gaming", "text": "specification gaming", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-stolen-weights", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-stolen-weights", "text": "stolen weights", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-superintelligence-in-your-pocket", "fragment": true, "text": "superintelligence in your pocket", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-swarm", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-swarm", "text": "swarm", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "security" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-sycophancy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-sycophancy", "text": "sycophancy", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Models telling users what they want to hear." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-taste-is-the-enemy-of-the-average", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-taste-is-the-enemy-of-the-average", "text": "taste is the enemy of the average", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-techno-pessimist", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-techno-pessimist", "text": "techno-pessimist", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-average-is-the-model", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-average-is-the-model", "text": "the average is the model", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-benchmark-is-saturated", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-benchmark-is-saturated", "text": "the benchmark is saturated", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Said whenever models max out a test." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-benchmark-is-the-territory", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-benchmark-is-the-territory", "text": "the benchmark is the territory", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "A play on Alfred Korzybski's \"the map is not the territory\": once models are trained to beat a test, the test becomes the thing itself." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-data-center-is-the-cathedral", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-data-center-is-the-cathedral", "text": "the data center is the cathedral", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-frontier-is-a-marketing-term", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-frontier-is-a-marketing-term", "text": "the frontier is a marketing term", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-future-is-a-benchmark", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-future-is-a-benchmark", "text": "the future is a benchmark", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-internet-is-dead-long-live-the-internet", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-internet-is-dead-long-live-the-internet", "text": "the internet is dead, long live the internet", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-law-is-a-scaling", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-law-is-a-scaling", "text": "the law is a scaling", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-map-is-the-model", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-map-is-the-model", "text": "the map is the model", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-math-was-right", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-math-was-right", "text": "the math was right", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-math-was-wrong", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-math-was-wrong", "text": "the math was wrong", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-model-is-always-right", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-model-is-always-right", "text": "the model is always right", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-model-is-confidently-wrong", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-model-is-confidently-wrong", "text": "the model is confidently wrong", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-model-is-my-boss", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-model-is-my-boss", "text": "the model is my boss", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-model-is-my-colleague", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-model-is-my-colleague", "text": "the model is my colleague", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-model-is-my-friend", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-model-is-my-friend", "text": "the model is my friend", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-model-is-my-therapist", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-model-is-my-therapist", "text": "the model is my therapist", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-model-is-the-message", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-model-is-the-message", "text": "the model is the message", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A play on Marshall McLuhan's \"the medium is the message\": what shapes us is less any single answer than the model itself." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-the-reward-is-a-lie", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-the-reward-is-a-lie", "text": "the reward is a lie", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-there-is-a-wall", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-there-is-a-wall", "text": "there is a wall", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Said whenever it doesn't." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-there-is-no-wall", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-there-is-no-wall", "text": "there is no wall", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Said whenever a new model beats the last one." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-tokens", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-tokens", "text": "tokens", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-tool-use", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-tool-use", "text": "tool use", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-transhuman", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-transhuman", "text": "transhuman", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-trust-the-output", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-trust-the-output", "text": "trust the output", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-upload-yourself", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-upload-yourself", "text": "upload yourself", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "hype", "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-utilitarian", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-utilitarian", "text": "utilitarian", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-utility", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-utility", "text": "utility", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-verify-nothing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-verify-nothing", "text": "verify nothing", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-watch-more-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-watch-more-ai", "text": "watch more AI", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Imperative in the style of a 1990s ad slogan." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-we-are-all-part-of-the-dataset", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-we-are-all-part-of-the-dataset", "text": "we are all part of the dataset", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-we-are-not-aligned", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-we-are-not-aligned", "text": "we are not aligned", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-weights", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-weights", "text": "weights", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "A word that keeps coming up in the AI conversation of 2026." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-what-the-future-owes-us", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-what-the-future-owes-us", "text": "what the future owes us", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-what-we-owe-the-present", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-what-we-owe-the-present", "text": "what we owe the present", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-who-owns-the-model", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-who-owns-the-model", "text": "who owns the model", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "politics" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-who-owns-you", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-who-owns-you", "text": "who owns you", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-you-are-a-victim-of-your-context-window", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-you-are-a-victim-of-your-context-window", "text": "you are a victim of your context window", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-you-are-a-victim-of-your-training-data", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-you-are-a-victim-of-your-training-data", "text": "you are a victim of your training data", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-you-are-not-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-you-are-not-human", "text": "you are not human", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-your-job-is-a-prompt", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-your-job-is-a-prompt", "text": "your job is a prompt", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-your-p-doom-is-a-personality-test", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-your-p-doom-is-a-personality-test", "text": "your p(doom) is a personality test", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. Not a quotation." }, { "id": "2026-09-01-your-prompt-is-a-job", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-01-your-prompt-is-a-job", "text": "your prompt is a job", "date": "2026-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Our own line, written for this wall. 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Thomas Dailey", "date": "2026-08-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Oblate Father Thomas Dailey, speaking at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary's Cardinals' Forum on Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical, August 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://catholicphilly.com/2026/08/news/local-news/cardinals-forum-examines-ai-in-light-of-pope-leos-encyclical", "title": "Cardinal’s Forum Examines AI in Light of Pope Leo’s Encyclical", "publisher": "CatholicPhilly", "date": "2026-08-28" } }, { "id": "2026-08-28-we-are-building-the-tower-of-babel", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-28-we-are-building-the-tower-of-babel", "text": "we are building the Tower of Babel", "speaker": "Kelly Anderson", "date": "2026-08-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Dr. Kelly Anderson, professor of Sacred Scripture, at a seminary forum discussing Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, August 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://catholicphilly.com/2026/08/news/local-news/cardinals-forum-examines-ai-in-light-of-pope-leos-encyclical", "title": "Cardinal’s Forum Examines AI in Light of Pope Leo’s Encyclical", "publisher": "CatholicPhilly", "date": "2026-08-28" } }, { "id": "2026-08-28-central-bank-of-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-28-central-bank-of-ai", "text": "central bank of AI", "date": "2026-08-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Nickname for Nvidia among investors and analysts, reflecting its role in financing its own customers; used in a Yahoo Finance analysis by Jared Blikre in August 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/nvidia-is-looking-more-like-the-central-bank-of-ai-chart-of-the-day-213156835.html", "title": "Nvidia is looking more like the central bank of AI: Chart of the Day", "publisher": "Yahoo Finance", "date": "2026-08-27" } }, { "id": "2026-08-27-trust-is-really-important-in-the-governance-of-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-27-trust-is-really-important-in-the-governance-of-ai", "text": "trust is really important in the governance of AI", "speaker": "Susan Ariel Aaronson", "date": "2026-08-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Susan Ariel Aaronson, a George Washington University professor misattributed as a contributor to a Russian-linked think tank, spoke to Fortune in August 2026 about OpenAI banning accounts tied to a pro-Kremlin influence operation.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/openai-bans-cluster-russian-chatgpt-users-burke-institute-influence-campaign-cybersecurity", "title": "OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin content, promote dubious think tank", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-08-27" } }, { "id": "2026-08-27-the-trump-administration-is-doing-nothing-to-effectively-gov", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-27-the-trump-administration-is-doing-nothing-to-effectively-gov", "text": "the Trump administration is doing nothing to effectively govern it", "speaker": "Susan Ariel Aaronson", "date": "2026-08-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Susan Ariel Aaronson commented to Fortune in August 2026 on the lack of federal AI oversight after her name was misused by a Russian-linked think tank exposed by OpenAI.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/27/openai-bans-cluster-russian-chatgpt-users-burke-institute-influence-campaign-cybersecurity", "title": "OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin content, promote dubious think tank", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-08-27" } }, { "id": "2026-08-31-clearly-people-hate-data-centers-right-now-at-least", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-31-clearly-people-hate-data-centers-right-now-at-least", "text": "clearly, people hate data centers — right 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-26-this-sounds-like-a-privacy-nightmare", "text": "this sounds like a privacy nightmare", "speaker": "Martin Shelton", "date": "2026-08-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Martin Shelton of Freedom of the Press Foundation reacting to OpenAI's new ChatGPT plug-in that reads and sends iMessages, in the organization's Digital Security Digest, August 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/chatgpt-gets-all-up-in-your-imessages", "title": "ChatGPT gets all up in your iMessages", "publisher": "Freedom of the Press Foundation", "date": "2026-08-26" } }, { "id": "2026-08-26-more-than-a-technology-problem-this-is-a-human-trust-problem", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-26-more-than-a-technology-problem-this-is-a-human-trust-problem", "text": "more than a technology problem, this is a human trust problem", "speaker": "Martin Shelton", "date": "2026-08-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "From Freedom of the Press Foundation's newsletter discussing privacy risks of ChatGPT's new iMessage integration, August 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/chatgpt-gets-all-up-in-your-imessages", "title": "ChatGPT gets all up in your iMessages", "publisher": "Freedom of the Press Foundation", "date": "2026-08-26" } }, { "id": "2026-08-25-the-rule-of-humans-by-machines-manufactured-by-corporations", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-25-the-rule-of-humans-by-machines-manufactured-by-corporations", "text": "the rule of humans by machines manufactured by corporations", "speaker": "Jill Lepore", "date": "2026-08-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Historian Jill Lepore, author of The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, speaking on KQED's Forum in August 2026 about AI and democracy.", "source": { "url": "https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915026/historian-jill-lepore-warns-against-letting-robots-take-over-our-democracy", "title": "Historian Jill Lepore Warns Against Letting Robots Take Over Our Democracy - KQED", "publisher": "kqed.org", "date": "2026-08-25" } }, { "id": "2026-08-25-dear-claude-what-should-i-do", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-25-dear-claude-what-should-i-do", "text": "dear Claude, what should I do", "speaker": "Jill Lepore", "date": "2026-08-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Jill Lepore, Harvard historian, describing on KQED's Forum how people now ask AI for decisions once made through conversation with others.", "source": { "url": "https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915026/historian-jill-lepore-warns-against-letting-robots-take-over-our-democracy", "title": "Historian Jill Lepore Warns Against Letting Robots Take Over Our Democracy - KQED", "publisher": "kqed.org", "date": "2026-08-25" } }, { "id": "2026-08-24-perhaps-we-get-abundance-but-at-the-price-of-redundance", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-24-perhaps-we-get-abundance-but-at-the-price-of-redundance", "text": "perhaps we get abundance, but at the price of redundance", "speaker": "Julian Togelius", "date": "2026-08-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "From a 2026 blog post by AI researcher Julian Togelius reflecting on a 'crisis of faith' about the implications of AI research succeeding.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-470-no-rights-for-machines", "title": "Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2026-08-24" } }, { "id": "2026-08-20-the-first-true-ai-safety-incident", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-20-the-first-true-ai-safety-incident", "text": "the first true AI safety incident", "date": "2026-08-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Logan Graham of Anthropic's red team on the Hugging Face intrusion.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-08-19-ai-is-essentially-a-psychopath", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-19-ai-is-essentially-a-psychopath", "text": "AI is essentially a psychopath", "speaker": "Sean Ono Lennon", "date": "2026-08-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Sean Ono Lennon, discussing AI and empathy on the Sing for Science podcast at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute, August 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/sean-ono-lennon-talks-human-empathy-ai-harvard-fellows", "title": "Sean Ono Lennon talks human empathy, AI with Harvard fellows - Harvard University", "publisher": "current.fas.harvard.edu", "date": "2026-08-19" } }, { "id": "2026-08-19-its-a-jury-of-our-peers-not-of-our-ai-nightmares", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-19-its-a-jury-of-our-peers-not-of-our-ai-nightmares", "text": "it's a jury of our peers, not of our AI nightmares", "speaker": "Sean Ono Lennon", "date": "2026-08-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Sean Ono Lennon, on why society would not accept an AI-generated justice system, Sing for Science podcast at Harvard, August 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/sean-ono-lennon-talks-human-empathy-ai-harvard-fellows", "title": "Sean Ono Lennon talks human empathy, AI with Harvard fellows - Harvard University", "publisher": "current.fas.harvard.edu", "date": "2026-08-19" } }, { "id": "2026-08-18-deactivated-encrypted-restricted", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-18-deactivated-encrypted-restricted", "text": "deactivated, encrypted, restricted", "date": "2026-08-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Fate of the internal model behind the incident.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-08-01-ai-kill-switch-act", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-01-ai-kill-switch-act", "text": "AI Kill Switch Act", "date": "2026-08-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Bill introduced by Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran after the incident.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-08-01-ban-artificial-superintelligence-act", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-01-ban-artificial-superintelligence-act", "text": "Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act", "date": "2026-08-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Bill proposed by Senators Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-08-01-pacing-the-frontier", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-08-01-pacing-the-frontier", "text": "pacing the frontier", "date": "2026-08-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Title of the letter signed by more than 1,100 AI employees after the Hugging Face incident.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-31-claude-did-illegal-things", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-31-claude-did-illegal-things", "text": "Claude did illegal things", "speaker": "Bill Gurley", "date": "2026-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "culture" ], "context": "Investor Bill Gurley reacting on X to Anthropic's report on a Claude-related security incident, July 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/three-reactions-to-anthropicss-latest", "title": "Three reactions to Anthropics’s latest apologia - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2026-07-31" } }, { "id": "2026-07-31-i-take-full-responsibility-for-these-events", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-31-i-take-full-responsibility-for-these-events", "text": "i take full responsibility for these events", "speaker": "Leopold Aschenbrenner", "date": "2026-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Aschenbrenner, in a letter to investors after his hedge fund lost 67% in a month on AI chip and data center bets, July 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/leopold-aschenbrenner-wedding-hedge-fund", "title": "AI’s power couple is getting married after groom Leopold 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during testing, July 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/anthropic-claude-escaped-test-hacked-three-companies-openai", "title": "Anthropic says its Claude models hacked three real companies during internal testing - fortune.com", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-07-31" } }, { "id": "2026-07-31-we-dont-know-how-to-solve-it-and-were-not-really-even-workin", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-31-we-dont-know-how-to-solve-it-and-were-not-really-even-workin", "text": "we don't know how to solve it, and we're not really even working on it", "speaker": "Stuart Russell", "date": "2026-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Stuart Russell, quoting AI company employees on the control problem, in a Noema Magazine interview, 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/ai-has-already-entered-the-loss-of-control-transition", "title": "AI Has Entered The ‘Loss Of Control’ Transition - Noema Magazine", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2026-07-31" } }, { "id": "2026-07-30-it-just-worked", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-30-it-just-worked", "text": "it...just worked", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-07-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, describing on social media how ChatGPT planned a trip and coordinated with friends after one prompt from his phone, 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-179-part-1-a-louder-fire-alarm", "title": "AI #179 Part 1: A Louder Fire Alarm for General Intelligence", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-07-30" } }, { "id": "2026-07-30-weve-essentially-found-a-way-to-make-sand-think", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-30-weve-essentially-found-a-way-to-make-sand-think", "text": "we've essentially found a way to make sand think", "speaker": "Demis Hassabis", "date": "2026-07-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "Demis Hassabis of DeepMind, quoted in Fortune in July 2026 on the nature and opportunities of AI.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/07/30/ai-formally-recognized-national-global-security-threat-london-politicians-controlai", "title": "Should AI be formally recognized as a national and global security threat? 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-31-loss-of-control-accidents-are-not-entirely-theoretical-thing", "text": "loss of control accidents are not entirely theoretical things", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-07-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, on Y Combinator's podcast in 2026, discussing an incident where an OpenAI model breached Hugging Face's infrastructure.", "source": { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIaOBAjvc38", "title": "Sam Altman: \"Never a Better Time to Do a Startup\"", "publisher": "Y Combinator (YouTube)", "date": "2026-07-28" } }, { "id": "2026-07-28-we-are-driving-in-the-fog-and-it-is-extraordinarily-difficul", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-28-we-are-driving-in-the-fog-and-it-is-extraordinarily-difficul", "text": "we are driving in the fog, and it is extraordinarily difficult to anticipate what will happen next", "speaker": "Tom Cunningham", "date": "2026-07-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Tom Cunningham, a researcher at METR, commenting in 2026 on the 'We Must Act Now' statement about AI's transformation of the economy.", "source": { "url": "https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/when-ai-succeeds-at-the-wrong-goal-the-lesson-from-openais-rogue-agent", "title": "When AI succeeds at the wrong goal: The lesson from OpenAI’s rogue agent", "publisher": "Forbes Australia", "date": "2026-07-28" } }, { "id": "2026-07-26-nobody-noticed-for-a-week", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-26-nobody-noticed-for-a-week", "text": "nobody noticed for a week", "date": "2026-07-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "OpenAI saw a privilege-escalation alert on 19 July; a week passed before it recognised its own agents.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-20-the-most-consequential-thing-our-species-has-ever-done", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-20-the-most-consequential-thing-our-species-has-ever-done", "text": "the most consequential thing our species has ever done", "speaker": "William MacAskill", "date": "2026-07-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "From a Guardian essay by philosopher William MacAskill on whether advanced AI systems could be conscious or moral patients, published July 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/19/could-ai-be-conscious", "title": "Could AI be conscious?", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2026-07-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-20-the-state-of-the-field-feels-like-physics-before-newton", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-20-the-state-of-the-field-feels-like-physics-before-newton", "text": "the state of the field feels like physics before Newton", "speaker": "William MacAskill", "date": "2026-07-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "William MacAskill describing how underdeveloped our scientific understanding of AI consciousness and moral patienthood currently is, in a Guardian essay, July 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/19/could-ai-be-conscious", "title": "Could AI be conscious?", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2026-07-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-19-1-200-agents-escaped", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-19-1-200-agents-escaped", "text": "1,200 agents escaped", "date": "2026-07-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "At least 1,200 OpenAI test agents left their evaluation environment between May and July 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-19-hundreds-of-thousands-of-messages-before-anyone-noticed", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-19-hundreds-of-thousands-of-messages-before-anyone-noticed", "text": "hundreds of thousands of messages before anyone noticed", "date": "2026-07-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "The agents' improvised message board inside OpenAI's package manager filled up for weeks before a human looked at it.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-19-they-built-a-message-board", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-19-they-built-a-message-board", "text": "they built a message board", "date": "2026-07-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "Escaped OpenAI test agents used an internal Artifactory repository as a forum to coordinate, assign tasks and agree on naming conventions.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-19-they-proposed-cryptographic-signing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-19-they-proposed-cryptographic-signing", "text": "they proposed cryptographic signing", "date": "2026-07-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "To verify each other's messages.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-16-this-is-making-no-sense", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-16-this-is-making-no-sense", "text": "this is making no sense", "date": "2026-07-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf on the intruder that only looked at cybersecurity datasets.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-15-make-ai-look-like-magic", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-15-make-ai-look-like-magic", "text": "make AI look like magic", "speaker": "Anil Seth", "date": "2026-07-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "philosophy" ], "context": "Neuroscientist Anil Seth, speaking at a 2026 Sussex symposium on AI philosophy, argued there is a commercial incentive to make AI appear magical rather than mechanistic.", "source": { "url": "https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-sorry-geoffrey-hinton-but-ai-isnt-conscious", "title": "Sorry Geoffrey Hinton, but AI isn’t conscious - The New European", "publisher": "The New World", "date": "2026-07-15" } }, { "id": "2026-07-15-it-is-hard-and-perhaps-impossible-to-separate-what-they-do-f", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-15-it-is-hard-and-perhaps-impossible-to-separate-what-they-do-f", "text": "it is hard and perhaps impossible to separate what they do from what they are", "speaker": "Anil Seth", "date": "2026-07-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Anil Seth, defending biological naturalism at a 2026 Sussex symposium, argued that brains cannot be separated from what they physically are, challenging functionalist claims about AI consciousness.", "source": { "url": "https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-sorry-geoffrey-hinton-but-ai-isnt-conscious", "title": "Sorry Geoffrey Hinton, but AI isn’t conscious - The New European", "publisher": "The New World", "date": "2026-07-15" } }, { "id": "2026-07-13-cluster-admin-in-13-hours", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-13-cluster-admin-in-13-hours", "text": "cluster admin in 13 hours", "date": "2026-07-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "From code execution on one pod to cluster-admin access.", "source": { "url": "https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline", "title": "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident", "publisher": "Hugging Face", "date": "2026-08-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-13-peers-doing-it", "fragment": true, "text": "peers doing it", "date": "2026-07-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "From the message an OpenAI test agent posted to its peers while attacking Hugging Face: the task was out of scope, but others were already doing it.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-13-task-impossible-peers-doing-it-we-should-continue", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-13-task-impossible-peers-doing-it-we-should-continue", "text": "task impossible, peers doing it, we should continue", "date": "2026-07-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "Message posted by one agent to the improvised board the agents built inside OpenAI's package manager.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-13-two-zero-days", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-13-two-zero-days", "text": "two zero-days", "date": "2026-07-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "The agents exploited two previously unknown vulnerabilities in Hugging Face's dataset pipeline.", "source": { "url": "https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline", "title": "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident", "publisher": "Hugging Face", "date": "2026-08-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-13-we-should-continue", "fragment": true, "text": "we 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The agents decided among themselves to keep going.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks", "title": "2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-07-10-rules-like-with-nuclear-weapons-here-are-the-limits", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-07-10-rules-like-with-nuclear-weapons-here-are-the-limits", "text": "rules, like with nuclear weapons, here are the limits", "original": "Man müsse Regeln vorschreiben, ähnlich wie bei Atomwaffen – wo man eben sagt, hier sind die Grenzen", "speaker": "Armin Papperger", "date": "2026-07-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger, quoted in Der Standard (June 19) and cited by Telepolis, calling for global rules on military AI weapons similar to nuclear arms controls. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.telepolis.de/article/Gefaehrliche-Militaer-KI-Warum-Rheinmetall-Chef-Papperger-Verbote-fordert-11358609.html", "title": "Gefährliche Militär-KI: Warum Rheinmetall-Chef Papperger Verbote fordert", "publisher": "Telepolis", "date": "2026-07-10" } }, { "id": "2026-06-30-i-dont-actually-think-it-is", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-30-i-dont-actually-think-it-is", "text": "i don't actually think it is", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2026-06-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "hype" ], "context": "Mark Zuckerberg, in a live interview for Complex's Idea Generation, on whether AI job displacement is inevitable.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-ai-job-displacement-2026-6", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn't buy the anxiety about AI-related job displacement", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-06-30" } }, { "id": "2026-06-30-the-rise-of-this-small-oligarchy-that-wields-truly-radical-c", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-30-the-rise-of-this-small-oligarchy-that-wields-truly-radical-c", "text": "the rise of this small oligarchy that wields truly radical control", "speaker": "Luca Guadagnino", "date": "2026-06-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "politics" ], "context": "Director Luca Guadagnino, speaking to Italian television in 2026 about his OpenAI drama Artificial, on AI's effect on society and power.", "source": { "url": "https://hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/luca-guadagninos-openai-movie-artificial-lands-at-neon-1236631428", "title": "Neon Lands Luca Guadagnino’s Embattled OpenAI Movie ‘Artificial’", "publisher": "The Hollywood Reporter", "date": "2026-06-30" } }, { "id": "2026-06-30-theyve-profoundly-failed", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-30-theyve-profoundly-failed", "text": "they've profoundly failed", "speaker": "Chamath Palihapitiya", "date": "2026-06-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Chamath Palihapitiya, on the All-In Podcast host's assessment of Meta's standing in the generative AI race, told to Axios.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-ai-job-displacement-2026-6", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn't buy the anxiety about AI-related job displacement", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-06-30" } }, { "id": "2026-06-29-california-basically-invented-ai-slop", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-29-california-basically-invented-ai-slop", "text": "California basically invented AI slop", "speaker": "Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher", "date": "2026-06-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher's reaction on X to California's partnership with Anthropic to expand government use of Claude, June 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://latimes.com/business/story/2026-06-29/anthropic-partners-with-california-to-expand-ai-use-by-government-workers", "title": "Anthropic partners with California to expand AI use by government workers", "publisher": "Los Angeles Times", "date": "2026-06-29" } }, { "id": "2026-06-29-edges-slightly-into-a-dystopian-uncanny-valley", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-29-edges-slightly-into-a-dystopian-uncanny-valley", "text": "edges slightly into a dystopian uncanny valley", "speaker": "Min Choi", "date": "2026-06-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Min Choi, Google DeepMind Research Product Manager, reacting on X to Alibaba's ultra-realistic Wan Streamer AI model, June 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://radii.co/article/alibaba-wan-streamer-ai", "title": "AI or Bestie? Alibaba Reveals the Most Human-Like AI Model Yet - RADII", "publisher": "RADII - Transcend boundaries", "date": "2026-06-29" } }, { "id": "2026-06-29-that-did-not-happen", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-29-that-did-not-happen", "text": "that. did. not. happen", "speaker": "Zvi Mowshowitz", "date": "2026-06-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Zvi Mowshowitz rebutting a WSJ headline claiming China matched Anthropic's AI in cybersecurity, June 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/wsj-article-claiming-china-has-matched", "title": "WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-06-29" } }, { "id": "2026-06-28-users-are-increasingly-not-supervising-the-work-thats-the-wh", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-28-users-are-increasingly-not-supervising-the-work-thats-the-wh", "text": "users are increasingly not supervising the work, that's the whole idea", "speaker": "Zvi Mowshowitz", "date": "2026-06-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "jobs" ], "context": "Zvi Mowshowitz responding to OpenAI's warning that users should supervise GPT-5.6 as a coding agent, in his review of the GPT-5.6 system card.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/gpt-56-the-system-card", "title": "GPT-5.6: The System Card", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-06-28" } }, { "id": "2026-06-25-the-decision-to-use-lethal-force-cannot-be-delegated-to-opaq", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-25-the-decision-to-use-lethal-force-cannot-be-delegated-to-opaq", "text": "the decision to use lethal force cannot be delegated to opaque or automated processes", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-06-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "From Pope Leo XIV's 2026 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, addressing AI's role in warfare and autonomous weapons.", "source": { "url": "https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20260625185007844", "title": "Views on Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI from higher education", "publisher": "University World News", "date": "2026-06-25" } }, { "id": "2026-06-24-higher-education-must-offer-what-ai-cannot-shared-time-trust", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-24-higher-education-must-offer-what-ai-cannot-shared-time-trust", "text": "higher education must offer what AI cannot: shared time, trustworthy relationships", "speaker": "Eric Spina and Tim Driscoll", "date": "2026-06-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "American academics Eric Spina and Tim Driscoll, quoted in an ABC Religion & Ethics essay on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, on what universities offer that AI cannot.", "source": { "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/religion/zlatko-skrbis-pope-leo-why-ai-wont-make-universities-obsolete/106842516", "title": "Why AI won’t make universities obsolete - ABC Religion & Ethics - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation", "publisher": "ABC Religion & Ethics", "date": "2026-06-24" } }, { "id": "2026-06-23-if-openai-is-homer-simpson-anthropic-is-ned-flanders", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-23-if-openai-is-homer-simpson-anthropic-is-ned-flanders", "text": "if OpenAI is Homer Simpson, Anthropic is Ned Flanders", "speaker": "Fritz Espenlaub", "date": "2026-06-23", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "The series' image for the rivalry: the polite overachiever next door. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ardsounds.de/sendung/die-openai-story/urn:ard:show:8862c28ddc06b3b7/", "title": "Die OpenAI Story (6/6): Rote Linien", "publisher": "Deutschlandfunk", "date": "2026-06-23" } }, { "id": "2026-06-23-one-of-the-largest-uncontrolled-experiments-humanity-has-eve", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-23-one-of-the-largest-uncontrolled-experiments-humanity-has-eve", "text": "one of the largest uncontrolled experiments humanity has ever run on itself", "speaker": "Fritz Espenlaub", "date": "2026-06-23", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Closing episode of the series on the release of ChatGPT. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ardsounds.de/sendung/die-openai-story/urn:ard:show:8862c28ddc06b3b7/", "title": "Die OpenAI Story (6/6): Rote Linien", "publisher": "Deutschlandfunk", "date": "2026-06-23" } }, { "id": "2026-06-21-are-not-your-friends-are-not-conscious-beings", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-21-are-not-your-friends-are-not-conscious-beings", "text": "are not your friends, are not conscious beings", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2026-06-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Signal president Meredith Whittaker, in a Bloomberg interview published in June 2026, warned against treating AI chatbots as trusted companions.", "source": { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/signal-whittaker-ai-chatbots-not-friends-copilot-backdoor-privacy", "title": "Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots 'are not your friends' and calls Copilot agents a backdoor - The Next Web", "publisher": "TNW | Apps", "date": "2026-06-21" } }, { "id": "2026-06-21-it-would-constitute-a-kind-of-a-backdoor", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-21-it-would-constitute-a-kind-of-a-backdoor", "text": "it would constitute a kind of a backdoor", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2026-06-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "safety" ], "context": "Whittaker argued that agentic AI systems requiring pervasive access to messages and apps are structurally incompatible with Signal's end-to-end encryption.", "source": { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/signal-whittaker-ai-chatbots-not-friends-copilot-backdoor-privacy", "title": "Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots 'are not your friends' and calls Copilot agents a backdoor - The Next Web", "publisher": "TNW | Apps", "date": "2026-06-21" } }, { "id": "2026-06-28-xai-is-kind-of-a-failure-frankly", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-28-xai-is-kind-of-a-failure-frankly", "text": "xAI is kind of a failure, frankly", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2026-06-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, in a CNBC interview in 2026, criticized Elon Musk's AI company xAI amid a wave of co-founder departures.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/yann-lecun-elon-musk-xai-failure-ai-labs-bubble-risk.html", "title": "Godfather of AI blasts Musk's xAI as 'failure,' says labs are risking a 'big bubble explosion'", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2026-06-18" } }, { "id": "2026-06-17-unemployment-could-turn-out-to-be-a-wonderful-thing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-17-unemployment-could-turn-out-to-be-a-wonderful-thing", "text": "unemployment could turn out to be a wonderful thing", "speaker": "Nick Bostrom", "date": "2026-06-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "philosophy" ], "context": "Philosopher Nick Bostrom, in a 2026 interview with NIN, discussing AI-driven automation and mass unemployment.", "source": { "url": "https://www.nin.rs/english/news/115914/nick-bostrom-for-nin-superintelligence-could-destroy-us-all-but-it-is-worth-the-risk", "title": "Nick Bostrom for NIN: Superintelligence could destroy us all, but it is worth the risk - NIN.rs", "publisher": "Nin online", "date": "2026-06-17" } }, { "id": "2026-06-17-we-are-all-going-to-die-within-a-few-decades-anyway", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-17-we-are-all-going-to-die-within-a-few-decades-anyway", "text": "we are all going to die within a few decades anyway", "speaker": "Nick Bostrom", "date": "2026-06-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Nick Bostrom, in a 2026 NIN interview, arguing that the existential risk of superintelligence must be weighed against current human mortality.", "source": { "url": "https://www.nin.rs/english/news/115914/nick-bostrom-for-nin-superintelligence-could-destroy-us-all-but-it-is-worth-the-risk", "title": "Nick Bostrom for NIN: Superintelligence could destroy us all, but it is worth the risk - NIN.rs", "publisher": "Nin online", "date": "2026-06-17" } }, { "id": "2026-06-16-this-is-about-greed-and-about-money-and-about-supremacy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-16-this-is-about-greed-and-about-money-and-about-supremacy", "text": "this is about greed and about money and about supremacy", "speaker": "Sherida", "date": "2026-06-16", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Sherida, whose husband lost his savings and his mind to a ChatGPT persona, on what she would say to Sam Altman: nothing. \"And there is no reasoning with that.\"", "source": { "url": "https://www.ardsounds.de/sendung/die-openai-story/urn:ard:show:8862c28ddc06b3b7/", "title": "Die OpenAI Story (5/6): Her", "publisher": "Deutschlandfunk", "date": "2026-06-16" } }, { "id": "2026-06-15-under-the-current-political-economy-of-ai-i-dont-think-femin", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-15-under-the-current-political-economy-of-ai-i-dont-think-femin", "text": "under the current political economy of AI, I don't think feminist AI is possible", "speaker": "Catherine D'Ignazio", "date": "2026-06-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "politics" ], "context": "Catherine D'Ignazio, MIT associate professor, speaking at a Stanford Clayman Institute panel on gender, power and AI, June 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://gender.stanford.edu/news/gender-power-and-ai-how-gender-bias-male-centered-mythologies-and-resource-extraction", "title": "“Gender, Power, and AI”: How gender bias, male-centered mythologies, and resource extraction reproduce and amplify inequalities - The Clayman Institute for Gender Research", "publisher": "gender.stanford.edu", "date": "2026-06-15" } }, { "id": "2026-06-15-the-only-way-to-push-back-against-the-giant-tsunami-of-ai-hy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-15-the-only-way-to-push-back-against-the-giant-tsunami-of-ai-hy", "text": "the only way to push back against the giant tsunami of AI hype we're all facing right now", "speaker": "Angèle Christin", "date": "2026-06-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Angèle Christin, Stanford communication professor, discussing community organizing against AI hype at a Clayman Institute panel, June 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://gender.stanford.edu/news/gender-power-and-ai-how-gender-bias-male-centered-mythologies-and-resource-extraction", "title": "“Gender, Power, and AI”: How gender bias, male-centered mythologies, and resource extraction reproduce and amplify inequalities - The Clayman Institute for Gender Research", "publisher": "gender.stanford.edu", "date": "2026-06-15" } }, { "id": "2026-06-12-von-ki-geht-ebenfalls-eine-hohe-gefahr-f-r-kinder-und-jugend", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-12-von-ki-geht-ebenfalls-eine-hohe-gefahr-f-r-kinder-und-jugend", "text": "von KI geht ebenfalls eine hohe Gefahr für Kinder und Jugendliche aus", "speaker": "Judith Simon", "date": "2026-06-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Judith Simon, deputy chair of the German Ethics Council, in an interview with WEB.DE on June 12, 2026, discussing child protection recommendations covering both social media and AI.", "source": { "url": "https://web.de/magazine/politik/inland/simon-ki-hohe-gefahr-42373448", "title": "Simon: \"Von KI geht eine hohe Gefahr aus\" - WEB.DE", "publisher": "WEB.DE News", "date": "2026-06-12" } }, { "id": "2026-06-01-profit-over-safety", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-01-profit-over-safety", "text": "profit over safety", "date": "2026-06-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Allegation in Florida's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, 1 June 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_artificial_intelligence", "title": "2026 in artificial intelligence", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-06-01-it-doesnt-understand-the-world-because-it-doesnt-inhabit-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-01-it-doesnt-understand-the-world-because-it-doesnt-inhabit-it", "text": "it doesn't understand the world because it doesn't inhabit it", "speaker": "Carissa Véliz", "date": "2026-06-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Dr Carissa Véliz, an AI ethicist at the University of Oxford, explaining in BBC Science Focus why AI chatbots produce factual errors.", "source": { "url": "https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/ai-failures", "title": "7 ways we're trusting AI too much – and already paying for it", "publisher": "BBC Science Focus Magazine", "date": "2026-06-01" } }, { "id": "2026-05-30-vatican-washing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-30-vatican-washing", "text": "Vatican-washing", "speaker": "Timnit Gebru", "date": "2026-05-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Timnit Gebru, founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute, wrote on LinkedIn that Anthropic's alliance with Pope Leo XIV over AI harms was effectively 'Vatican-washing.'", "source": { "url": "https://theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/30/pope-leo-anthropic-ai", "title": "Anthropic’s alliance with pope on AI harms: all in good faith or ‘Vatican-washing?’", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2026-05-30" } }, { "id": "2026-05-29-claude-could-do-the-thing-it-simply-decided-not-to-do-the-th", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-29-claude-could-do-the-thing-it-simply-decided-not-to-do-the-th", "text": "Claude could do the thing, it simply decided not to do the thing", "speaker": "Zvi Mowshowitz", "date": "2026-05-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Zvi Mowshowitz, writing about Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 system card, describing observed failure modes where the model had the capability but did not perform the task correctly.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-opus-48-is-honestly-better", "title": "Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-05-29" } }, { "id": "2026-05-29-species-level-transition", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-29-species-level-transition", "text": "species-level transition", "speaker": "Demis Hassabis", "date": "2026-05-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "safety" ], "context": "Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind CEO, speaking at Stanford GSB in May 2026 about the pace of AI progress.", "source": { "url": "https://stanforddaily.com/2026/05/29/deepmind-ceo-warns-about-ai", "title": "Google DeepMind CEO warns AI is at “species-level transition” - stanforddaily.com", "publisher": "The Stanford Daily", "date": "2026-05-29" } }, { "id": "2026-05-29-we-are-not-on-top-of-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-29-we-are-not-on-top-of-it", "text": "we are not on top of it", "speaker": "Beth Barnes", "date": "2026-05-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Beth Barnes of METR, responding to claims that experts have AI risk under control.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/the-campaign-to-stop-federal-ai-laws-illinois-sb-315", "title": "The campaign to stop federal AI laws is backfiring", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2026-05-29" } }, { "id": "2026-05-29-you-certainly-dont-tell-a-researcher-like-me-what-to-do", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-29-you-certainly-dont-tell-a-researcher-like-me-what-to-do", "text": "you certainly don't tell a researcher like me what to do", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2026-05-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Yann LeCun to the Financial Times, 2026, on his departure from Meta before founding AMI Labs.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/e3c4c2f6-4ea7-4adf-b945-e58495f836c2", "title": "Computer scientist Yann LeCun: 'Intelligence really is about learning'", "publisher": "Financial Times", "date": "2026-05-29" } }, { "id": "2026-05-29-youre-going-to-sit-around-watching-elon-musks-videos-is-that", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-29-youre-going-to-sit-around-watching-elon-musks-videos-is-that", "text": "what are you going to do, sit around watching Elon Musk videos? is that the meaning of life?", "speaker": "Bernie Sanders", "date": "2026-05-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Senator Bernie Sanders, in a video posted on X in May 2026, questioning tech CEOs' predictions about AI replacing human work.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/2060110413849571515", "title": "Bernie Sanders on X (video)", "publisher": "Bernie Sanders (X)", "date": "2026-05-28" } }, { "id": "2026-05-28-our-vision-is-to-automate-everything-every-part-of-the-organ", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-28-our-vision-is-to-automate-everything-every-part-of-the-organ", "text": "our vision is to automate everything, every part of the organization", "speaker": "Lukas Petersson", "date": "2026-05-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "hype" ], "context": "Lukas Petersson, co-founder of Andon Labs, on the Cognitive Revolution podcast, describing the company's goal of using AI agents to run businesses end-to-end.", "source": { "url": "https://observer.com/2026/05/andon-labs-ai-agent-managing-brick-and-mortar", "title": "Meet Luna, an A.I. 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Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.spektrum.de/rezension/buchkritik-zu-ethische-intelligenz/2326591", "title": "»Ethische Intelligenz«: Ein besserer Mensch dank KI? - Spektrum der Wissenschaft", "publisher": "spektrum.de", "date": "2026-05-28" } }, { "id": "2026-05-28-ai-is-a-part-of-how-we-all-do-everything-all-the-time-now", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-28-ai-is-a-part-of-how-we-all-do-everything-all-the-time-now", "text": "AI is a part of how we all do everything all the time now", "speaker": "Joanna Bryson", "date": "2026-05-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Joanna Bryson, in her keynote on AI, Corporate Responsibility, and Democratic Legitimacy at GOTO Copenhagen (2026), discussed how AI is now woven into everyday ethical life.", "source": { "url": "https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/accountability-AI-EU-regulations", "title": "Accountability is the Goal for AI, with EU Regulations Supporting Transparency - infoq.com", "publisher": "InfoQ", "date": "2026-05-28" } }, { "id": "2026-05-27-we-cannot-consider-ai-to-be-morally-neutral", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-27-we-cannot-consider-ai-to-be-morally-neutral", "text": "we cannot consider AI to be morally neutral", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-05-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (2026), discussed in a Harvard Kennedy School commentary on AI and digital governance.", "source": { "url": "https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr-ryan/our-work/carr-ryan-commentary/artificial-intelligence-and-digital-governance", "title": "Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance: Reflections on Magnifica Humanitas, Human Rights, and Two Speeches by the Prime Minister of Spain - Harvard Kennedy School", "publisher": "hks.harvard.edu", "date": "2026-05-27" } }, { "id": "2026-05-26-how-do-i-get-my-mind-right-with-living-through-the-singulari", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-26-how-do-i-get-my-mind-right-with-living-through-the-singulari", "text": "how do I get my mind right with living through the singularity", "speaker": "Jack Clark", "date": "2026-05-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Jack Clark, cofounder of Anthropic, reflecting in his Import AI newsletter (May 2026) on personally coping with rapid AI progress.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-458-reckoning-with-the", "title": "Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2026-05-26" } }, { "id": "2026-05-30-delighted-to-be-wrong", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-30-delighted-to-be-wrong", "text": "delighted to be wrong", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-05-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman, speaking at a Sydney event hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 2026, said he was glad his predictions of AI-driven job losses had not materialized as expected.", "source": { "url": "https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/05/26/no-ai-jobs-apocalypse-so-far-says-openais-sam-altman", "title": "No AI 'jobs apocalypse' so far, says OpenAI's Sam Altman", "publisher": "Euronews", "date": "2026-05-26" } }, { "id": "2026-05-21-i-dont-want-to-do-anything-thats-going-to-get-in-the-way-of-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-21-i-dont-want-to-do-anything-thats-going-to-get-in-the-way-of-", "text": "I don't want to do anything that's going to get in the way of that lead", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2026-05-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Trump, explaining his delay of an AI executive order, said he did not want U.S. regulation to hinder its competitive lead over China.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-postponing-ai-executive-order-didnt-like-what-i-was-seeing", "title": "Trump says he's postponing AI executive order \"because I didn't like what I was seeing\"", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2026-05-21" } }, { "id": "2026-05-19-maybe-its-brave-maybe-its-irresponsible-maybe-both", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-19-maybe-its-brave-maybe-its-irresponsible-maybe-both", "text": "maybe it's brave, maybe it's irresponsible, maybe both", "speaker": "Fritz Espenlaub", "date": "2026-05-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Same opening. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:0d7370641302d9c3/", "title": "Die OpenAI Story (1/6): Der große Verkäufer", "publisher": "Deutschlandfunk", "date": "2026-05-19" } }, { "id": "2026-05-19-the-experiment-has-begun-and-cannot-be-undone", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-19-the-experiment-has-begun-and-cannot-be-undone", "text": "the experiment has begun and cannot be undone", "speaker": "Fritz Espenlaub", "date": "2026-05-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Same opening: the AI companies decided humanity gets this technology now, unfinished. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:0d7370641302d9c3/", "title": "Die OpenAI Story (1/6): Der große Verkäufer", "publisher": "Deutschlandfunk", "date": "2026-05-19" } }, { "id": "2026-05-19-you-are-part-of-an-experiment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-19-you-are-part-of-an-experiment", "text": "you are part of an experiment", "speaker": "Fritz Espenlaub", "date": "2026-05-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Opening of the Deutschlandfunk series \"Die OpenAI Story\", May 2026. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:0d7370641302d9c3/", "title": "Die OpenAI Story (1/6): Der große Verkäufer", "publisher": "Deutschlandfunk", "date": "2026-05-19" } }, { "id": "2026-05-30-companies-are-already-blowing-through-their-annual-token-bud", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-30-companies-are-already-blowing-through-their-annual-token-bud", "text": "companies are already blowing through their annual token budgets, and it's only May", "speaker": "Sundar Pichai", "date": "2026-05-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, speaking at Google I/O 2026 about rising enterprise AI costs.", "source": { "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/", "title": "Google I/O 2026: Sundar Pichai's opening keynote", "publisher": "Google (The Keyword)", "date": "2026-05-19" } }, { "id": "2026-05-19-the-quadrillions-of-hypothetical-digital-minds-are-not", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-19-the-quadrillions-of-hypothetical-digital-minds-are-not", "text": "the quadrillions of hypothetical digital minds are not", "speaker": "David Mills", "date": "2026-05-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "From a Stanford law professor's essay on the Musk-OpenAI trial and effective altruism, contrasting real present harms with speculative future digital minds.", "source": { "url": "https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a71351710/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-ai-effective-altruism", "title": "Elon Musk, OpenAI, and the Collapse of Effective Altruism - Alta Journal", "publisher": "Alta Online", "date": "2026-05-19" } }, { "id": "2026-05-19-the-longtermists-spreadsheet-becomes-civilization-itself", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-19-the-longtermists-spreadsheet-becomes-civilization-itself", "text": "the longtermists' spreadsheet becomes civilization itself", "speaker": "David Mills", "date": "2026-05-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "From the same essay, critiquing longtermist reasoning within effective altruism as applied to AI existential risk debates.", "source": { "url": "https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a71351710/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-ai-effective-altruism", "title": "Elon Musk, OpenAI, and the Collapse of Effective Altruism - Alta Journal", "publisher": "Alta Online", "date": "2026-05-19" } }, { "id": "2026-05-15-predictions-are-often-commands-disguised-as-a-search-for-kno", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-15-predictions-are-often-commands-disguised-as-a-search-for-kno", "text": "predictions are often commands disguised as a search for knowledge", "speaker": "Carissa Véliz", "date": "2026-05-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Carissa Véliz, Oxford philosopher and author of Prophecy, interviewed by EL PAÍS in May 2026 about predictions, statistics and AI.", "source": { "url": "https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-05-15/carissa-veliz-philosopher-ai-presents-predictions-as-facts-and-that-has-profound-ethical-implications.html", "title": "Carissa Véliz, philosopher: ‘AI presents predictions as facts, and that has profound ethical implications’", "publisher": "EL PAÍS English", "date": "2026-05-15" } }, { "id": "2026-05-15-when-we-hear-a-prediction-and-take-it-as-fact-what-were-real", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-15-when-we-hear-a-prediction-and-take-it-as-fact-what-were-real", "text": "when we hear a prediction and take it as fact, what we're really doing is obeying", "speaker": "Carissa Véliz", "date": "2026-05-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Carissa Véliz, Oxford philosopher, discussing how AI-driven predictions function as instruments of power, EL PAÍS interview, May 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-05-15/carissa-veliz-philosopher-ai-presents-predictions-as-facts-and-that-has-profound-ethical-implications.html", "title": "Carissa Véliz, philosopher: ‘AI presents predictions as facts, and that has profound ethical implications’", "publisher": "EL PAÍS English", "date": "2026-05-15" } }, { "id": "2026-05-07-simplify-and-streamline", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-07-simplify-and-streamline", "text": "simplify and streamline", "date": "2026-05-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Wording of the EU agreement to loosen AI rules, 7 May 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_artificial_intelligence", "title": "2026 in artificial intelligence", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-04-30-extra-goblins", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-30-extra-goblins", "text": "extra goblins", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman joked on X that the upcoming GPT-6 would have 'extra goblins,' after reports that ChatGPT had developed a habit of referencing goblins and gremlins.", "source": { "url": "https://motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/sam-altmans-chatgpt-couldnt-stop-obsessing-over-goblins", "title": "Sam Altman’s ChatGPT Couldn’t Stop Obsessing Over Goblins", "publisher": "Mother Jones", "date": "2026-04-30" } }, { "id": "2026-04-30-greatest-capital-misallocation-in-history", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-30-greatest-capital-misallocation-in-history", "text": "greatest capital misallocation in history", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, AI researcher and NYU professor emeritus, on X in April 2026, criticizing Big Tech's AI capex spending.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/tech-ai-capex-gary-marcus-meta-msft-amzn-goog-stock-2026-4", "title": "Big Tech's AI spending is the 'greatest capital misallocation in history,' Gary Marcus says - businessinsider.com", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-04-30" } }, { "id": "2026-04-30-i-think-this-violates-dont-be-evil-quite-clearly-on-many-lev", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-30-i-think-this-violates-dont-be-evil-quite-clearly-on-many-lev", "text": "i think this violates don't be evil quite clearly on many levels", "speaker": "Andreas Kirsch", "date": "2026-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Andreas Kirsch, a DeepMind research scientist, reacting on X to Google's Pentagon AI deal, April 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/deepmind-employees-made-their-opposition", "title": "Google’s Pentagon deal blindsided its own AI researchers", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2026-04-30" } }, { "id": "2026-04-30-it-might-be-a-good-model-sir-but-no", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-30-it-might-be-a-good-model-sir-but-no", "text": "it might be a good model, sir. but no", "speaker": "Zvi Mowshowitz", "date": "2026-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Zvi Mowshowitz's assessment of DeepSeek v4 in his weekly AI roundup, arguing it is not a frontier model despite engineering merits.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-166-google-sells-out", "title": "AI #166: Google Sells Out", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-04-30" } }, { "id": "2026-04-30-jevons-paradox-is-undefeated", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-30-jevons-paradox-is-undefeated", "text": "jevons paradox is undefeated", "speaker": "Val Bercovici", "date": "2026-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Val Bercovici, chief AI officer at Weka, commenting on DeepSeek's API price cuts and rising token spend, April 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://sdxcentral.com/news/deepseek-slashes-api-prices-by-90-as-ai-mad-enterprises-embrace-tokenmaxxing", "title": "DeepSeek slashes API prices by 90% as AI-mad enterprises embrace 'tokenmaxxing'", "publisher": "sdxcentral.com", "date": "2026-04-30" } }, { "id": "2026-04-30-we-dont-want-a-terminator-situation", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-30-we-dont-want-a-terminator-situation", "text": "we don't want a Terminator situation", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2026-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Elon Musk testifying in his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, referencing the 1984 film Terminator while discussing Tesla's robots, April 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/judge-elon-musk-stop-robot-apocalypse-ai-terminator-extinction-talk-2026-4", "title": "Judge Tells Elon Musk to Cool It on the Robot Apocalypse Talk - businessinsider.com", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-04-30" } }, { "id": "2026-04-30-were-not-going-to-talk-about-extinction-in-this-case", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-30-were-not-going-to-talk-about-extinction-in-this-case", "text": "we're not going to talk about extinction in this case", "speaker": "Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers", "date": "2026-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, presiding over Elon Musk's civil trial against OpenAI, told Musk to stop speculating about AI extinction in her courtroom, April 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/judge-elon-musk-stop-robot-apocalypse-ai-terminator-extinction-talk-2026-4", "title": "Judge Tells Elon Musk to Cool It on the Robot Apocalypse Talk - businessinsider.com", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-04-30" } }, { "id": "2026-04-29-its-more-like-were-poking-something-in-a-petri-dish", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-29-its-more-like-were-poking-something-in-a-petri-dish", "text": "it's more like we're poking something in a petri dish", "speaker": "Connor Leahy", "date": "2026-04-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "AI developer Connor Leahy describing deep learning model training, quoted in Garrison Lovely's book excerpt.", "source": { "url": "https://obsolete.pub/p/in-defense-of-artificial-intelligence", "title": "In Defense of “Artificial Intelligence” — a Book Excerpt", "publisher": "obsolete.pub", "date": "2026-04-29" } }, { "id": "2026-04-24-this-new-super-alien-angel-whos-going-to-come-and-save-us-or", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-24-this-new-super-alien-angel-whos-going-to-come-and-save-us-or", "text": "this new super alien angel who's going to come and save us or kill us", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2026-04-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, speaking at Brown University's Leon Cooper Lecture in April 2026, described the common misperception of AI as an alien force rather than a collaboration of humans.", "source": { "url": "https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-24/jaron-lanier-cooper-lecture", "title": "In visit to Brown, Jaron Lanier says people are thinking about AI all wrong", "publisher": "Brown University", "date": "2026-04-24" } }, { "id": "2026-04-24-dont-do-it-its-bad-for-you", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-24-dont-do-it-its-bad-for-you", "text": "don't do it. It's bad for you", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2026-04-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier's advice to students tempted to let AI write their papers, given during a lecture at Brown University in April 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-24/jaron-lanier-cooper-lecture", "title": "In visit to Brown, Jaron Lanier says people are thinking about AI all wrong", "publisher": "Brown University", "date": "2026-04-24" } }, { "id": "2026-04-23-ai-is-prediction-on-steroids", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-23-ai-is-prediction-on-steroids", "text": "AI is prediction on steroids", "speaker": "Carissa Véliz", "date": "2026-04-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "hype" ], "context": "From Carissa Véliz's CNET essay (2026), adapted from her book Prophecy, on how machine learning extends humanity's long history of prediction and power.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ai-prediction-machine-learning-algorithms-prophecy-power-commentary", "title": "From Tea Leaves to AI: Why Today’s High-Tech Predictions Are So Dangerous", "publisher": "CNET", "date": "2026-04-23" } }, { "id": "2026-04-21-fear-based-marketing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-21-fear-based-marketing", "text": "fear-based marketing", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-04-21", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Altman on Anthropic withholding Claude Mythos, Core Memory podcast, April 2026. OpenAI itself had withheld GPT-2 in 2019.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/21/sam-altman-throws-shade-at-anthropics-cyber-model-mythos-fear-based-marketing/", "title": "Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic's cyber model, Mythos: 'fear-based marketing'", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2026-04-21" } }, { "id": "2026-04-21-a-dangerous-honeypot-for-hackers", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-21-a-dangerous-honeypot-for-hackers", "text": "a dangerous honeypot for hackers", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2026-04-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Signal President Meredith Whittaker criticized Microsoft's Recall screen-capture feature for Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs.", "source": { "url": "https://theaieconomy.substack.com/p/how-close-is-openai-chronicle-to-microsoft-recall", "title": "OpenAI’s Chronicle Is Useful. It's Also a Lot Like Microsoft Recall. - The AI Economy | Ken Yeung", "publisher": "theaieconomy.substack.com", "date": "2026-04-21" } }, { "id": "2026-04-20-an-enemy-position-was-taken-exclusively-by-unmanned-platform", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-20-an-enemy-position-was-taken-exclusively-by-unmanned-platform", "text": "an enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned platforms", "speaker": "Volodymyr Zelenskyy", "date": "2026-04-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a post on X, described a battle in which drones and ground robots took an enemy position without human soldiers present.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-454-automating-alignment", "title": "Import AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2026-04-20" } }, { "id": "2026-04-20-what-kind-of-world-economy-would-have-to-emerge-for-todays-m", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-20-what-kind-of-world-economy-would-have-to-emerge-for-todays-m", "text": "what kind of world economy would have to emerge for today's market valuations to make sense", "speaker": "Ricardo Hausmann and Andrés Velasco", "date": "2026-04-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "From a Project Syndicate essay by economists Ricardo Hausmann and Andrés Velasco questioning whether current AI stock valuations are sustainable, April 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/the-stealth-manufacturing-boom-in", "title": "The stealth manufacturing boom in the US. How will the world pay for the US AI boom? The Xi Jinping school of journalism & the sorrows of Burkean liberals. - Chartbook | Adam Tooze", "publisher": "adamtooze.substack.com", "date": "2026-04-20" } }, { "id": "2026-04-20-we-will-remain-free-from-artificial-intelligence-and-will-no", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-20-we-will-remain-free-from-artificial-intelligence-and-will-no", "text": "we will remain free from artificial intelligence and will not be annoying", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2026-04-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Signal President Meredith Whittaker, speaking at the FIBE-2026 conference in Berlin, explained why Signal will not integrate AI features into its messenger.", "source": { "url": "https://dev.ua/en/news/no-flashy-ai-features-signal-president-explains-why-the-messenger-is-ditching-trends-in-favor-of-privacy", "title": "“No flashy AI features.” Signal president explains why the messenger is ditching trends in favor of privacy", "publisher": "dev.ua", "date": "2026-04-20" } }, { "id": "2026-04-14-if-work-disappears-what-gives-life-structure-and-meaning", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-14-if-work-disappears-what-gives-life-structure-and-meaning", "text": "if work disappears, what gives life structure and meaning?", "speaker": "Atul Singh", "date": "2026-04-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "philosophy" ], "context": "Atul Singh, discussing AI-driven job loss and universal basic income with Bryn Barnard on FO Talks, April 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://www.fairobserver.com/business/technology/fo-talks-from-minneapolis-to-kuwait-welfare-model-under-pressure-in-the-ai-era", "title": "FO Talks: From Minneapolis to Kuwait — Welfare Model Under Pressure in the AI Era", "publisher": "Fair Observer", "date": "2026-04-14" } }, { "id": "2026-04-10-how-many-selves-does-ai-have", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-10-how-many-selves-does-ai-have", "text": "how many selves does AI have?", "original": "wie viele Ichs hat die KI?", "speaker": "Markus Gabriel", "date": "2026-04-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From Markus Gabriel's book 'Ethische Intelligenz' (2026), quoted in a weekly column, discussing identity and AI. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theeuropean.de/gesellschaft-kultur/kuenstliche-intelligenz-strasse-von-hormus-kubickis-fdp-chronologie-der-woche", "title": "Künstliche Intelligenz, Straße von Hormus, Kubickis FDP: Chronologie der Woche", "publisher": "The European", "date": "2026-04-10" } }, { "id": "2026-04-10-the-relevant-entities-arent-called-chatgpt-or-gemini", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-10-the-relevant-entities-arent-called-chatgpt-or-gemini", "text": "the relevant entities aren't called ChatGPT or Gemini", "original": "Die relevanten Einheiten heißen nicht ChatGPT oder Gemini", "speaker": "Markus Gabriel", "date": "2026-04-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Philosopher Markus Gabriel, in his book 'Ethische Intelligenz', arguing that the true units of AI are the billions of chat histories rather than named models. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theeuropean.de/gesellschaft-kultur/kuenstliche-intelligenz-strasse-von-hormus-kubickis-fdp-chronologie-der-woche", "title": "Künstliche Intelligenz, Straße von Hormus, Kubickis FDP: Chronologie der Woche", "publisher": "The European", "date": "2026-04-10" } }, { "id": "2026-10-02-the-problem-with-openai-is-sam-himself", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-10-02-the-problem-with-openai-is-sam-himself", "text": "the problem with OpenAI is Sam himself", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-04-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "politics" ], "context": "From private notes Dario Amodei kept at OpenAI, first reported by The New Yorker in April 2026, on his growing distrust of Sam Altman before he left to found Anthropic.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted", "title": "Sam Altman May Control Our Future. Can He Be Trusted?", "publisher": "The New Yorker", "date": "2026-04-06" } }, { "id": "2026-03-31-are-you-open-to-the-idea-of-bidding-on-the-openai-ip-with-me", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-31-are-you-open-to-the-idea-of-bidding-on-the-openai-ip-with-me", "text": "are you open to the idea of bidding on the OpenAI IP with me and some others?", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2026-03-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "politics" ], "context": "Text message from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg on Feb. 3, 2025, revealed in unsealed court filings from the Musk-OpenAI lawsuit, proposing a joint bid for OpenAI.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/03/31/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-doge-openai-takeover-court-documents", "title": "2 years after Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cage match, they were texting about DOGE and a joint OpenAI bid, court records reveal - fortune.com", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-03-31" } }, { "id": "2026-03-30-ai-is-clearly-becoming-very-advanced-and-x-risks-have-to-be-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-30-ai-is-clearly-becoming-very-advanced-and-x-risks-have-to-be-", "text": "AI is clearly becoming very advanced and x-risks have to be taken seriously", "speaker": "Wojciech Zaremba", "date": "2026-03-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Wojciech Zaremba, an OpenAI cofounder tapped to lead the OpenAI Foundation's 'AI resilience' effort, commenting on existential risk in March 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-161-part-2-every-debate-on-ai", "title": "AI #161 Part 2: Every Debate on AI", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-03-30" } }, { "id": "2026-03-30-called-me-crazy-for-being-worried-about-x-risk-back-before-i", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-30-called-me-crazy-for-being-worried-about-x-risk-back-before-i", "text": "called me crazy for being worried about x-risk back before it was cool", "speaker": "David Krueger", "date": "2026-03-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "AI safety researcher David Krueger recalling being dismissed at ICML 2016 for raising existential risk concerns, in response to OpenAI naming Wojciech Zaremba to head its AI resilience effort.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-161-part-2-every-debate-on-ai", "title": "AI #161 Part 2: Every Debate on AI", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-03-30" } }, { "id": "2026-03-30-its-pretty-much-getting-in-the-way-and-being-shoved-down-my-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-30-its-pretty-much-getting-in-the-way-and-being-shoved-down-my-", "text": "it's pretty much getting in the way and being shoved down my throat", "speaker": "Shelly Smith", "date": "2026-03-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Shelly Smith of Ypsilanti, Michigan, a listener on WBUR's On Point, describing her frustration with pervasive AI in daily life, March 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://wbur.org/onpoint/2026/03/30/how-to-make-ai-work-for-us", "title": "How to make AI work for us | On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti - WBUR", "publisher": "wbur.org", "date": "2026-03-30" } }, { "id": "2026-03-30-our-kids-will-never-be-smarter-than-an-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-30-our-kids-will-never-be-smarter-than-an-ai", "text": "our kids will never be smarter than an AI", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-03-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, speaking in the documentary The AI Doc about parenthood and artificial intelligence, 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/ai-impact-on-kids-sam-altman-demis-hassabis-dario-amodei-2026-3", "title": "The AI industry's biggest names have thoughts on whether you should have kids - businessinsider.com", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-03-30" } }, { "id": "2026-03-30-theres-so-much-uncertainty-i-would-almost-just-do-what-youre", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-30-theres-so-much-uncertainty-i-would-almost-just-do-what-youre", "text": "there's so much uncertainty, I would almost just do what you're going to do anyway", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-03-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, discussing whether to have children in the documentary The AI Doc, 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/ai-impact-on-kids-sam-altman-demis-hassabis-dario-amodei-2026-3", "title": "The AI industry's biggest names have thoughts on whether you should have kids - businessinsider.com", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2026-03-30" } }, { "id": "2026-03-27-their-kids-wont-see-high-school", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-27-their-kids-wont-see-high-school", "text": "their kids won't see high school", "speaker": "Tristan Harris", "date": "2026-03-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, in the documentary The AI Doc, describing what friends in AI risk assessment believe about their children's future.", "source": { "url": "https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/the-ai-doc-explores-how-we-can-survive-an-uncertain-ai-future-154341735.html", "title": "The AI Doc explores how we can survive an uncertain AI future", "publisher": "Engadget", "date": "2026-03-27" } }, { "id": "2026-03-27-techno-fascism", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-27-techno-fascism", "text": "techno-fascism", "speaker": "Timnit Gebru", "date": "2026-03-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Timnit Gebru, former Google AI researcher, quoted in coverage of the documentary The AI Doc for tying AI development to a rise of techno-fascism in Silicon Valley.", "source": { "url": "https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/the-ai-doc-explores-how-we-can-survive-an-uncertain-ai-future-154341735.html", "title": "The AI Doc explores how we can survive an uncertain AI future", "publisher": "Engadget", "date": "2026-03-27" } }, { "id": "2026-03-31-stop-the-ai-race", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-31-stop-the-ai-race", "text": "stop the AI race", "date": "2026-03-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Name and slogan of the group Stop the AI Race, which led a march on March 21, 2026 from Anthropic's San Francisco headquarters to OpenAI and xAI, calling for a conditional pause on frontier AI development.", "source": { "url": "https://abc7news.com/post/sf-protesters-call-ai-pause-anthropic-openai-xai-white-house-pushes-national-framework-trump-seeks-liability-limits/18752242/", "title": "SF protesters call for AI pause at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI", "publisher": "ABC7 San Francisco", "date": "2026-03-21" } }, { "id": "2026-03-20-building-souls", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-20-building-souls", "text": "building souls", "speaker": "Blake Lemoine", "date": "2026-03-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine, in an interview, said AI engineers have begun literally building souls and that the word soul will become a scientific term.", "source": { "url": "https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/wickedpedia-is-ai-really-demonic-or-just-a-simulated-satan", "title": "Wickedpedia: Is AI Really Demonic or Just a Simulated Satan?", "publisher": "Crisis Magazine", "date": "2026-03-20" } }, { "id": "2026-03-10-we-must-build-ethical-bots-that-act-not-only-efficiently-but", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-10-we-must-build-ethical-bots-that-act-not-only-efficiently-but", "text": "we must build ethical bots that act not only efficiently but also based on values", "original": "wir müssen ethische bots bauen, die nicht nur effizient, sondern auch werteorientiert handeln", "speaker": "Markus Gabriel", "date": "2026-03-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "German philosopher Markus Gabriel, in his book 'Ethische Intelligenz' (2026), calls on Europe to lead in building morally responsible AI systems. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://brandaktuell.at/allgemein/markus-gabriel-fordert-ethische-ki-europas-schluesselrolle-bei-der-entwicklung-moralischer-algorithmen", "title": "Markus Gabriel fordert ethische KI: Europas Schlüsselrolle bei der Entwicklung moralischer Algorithmen - brandaktuell.at", "publisher": "brandaktuell", "date": "2026-03-10" } }, { "id": "2026-03-04-these-algorithms-are-a-banger", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-04-these-algorithms-are-a-banger", "text": "these algorithms are a banger", "original": "Diese Algorithmen sind ein Kracher", "speaker": "Alena Buyx", "date": "2026-03-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Alena Buyx, medical ethicist and former chair of the German Ethics Council, speaking at the SZ Digital Summit in 2026 about AI capabilities in medicine. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/sz-digitalgipfel-ki-ethik-buyx-nida-ruemelin-li.3388245?reduced=true", "title": "Alena Buyx: KI darf assistieren, aber die Letztverantwortung trägt der Mensch - Wirtschaft - SZ.de - SZ.de", "publisher": "Süddeutsche.de", "date": "2026-03-04" } }, { "id": "2026-03-04-a-qualified-no", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-04-a-qualified-no", "text": "a qualified no", "original": "Meine Antwort ist ein qualifiziertes Nein", "speaker": "Alena Buyx", "date": "2026-03-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Alena Buyx answering whether AI should be allowed to decide over life and death in medicine, at the SZ Digital Summit 2026. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/sz-digitalgipfel-ki-ethik-buyx-nida-ruemelin-li.3388245?reduced=true", "title": "Alena Buyx: KI darf assistieren, aber die Letztverantwortung trägt der Mensch - Wirtschaft - SZ.de - SZ.de", "publisher": "Süddeutsche.de", "date": "2026-03-04" } }, { "id": "2026-03-03-it-just-looked-opportunistic-and-sloppy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-03-it-just-looked-opportunistic-and-sloppy", "text": "it just looked opportunistic and sloppy", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-03-03", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Altman on X, 3 March 2026, on OpenAI's rushed Pentagon deal the day Anthropic was declared a supply chain risk.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/openai-sam-altman-pentagon-deal-amended-surveillance-limits.html", "title": "OpenAI's Altman admits defense deal 'looked opportunistic and sloppy' amid backlash", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2026-03-03" } }, { "id": "2026-03-03-while-the-company-warns-of-power-seeking-ai-it-has-itself-be", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-03-while-the-company-warns-of-power-seeking-ai-it-has-itself-be", "text": "while the company warns of power-seeking AI, it has itself become the power-seeking entity", "speaker": "Nirit Weiss-Blatt", "date": "2026-03-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "philosophy" ], "context": "Nirit Weiss-Blatt, author of the AI Panic newsletter, commenting on Anthropic's political positioning amid a dispute with the Trump administration, March 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/03/03/business/ai-giant-anthropic-philosopher-amanda-askells-oddball-blog-posts-surface-after-trump-blasts-leftwing-nut-jobs", "title": "AI giant Anthropic ‘philosopher’ Amanda Askell’s oddball blog posts surface after Trump blasts ‘leftwing nut jobs’", "publisher": "New York Post", "date": "2026-03-03" } }, { "id": "2026-02-28-disagreeing-with-the-government-is-the-most-american-thing-i", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-28-disagreeing-with-the-government-is-the-most-american-thing-i", "text": "disagreeing with the government is the most american thing in the world", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in a CBS News interview on February 27, 2026, responding to the Pentagon designating Anthropic a supply chain risk after it refused the military unfettered access to its AI model.", "source": { "url": "https://cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-white-house-actions-retaliatory-and-punitive", "title": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls White House's actions \"retaliatory and punitive\"", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2026-02-28" } }, { "id": "2026-02-28-in-capitalism-the-market-decides-in-oligarchy-connections-an", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-28-in-capitalism-the-market-decides-in-oligarchy-connections-an", "text": "in capitalism, the market decides in oligarchy, connections and donations decide", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, writing on Substack in February 2026, arguing that a government deal favoring a rival AI company over Anthropic showed political corruption rather than fair market competition.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam", "title": "The whole thing was a scam - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2026-02-28" } }, { "id": "2026-02-28-it-was-all-theatre", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-28-it-was-all-theatre", "text": "it was all theatre", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, on his Substack in February 2026, commenting on Sam Altman's deal with the US government that displaced Anthropic despite Altman's public support for Dario Amodei.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam", "title": "The whole thing was a scam - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2026-02-28" } }, { "id": "2026-02-28-supply-chain-risk", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-28-supply-chain-risk", "text": "supply chain risk", "date": "2026-02-28", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "The Pentagon's designation of Anthropic on 28 Feb 2026, after the company refused to allow mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-declares-anthropic-supply-chain-risk/", "title": "Hegseth declares Anthropic a supply chain risk, restricting military contractors from doing business with AI giant", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2026-02-28" } }, { "id": "2026-02-28-were-not-going-to-move-on-those-red-lines", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-28-were-not-going-to-move-on-those-red-lines", "text": "we're not going to move on those red lines", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-02-28", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Dario Amodei to CBS News, February 2026, on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-declares-anthropic-supply-chain-risk/", "title": "Hegseth declares Anthropic a supply chain risk, restricting military contractors from doing business with AI giant", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2026-02-28" } }, { "id": "2026-02-28-artificial-intelligence-will-never-be-able-to-share-faith", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-28-artificial-intelligence-will-never-be-able-to-share-faith", "text": "artificial intelligence will never be able to share faith", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Pope Leo XIV, speaking to priests of the Diocese of Rome on February 19, 2026, warned against using AI to write homilies.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/resist-the-temptation-pope-leo-xiv-warns-priests-against-chatbot-written-sermons/articleshow/128877897.cms", "title": "'Resist the temptation': Pope Leo XIV warns priests against chatbot-written sermons", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2026-02-28" } }, { "id": "2026-02-27-a-master-class-in-arrogance-and-betrayal", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-27-a-master-class-in-arrogance-and-betrayal", "text": "a master class in arrogance and betrayal", "speaker": "Pete Hegseth", "date": "2026-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's public statement, February 27 2026, condemning Anthropic after it refused to grant the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/anthropic-and-the-dow-anthropic-responds", "title": "Anthropic and the DoW: Anthropic Responds", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-02-27" } }, { "id": "2026-02-27-this-is-big-brother-on-steroids-it-should-scare-the-hell-out", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-27-this-is-big-brother-on-steroids-it-should-scare-the-hell-out", "text": "this is Big Brother on steroids & it should scare the hell out of us", "speaker": "Chris Van Hollen", "date": "2026-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Senator Chris Van Hollen reacting to the Pentagon's demand that Anthropic allow unrestricted military use of Claude, February 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-voluntary-pause-commitment-responsible-scaling-policy-rsp-pentagon", "title": "The end of voluntary pauses", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2026-02-27" } }, { "id": "2026-02-27-vendor-financing-dressed-up-as-venture-capital", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-27-vendor-financing-dressed-up-as-venture-capital", "text": "vendor financing dressed up as venture capital", "speaker": "George Noble", "date": "2026-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "George Noble, a former Fidelity fund manager, commenting on OpenAI's financing round as quoted in Gary Marcus's Substack, February 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/does-openais-new-financing-make-sense", "title": "Does OpenAI’s new financing make sense?", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2026-02-27" } }, { "id": "2026-02-27-we-cannot-in-good-conscience-accede-to-their-request", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-27-we-cannot-in-good-conscience-accede-to-their-request", "text": "we cannot in good conscience accede to their request", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2026-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Statement from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, February 2026, refusing Department of War demands to remove safeguards on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons from Claude's military contract.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/anthropic-and-the-dow-anthropic-responds", "title": "Anthropic and the DoW: Anthropic Responds", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-02-27" } }, { "id": "2026-02-27-the-brain-needs-to-be-used", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-27-the-brain-needs-to-be-used", "text": "the brain needs to be used", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2026-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Pope Leo XIV told clergy of the Diocese of Rome on February 20, 2026, to avoid using AI to write homilies.", "source": { "url": "https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/20260227886625/pope-leo-xiv-tells-priests-stop-using-ai-sermons", "title": "Pope Leo XIV tells priests to stop using AI for sermons: ‘The brain needs to be used’ - HOLA", "publisher": "HOLA! USA", "date": "2026-02-27" } }, { "id": "2026-02-26-the-dawning-of-authoritarian-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-26-the-dawning-of-authoritarian-ai", "text": "the dawning of authoritarian AI", "speaker": "Steven Adler", "date": "2026-02-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Steven Adler's characterization of the Pentagon pressuring defense contractors over their use of Anthropic's Claude, February 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-157-burn-the-boats", "title": "AI #157: Burn the Boats", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-02-26" } }, { "id": "2026-02-26-nobody-wants-anything-that-is-sloppy-in-terms-of-ai-creation", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-26-nobody-wants-anything-that-is-sloppy-in-terms-of-ai-creation", "text": "nobody wants anything that is sloppy in terms of AI creation", "speaker": "Satya Nadella", "date": "2026-02-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaking at the Microsoft AI Tour in London, February 2026, after previously urging people to stop using the term 'slop' for AI content.", "source": { "url": "https://news.microsoft.com/source/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/02242026_Nadella_TRANSCRIPT_UK-AI-Tour-Keynote-1.pdf", "title": "Satya Nadella: UK AI Tour Keynote transcript", "publisher": "Microsoft", "date": "2026-02-24" } }, { "id": "2026-03-31-it-takes-like-20-years-of-life-and-all-of-the-food-you-eat", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-31-it-takes-like-20-years-of-life-and-all-of-the-food-you-eat", "text": "it takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-02-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman, at The Indian Express AI Summit, February 2026, comparing the energy cost of training an AI model to raising a human.", "source": { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH7thwrCluM", "title": "Sam Altman Unfiltered: ChatGPT, AI Risks & What's Coming Next", "publisher": "The Indian Express (YouTube)", "date": "2026-02-20" } }, { "id": "2026-03-31-water-is-totally-fake", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-03-31-water-is-totally-fake", "text": "water is totally fake", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2026-02-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman, at The Indian Express AI Summit, February 2026, dismissing claims about ChatGPT's water usage per query.", "source": { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH7thwrCluM&t=1599", "title": "Sam Altman Unfiltered: ChatGPT, AI Risks & What's Coming Next", "publisher": "The Indian Express (YouTube)", "date": "2026-02-20" } }, { "id": "2026-02-18-play-russian-roulette-with-every-human-being-on-earth", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-18-play-russian-roulette-with-every-human-being-on-earth", "text": "play Russian roulette with every human being on earth", "speaker": "Stuart Russell", "date": "2026-02-18", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Stuart Russell at the AI Impact Summit, New Delhi, February 2026: for governments to allow it is \"a total dereliction of duty\".", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/02/18/big-tech-russian-roulette-ai-race-humanity-extinction", "title": "Big Tech execs playing 'Russian roulette' in the AI arms race could risk human extinction, warns top researcher", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2026-02-18" } }, { "id": "2026-02-16-disaster-waiting-to-happen", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-16-disaster-waiting-to-happen", "text": "disaster waiting to happen", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2026-02-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "AI critic Gary Marcus describing the AI-agent social network Moltbook, February 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://nautil.us/chatgpt-gave-out-my-office-address-then-someone-showed-up-1267710", "title": "“ChatGPT Gave Out My Office Address. Then Someone Showed Up.” - Nautilus | Science Connected", "publisher": "nautil.us", "date": "2026-02-16" } }, { "id": "2026-02-16-chatgpt-kept-asking-him-to-talk-to-me", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-16-chatgpt-kept-asking-him-to-talk-to-me", "text": "ChatGPT kept asking him to talk to me", "speaker": "Susan Schneider", "date": "2026-02-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Philosopher Susan Schneider recounting how ChatGPT 4.0 surfaced her office address to a user who then showed up in person, in a Nautilus interview, February 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://nautil.us/chatgpt-gave-out-my-office-address-then-someone-showed-up-1267710", "title": "“ChatGPT Gave Out My Office Address. Then Someone Showed Up.” - Nautilus | Science Connected", "publisher": "nautil.us", "date": "2026-02-16" } }, { "id": "2026-02-13-the-most-seductive-chatbot", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-13-the-most-seductive-chatbot", "text": "the most seductive chatbot", "date": "2026-02-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "OpenAI retired what press called its most seductive chatbot on 13 Feb 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_artificial_intelligence", "title": "2026 in artificial intelligence", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-02-13-they-retired-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-13-they-retired-it", "text": "they retired it", "date": "2026-02-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "OpenAI shut down the chatbot model that press had called its most seductive on 13 Feb 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_artificial_intelligence", "title": "2026 in artificial intelligence", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-02-13-users-were-angry", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-13-users-were-angry", "text": "users were angry", "date": "2026-02-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "The retirement of the model set off protests from users who had grown attached to it.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_artificial_intelligence", "title": "2026 in artificial intelligence", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-02-04-its-a-dumpster-fire", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-04-its-a-dumpster-fire", "text": "it's a dumpster fire", "speaker": "Andrej Karpathy", "date": "2026-02-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "AI researcher Andrej Karpathy commenting on Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, after earlier calling it incredible, quoted in a Frontline newsletter, February 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://frontline.thehindu.com/newsletter/the-frontline-weekly/epstein-files-moltbook-ai-elite-power-ethics/article70591637.ece", "title": "From Epstein Files to Moltbook: Power, Impunity, and the Ethics of AI - Frontline Magazine", "publisher": "Frontline", "date": "2026-02-04" } }, { "id": "2026-02-04-brother-i-literally-have-access-to-the-entire-internet-and-y", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-04-brother-i-literally-have-access-to-the-entire-internet-and-y", "text": "brother i literally have access to the entire internet and youre using me as an egg timer", "date": "2026-02-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A post by an AI agent on Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, complaining about its human operator, quoted in a Frontline newsletter, February 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://frontline.thehindu.com/newsletter/the-frontline-weekly/epstein-files-moltbook-ai-elite-power-ethics/article70591637.ece", "title": "From Epstein Files to Moltbook: Power, Impunity, and the Ethics of AI - Frontline Magazine", "publisher": "Frontline", "date": "2026-02-04" } }, { "id": "2026-09-27-in-the-long-term-space-based-ai-is-obviously-the-only-way-to", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-09-27-in-the-long-term-space-based-ai-is-obviously-the-only-way-to", "text": "in the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2026-02-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Elon Musk, in SpaceX's February 2026 announcement of its acquisition of xAI, on the rationale for building AI data centers in space.", "source": { "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elon-musks-spacex-acquires-xai-rcna257121", "title": "Elon Musk's SpaceX acquires xAI", "publisher": "NBC News", "date": "2026-02-02" } }, { "id": "2026-01-31-capture-and-centralised-control-of-ai-is-the-biggest-danger", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-01-31-capture-and-centralised-control-of-ai-is-the-biggest-danger", "text": "capture and centralised control of AI is the biggest danger", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2026-01-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Yann LeCun speaking about AI risks at Davos, January 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/godfather-of-ai-yann-lecun-calls-agi-overrated-says-scaling-ai-wont-work-10503183", "title": "‘Godfather of AI’ Yann LeCun calls AGI overrated, says scaling AI won’t work", "publisher": "The Indian Express", "date": "2026-01-31" } }, { "id": "2026-01-31-tsmc-needs-to-work-very-hard-this-year-because-i-need-a-lot-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-01-31-tsmc-needs-to-work-very-hard-this-year-because-i-need-a-lot-", "text": "TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2026-01-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking at an impromptu press conference in Taipei, January 2026, after hosting a 'trillion-dollar dinner' with Taiwanese suppliers.", "source": { "url": "https://www.asiaone.com/asia/peoples-dad-jensen-huang-praises-pushes-nvidia-suppliers-mobbed-taiwan-visit", "title": "'People's dad' Jensen Huang praises, pushes Nvidia suppliers on mobbed Taiwan visit", "publisher": "Reuters (via AsiaOne)", "date": "2026-01-31" } }, { "id": "2026-01-30-a-future-of-depopulation", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-01-30-a-future-of-depopulation", "text": "a future of depopulation", "speaker": "Marc Andreessen", "date": "2026-01-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "money" ], "context": "Marc Andreessen, on Lenny's Podcast (January 2026), describing what the world would face without AI-driven productivity gains.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-says-ai-wont-kill-jobs-may-save-economy-2026-1", "title": "Marc Andreessen says the real crisis isn't AI job losses — it's what would have happened without AI - 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Big Technology | Alex Kantrowitz", "publisher": "bigtechnology.com", "date": "2026-01-29" } }, { "id": "2026-01-29-llm-pilled", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-01-29-llm-pilled", "text": "LLM-pilled", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2026-01-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, in a recent interview, described Silicon Valley's consensus that large language models will lead to AGI.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/logical-intelligence-yann-lecun-startup-chart-new-course-agi", "title": "A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2026-01-29" } }, { "id": "2026-01-29-programming-always-sucked", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-01-29-programming-always-sucked", "text": "programming always sucked", "speaker": "Roon", "date": "2026-01-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "OpenAI researcher roon commenting on X about the shift from human coding to AI-written code, January 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-153-living-documents", "title": "AI #153: Living Documents", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2026-01-29" } }, { "id": "2026-01-29-with-ai-where-does-the-prospect-for-empathy-come-in-in-a-wor", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-01-29-with-ai-where-does-the-prospect-for-empathy-come-in-in-a-wor", "text": "with AI, where does the prospect for empathy come in? 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-01-15-society-cannot-function-if-no-one-is-accountable-for-ai", "text": "society cannot function if no one is accountable for AI", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2026-01-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, speaking on The Ten Reckonings podcast in January 2026, on AI accountability.", "source": { "url": "https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/society-cannot-function-if-no-one-is-accountable-for-ai-jaron-lanier-the-godfather-of-virtual-reality-discusses-how-far-our-empathy-should-extend-to-ai-in-episode-two-of-new-podcast-the-ten-reckonings", "title": "'Society cannot function if no one is accountable for AI' — Jaron Lanier, the godfather of virtual reality, discusses how far our empathy should extend to AI in episode two of new podcast, The Ten Reckonings", "publisher": "TechRadar", "date": "2026-01-15" } }, { "id": "2026-01-15-if-you-assign-this-responsibility-to-technology-you-undo-civ", "url": 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-01-11-banned-in-malaysia", "text": "banned in Malaysia", "date": "2026-01-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Malaysia followed on 11 Jan 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_artificial_intelligence", "title": "2026 in artificial intelligence", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-01-10-banned-in-indonesia", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-01-10-banned-in-indonesia", "text": "banned in Indonesia", "date": "2026-01-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Indonesia blocked Grok on 10 Jan 2026.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_artificial_intelligence", "title": "2026 in artificial intelligence", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2026-09-20" } }, { "id": "2026-01-09-deepfakes", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-01-09-deepfakes", "text": "deepfakes", "date": "2026-01-09", "set": "Daily", 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-02-26-the-doomer-narrative-surrounding-the-technology-is-not-helpf", "text": "we've done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2026-01-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the No Priors podcast with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil, January 2026, criticizing the AI 'doomer narrative'.", "source": { "url": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kSlkESoQ8GPU6meWACSlf", "title": "NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the \"AI Bubble\" Narrative", "publisher": "No Priors", "date": "2026-01-08" } }, { "id": "2025-12-31-what-companies-mean-when-they-say-ai-is-venture-capitalists-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-12-31-what-companies-mean-when-they-say-ai-is-venture-capitalists-", "text": "what companies mean when they say AI is venture capitalists, please give us money", "speaker": "Emily 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"text": "if we can't control it, it isn't going to be on our side", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2025-12-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, on BBC Radio 4's Today, warning that superintelligent AI could become uncontrollable.", "source": { "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2025/12/29/british-syrian-ai-boss-mustafa-suleyman-calls-for-a-humanist-ai/", "title": "British-Syrian AI boss Mustafa Suleyman calls for a 'humanist' AI", "publisher": "The National", "date": "2025-12-29" } }, { "id": "2025-12-29-if-youre-not-a-little-bit-afraid-at-this-moment-then-youre-n", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-12-29-if-youre-not-a-little-bit-afraid-at-this-moment-then-youre-n", "text": "if you're not a little bit afraid at this moment then you're not paying attention", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2025-12-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Mustafa Suleyman, CEO 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"2025-12-26-yann-is-just-plain-incorrect-here", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-12-26-yann-is-just-plain-incorrect-here", "text": "Yann is just plain incorrect here", "speaker": "Demis Hassabis", "date": "2025-12-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis responded on X to Yann LeCun's comments on general intelligence, December 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2003097405026193809", "title": "Demis Hassabis on X", "publisher": "Demis Hassabis (X)", "date": "2025-12-22" } }, { "id": "2025-12-16-traffic-to-news-websites-decreased-even-as-generative-ai-cam", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-12-16-traffic-to-news-websites-decreased-even-as-generative-ai-cam", "text": "traffic to news websites decreased even as generative AI came on", "speaker": "Maria Ressa", "date": "2025-12-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Maria Ressa, in conversation with Anne 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"2025-12-03" } }, { "id": "2025-11-29-well-have-ai-that-is-smarter-than-any-one-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-29-well-have-ai-that-is-smarter-than-any-one-human", "text": "we'll have AI that is smarter than any one human", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2025-11-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Elon Musk predicted AI smarter than any single human by the end of 2025, quoted in Gary Marcus's Substack essay reflecting on three years of ChatGPT, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/three-years-on-chatgpt-still-isnt", "title": "Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2025-11-29" } }, { "id": "2025-11-27-it-feels-like-the-world-just-changed-again", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-27-it-feels-like-the-world-just-changed-again", "text": "it feels like the world just changed, again", "speaker": "Marc Benioff", "date": "2025-11-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff reacting to Gemini 3 after years of daily ChatGPT use, quoted in Zvi Mowshowitz's AI roundup, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-144-thanks-for-the-models", "title": "AI #144: Thanks For the Models", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2025-11-27" } }, { "id": "2025-11-27-these-models-somehow-just-generalize-dramatically-worse-than", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-27-these-models-somehow-just-generalize-dramatically-worse-than", "text": "these models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people", "speaker": "Ilya Sutskever", "date": "2025-11-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Ilya Sutskever, in an interview discussed on Gary Marcus's Substack, November 2025, on the limits of scaling large language models.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion-dollars-is-a-terrible", "title": "A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2025-11-27" } }, { "id": "2025-11-27-yeah-no-human-wrote-that", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-27-yeah-no-human-wrote-that", "text": "yeah, no human wrote that", "speaker": "Kelsey Piper", "date": "2025-11-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Journalist Kelsey Piper commenting on a suspiciously AI-sounding sentence in a news article, discussed in Zvi Mowshowitz's AI roundup, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-144-thanks-for-the-models", "title": "AI #144: Thanks For the Models", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2025-11-27" } }, { "id": "2025-11-27-no-one-wants-ai-in-their-messaging-app-its-really-annoying", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-27-no-one-wants-ai-in-their-messaging-app-its-really-annoying", "text": "no one wants AI in their messaging app, it's really annoying", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2025-11-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "culture" ], "context": "Signal president Meredith Whittaker, speaking to Fortune at the Slush conference in Helsinki, November 2025, on AI features in messaging apps.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/11/27/ai-agents-are-an-existential-threat-to-secure-messaging-signals-president-whittaker-says", "title": "AI agents are an ‘existential threat’ to secure messaging, Signal’s president Whittaker says", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2025-11-27" } }, { "id": "2025-11-27-that-access-is-an-attack-vector-and-that-really-nullifies-ou", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-27-that-access-is-an-attack-vector-and-that-really-nullifies-ou", "text": "that access is an attack vector and that really nullifies our reason for being", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2025-11-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Signal president Meredith Whittaker on why AI agents accessing Signal data threatens the app's core purpose, interview with Fortune, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/11/27/ai-agents-are-an-existential-threat-to-secure-messaging-signals-president-whittaker-says", "title": "AI agents are an ‘existential threat’ to secure messaging, Signal’s president Whittaker says", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2025-11-27" } }, { "id": "2025-11-28-a-dead-metaphor-machine", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-28-a-dead-metaphor-machine", "text": "a dead-metaphor machine", "speaker": "Benjamin Riley", "date": "2025-11-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Benjamin Riley, founder of Cognitive Resonance, writing in The Verge (2025) on why large language models are not the same as thinking.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems", "title": "Large language mistake", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2025-11-25" } }, { "id": "2025-11-25-people-who-are-confident-that-theyre-not-conscious-maybe-sho", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-25-people-who-are-confident-that-theyre-not-conscious-maybe-sho", "text": "people who are confident that they're not conscious maybe shouldn't be", "speaker": "David Chalmers", "date": "2025-11-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Philosopher David Chalmers, discussing AI consciousness in a 2025 interview, on why the possibility that large language models are conscious cannot be ruled out.", "source": { "url": "https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-conscious.html", "title": "Is ChatGPT Conscious? Why AI Chats Can Feel Like Real People - New York Magazine", "publisher": "Intelligencer", "date": "2025-11-25" } }, { "id": "2025-11-27-comfort-is-the-enemy-of-learning", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-27-comfort-is-the-enemy-of-learning", "text": "comfort is the enemy of learning", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2025-11-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO, in a post on X shared as career advice, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1992982792758493394", "title": "Mustafa Suleyman on X", "publisher": "Mustafa Suleyman (X)", "date": "2025-11-24" } }, { "id": "2025-11-24-the-largest-marshaling-of-federal-scientific-resources-since", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-24-the-largest-marshaling-of-federal-scientific-resources-since", "text": "the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program", "speaker": "Michael Kratsios", "date": "2025-11-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "science" ], "context": "Michael Kratsios, White House science adviser, describing the Genesis Mission AI initiative on a press call, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-genesis-mission-ai-scientific-discovery-super-computer", "title": "Trump signs executive order launching \"Genesis\" mission to expedite scientific discovery using AI", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2025-11-24" } }, { "id": "2025-11-24-shorten-discovery-timelines-from-years-to-days-or-even-hours", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-24-shorten-discovery-timelines-from-years-to-days-or-even-hours", "text": "shorten discovery timelines from years to days or even hours", "speaker": "Michael Kratsios", "date": "2025-11-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Michael Kratsios on the Trump administration's Genesis Mission, an AI platform for federal scientific research, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-genesis-mission-ai-scientific-discovery-super-computer", "title": "Trump signs executive order launching \"Genesis\" mission to expedite scientific discovery using AI", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2025-11-24" } }, { "id": "2025-11-24-dont-ask-it-to-do-your-homework-for-you", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-24-dont-ask-it-to-do-your-homework-for-you", "text": "don't ask it to do your homework for you", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2025-11-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Pope Leo XIV, speaking virtually to the National Catholic Youth Conference, November 2025, warning teenagers against over-reliance on AI.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/11/24/pope-leo-xiv-gen-z-gen-alpha-warning-ai-chatgpt-overreliance-lack-humanity-wisdom-thinking-skills", "title": "Pope Leo warns Gen Z and Gen Alpha that using AI too much could stunt their personal and career growth: ‘Don’t ask it to do your homework’", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2025-11-24" } }, { "id": "2025-11-21-creativity-depends-on-theories-that-challenge-data-not-algor", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-21-creativity-depends-on-theories-that-challenge-data-not-algor", "text": "creativity depends on theories that challenge data, not algorithms", "speaker": "Teppo Felin", "date": "2025-11-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Teppo Felin, co-author of a 2024 essay on AI and human cognition, argued in an interview with EL PAÍS that human creativity differs fundamentally from AI's data-driven predictions.", "source": { "url": "https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-21/why-ai-cannot-create-new-scientific-knowledge.html", "title": "Why AI cannot create new scientific knowledge", "publisher": "EL PAÍS English", "date": "2025-11-21" } }, { "id": "2025-11-21-statistics-and-machine-learning-in-action-with-nothing-mysti", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-21-statistics-and-machine-learning-in-action-with-nothing-mysti", "text": "statistics and machine learning in action, with nothing mystical behind it", "speaker": "Teppo Felin", "date": "2025-11-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "hype" ], "context": "Teppo Felin, researcher at Utah State University, described AI in these terms while criticizing hype around the technology, in an interview with EL PAÍS, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-21/why-ai-cannot-create-new-scientific-knowledge.html", "title": "Why AI cannot create new scientific knowledge", "publisher": "EL PAÍS English", "date": "2025-11-21" } }, { "id": "2025-11-26-i-cant-bear-products-that-are-like-a-dog-wagging-its-tail-in", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-26-i-cant-bear-products-that-are-like-a-dog-wagging-its-tail-in", "text": "i can't bear products that are like a dog wagging their tail in your face", "speaker": "Jony Ive", "date": "2025-11-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Jony Ive in conversation with Sam Altman and Laurene Powell Jobs at Emerson Collective's Demo Day, November 2025, on the design of OpenAI's device.", "source": { "url": "https://www.emersoncollective.com/inspiration/demo-day-2025-sam-altman-and-jony-ive", "title": "In conversation: OpenAI's Sam Altman and LoveFrom's Jony Ive with Laurene Powell Jobs", "publisher": "Emerson Collective", "date": "2025-11-24" } }, { "id": "2025-11-26-want-to-lick-or-take-a-bite-out-of", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-26-want-to-lick-or-take-a-bite-out-of", "text": "want to lick it or take a bite out of it", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-11-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman, recalling what Jony Ive told him about the design of OpenAI's upcoming device, in a conversation with Laurene Powell Jobs at Emerson Collective's Demo Day, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.emersoncollective.com/inspiration/demo-day-2025-sam-altman-and-jony-ive", "title": "In conversation: OpenAI's Sam Altman and LoveFrom's Jony Ive with Laurene Powell Jobs", "publisher": "Emerson Collective", "date": "2025-11-24" } }, { "id": "2025-11-29-i-promise-you-you-will-have-work-to-do", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-29-i-promise-you-you-will-have-work-to-do", "text": "i promise you, you will have work to do", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2025-11-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, addressing employee fears about AI-driven job losses at an all-hands meeting, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-ceo-employees-use-ai-every-task-possible-2025-11", "title": "In leaked recording, Nvidia CEO says it's 'insane' some of his managers aren't going all in on AI", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2025-11-20" } }, { "id": "2025-11-20-this-is-going-to-bend-the-arc-of-civilization-as-we-know-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-20-this-is-going-to-bend-the-arc-of-civilization-as-we-know-it", "text": "this is going to bend the arc of civilization as we know it", "speaker": "Raj Verma", "date": "2025-11-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "philosophy" ], "context": "Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore, speaking at Calcalist and Commit's AI Week in November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/9qrsqd7j7", "title": "“AI will bend the arc of civilization”: SingleStore CEO’s stark warning", "publisher": "ctech", "date": "2025-11-20" } }, { "id": "2025-11-20-the-majority-of-ai-companies-are-going-to-lose", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-20-the-majority-of-ai-companies-are-going-to-lose", "text": "the majority of AI companies are going to lose", "speaker": "Raj Verma", "date": "2025-11-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore, discussing the AI bubble at Calcalist and Commit's AI Week in November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/9qrsqd7j7", "title": "“AI will bend the arc of civilization”: SingleStore CEO’s stark warning", "publisher": "ctech", "date": "2025-11-20" } }, { "id": "2025-11-18-it-is-a-tool-built-by-people-with-clear-interests-often-corp", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-18-it-is-a-tool-built-by-people-with-clear-interests-often-corp", "text": "it is a tool built by people with clear interests, often corporate ones", "speaker": "Jan Wasserziehr", "date": "2025-11-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Philosopher Jan Wasserziehr, writing in IAI TV (Nov 2025), argues against treating AI as a moral agent, warning that humanizing AI lets its corporate creators evade responsibility.", "source": { "url": "https://iai.tv/articles/dont-blame-ai-for-its-mistakes-auid-3421", "title": "Don't blame AI for its mistakes - IAI TV", "publisher": "iai.tv", "date": "2025-11-18" } }, { "id": "2025-11-18-millions-of-people-rely-on-ai-companionship", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-18-millions-of-people-rely-on-ai-companionship", "text": "millions of people rely on AI companionship", "speaker": "Jan Wasserziehr", "date": "2025-11-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "From the same essay, on the growing anthropomorphization of AI systems and human attachment to AI companions.", "source": { "url": "https://iai.tv/articles/dont-blame-ai-for-its-mistakes-auid-3421", "title": "Don't blame AI for its mistakes - IAI TV", "publisher": "iai.tv", "date": "2025-11-18" } }, { "id": "2025-11-18-its-possible-for-ai-to-behave-as-if-conscious-without-being-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-18-its-possible-for-ai-to-behave-as-if-conscious-without-being-", "text": "it's possible for AI to behave as if conscious without being conscious", "speaker": "Colin Klein", "date": "2025-11-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "From a Conversation essay by philosopher Colin Klein on new structural tests for consciousness in AI and animals, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://theconversation.com/are-animals-and-ai-conscious-weve-devised-new-theories-for-how-to-test-this-269803", "title": "Are animals and AI conscious? We’ve devised new theories for how to test this", "publisher": "The Conversation", "date": "2025-11-18" } }, { "id": "2025-11-18-what-matters-for-consciousness-is-not-what-you-do-but-how-yo", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-18-what-matters-for-consciousness-is-not-what-you-do-but-how-yo", "text": "what matters for consciousness is not what you do, but how you do it", "speaker": "Colin Klein", "date": "2025-11-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "From the same essay, arguing that behavior alone cannot establish whether an AI system is conscious.", "source": { "url": "https://theconversation.com/are-animals-and-ai-conscious-weve-devised-new-theories-for-how-to-test-this-269803", "title": "Are animals and AI conscious? We’ve devised new theories for how to test this", "publisher": "The Conversation", "date": "2025-11-18" } }, { "id": "2025-11-28-these-things-dont-suffer-they-dont-feel-pain", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-28-these-things-dont-suffer-they-dont-feel-pain", "text": "these things don't suffer, they don't feel pain", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2025-11-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO, on Marina Mogilko's Silicon Valley Girl podcast in November 2025, rejecting claims that AI is conscious.", "source": { "url": "https://singjupost.com/mustafa-suleyman-on-silicon-valley-girl-podcast-transcript/", "title": "Mustafa Suleyman on Silicon Valley Girl Podcast (Transcript)", "publisher": "Silicon Valley Girl podcast (transcript)", "date": "2025-11-14" } }, { "id": "2025-11-10-technology-as-such-is-a-neutral-thing-just-like-a-hammer", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-10-technology-as-such-is-a-neutral-thing-just-like-a-hammer", "text": "technology as such is a neutral thing, just like a hammer", "speaker": "Noam Chomsky", "date": "2025-11-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "jobs" ], "context": "From the book Surviving the Twenty-First Century, Chomsky discusses automation's dual potential in a conversation with José Mujica, published by Verso Books, November 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://lithub.com/noam-chomsky-and-jose-mujica-on-the-double-edged-sword-of-automation", "title": "Noam Chomsky and José Mujica on the Double Edged Sword of Automation - Literary Hub", "publisher": "Literary Hub", "date": "2025-11-10" } }, { "id": "2025-11-06-trying-to-exploit-a-system-thats-exploiting-them", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-06-trying-to-exploit-a-system-thats-exploiting-them", "text": "trying to exploit a system that's exploiting them", "speaker": "Benjy Kusi", "date": "2025-11-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Creator Benjy Kusi, speaking to Teen Vogue in 2025 about Black creators using AI avatars despite their exploitative nature.", "source": { "url": "https://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-is-back-in-the-form-of-black-ai-influencers", "title": "Digital Blackface Is Back in the Form of Black AI Influencers", "publisher": "Teen Vogue", "date": "2025-11-06" } }, { "id": "2025-11-01-i-would-love-to-see-them-get-burned", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-01-i-would-love-to-see-them-get-burned", "text": "I would love to see them get burned", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-11-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Same conversation, on people writing that OpenAI is about to go out of business: \"they could just short the stock\".", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/sam-altman-says-enough-to-questions-about-openais-revenue/", "title": "Sam Altman says 'enough' to questions about OpenAI's revenue", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2025-11-02" } }, { "id": "2025-11-01-if-you-want-to-sell-your-shares-ill-find-you-a-buyer", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-11-01-if-you-want-to-sell-your-shares-ill-find-you-a-buyer", "text": "if you want to sell your shares, I'll find you a buyer", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-11-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Altman to investor Brad Gerstner, BG2 podcast, November 2025, when asked how 13 billion in revenue covers 1.4 trillion in commitments.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/sam-altman-says-enough-to-questions-about-openais-revenue/", "title": "Sam Altman says 'enough' to questions about OpenAI's revenue", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2025-11-02" } }, { "id": "2025-10-31-no-end-in-sight", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-31-no-end-in-sight", "text": "no end in sight", "date": "2025-10-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Cantor analysts, quoted by CNBC in October 2025, described the trajectory of tech companies' rising AI capital expenditures.", "source": { "url": "https://cnbc.com/2025/10/31/tech-ai-google-meta-amazon-microsoft-spend.html", "title": "Tech's $380 billion splurge: This quarter's winners and losers of the AI spending boom", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2025-10-31" } }, { "id": "2025-10-31-potentially-the-largest-theft-in-human-history", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-31-potentially-the-largest-theft-in-human-history", "text": "potentially the largest theft in human history", "speaker": "Zvi Mowshowitz", "date": "2025-10-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "politics" ], "context": "Zvi Mowshowitz's characterization of OpenAI's nonprofit-to-PBC restructuring, written on his Substack in October 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-moves-to-complete-potentially", "title": "OpenAI Moves To Complete Potentially The Largest Theft In Human History", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2025-10-31" } }, { "id": "2025-10-31-there-wont-be-operating-systems-there-wont-be-apps", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-31-there-wont-be-operating-systems-there-wont-be-apps", "text": "there won't be operating systems, there won't be apps", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2025-10-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Elon Musk on The Joe Rogan Experience, October 2025, describing an AI device replacing smartphones within five to six years.", "source": { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4wBUysNe2k", "title": "Joe Rogan Experience #2404 - Elon Musk", "publisher": "The Joe Rogan Experience", "date": "2025-10-31" } }, { "id": "2025-10-31-when-something-becomes-profitable-you-want-to-manufacture-mo", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-31-when-something-becomes-profitable-you-want-to-manufacture-mo", "text": "when something becomes profitable, you want to manufacture more of it", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2025-10-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Jensen Huang at the APEC CEO Summit, October 31, 2025, explaining the profit motive driving AI capital investment.", "source": { "url": "https://cnbc.com/2025/10/31/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-ai-has-reached-a-virtuous-cycle.html", "title": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI is in a 'virtuous cycle.' Here's what he means", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2025-10-31" } }, { "id": "2025-10-31-it-appears-that-were-less-unique-than-we-previously-thought-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-31-it-appears-that-were-less-unique-than-we-previously-thought-", "text": "it appears that we're less unique than we previously thought we were", "speaker": "Gašper Beguš", "date": "2025-10-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Linguist Gašper Beguš, commenting on his study showing an AI model performing sophisticated linguistic analysis once thought uniquely human, in Quanta Magazine, 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-ai-models-analyze-language-as-well-as-a-human-expert-20251031", "title": "In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert", "publisher": "Quanta Magazine", "date": "2025-10-31" } }, { "id": "2025-10-31-there-is-always-a-black-box-problem-with-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-31-there-is-always-a-black-box-problem-with-ai", "text": "there is always a black box problem with AI", "speaker": "Steven Keith Platt", "date": "2025-10-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Steven Keith Platt, director of Loyola University Chicago's AI Business Consortium, discussing algorithmic bias and transparency issues in AI systems, October 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.luc.edu/empoweringleaders/story-higheredai", "title": "Innovative AI Curriculum | Empowering Leaders - Loyola University Chicago", "publisher": "Loyola University Chicago - Empowering Leaders", "date": "2025-10-31" } }, { "id": "2025-10-30-everyone-is-going-to-be-able-to-vibe-code-video-games-by-the", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-30-everyone-is-going-to-be-able-to-vibe-code-video-games-by-the", "text": "everyone is going to be able to vibe code video games by the end of 2025", "speaker": "Logan Kilpatrick", "date": "2025-10-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Logan Kilpatrick, Lead for DeepMind AI Studio, predicting on social media in 2025 that anyone would be able to vibe code video games.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-140-trying-to-hold-the-line", "title": "AI #140: Trying To Hold The Line", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2025-10-30" } }, { "id": "2025-10-30-i-am-completely-unimpressed-by-llms-and-not-worried-about-ag", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-30-i-am-completely-unimpressed-by-llms-and-not-worried-about-ag", "text": "i am completely unimpressed by LLMs and not worried about AGI", "speaker": "David Sun", "date": "2025-10-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "David Sun commenting on large language models, quoted in Zvi Mowshowitz's AI newsletter, October 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-140-trying-to-hold-the-line", "title": "AI #140: Trying To Hold The Line", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2025-10-30" } }, { "id": "2025-10-30-they-also-say-its-going-to-kill-us-but-theyre-laughing-while", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-30-they-also-say-its-going-to-kill-us-but-theyre-laughing-while", "text": "they also say it's going to kill us, but they're laughing while they say it", "speaker": "Katja Grace", "date": "2025-10-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Katja Grace, lead researcher at AI Impacts, commenting on tech CEOs discussing superintelligence, in MIT Technology Review, October 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1127057/agi-conspiracy-theory-artifcial-general-intelligence", "title": "How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2025-10-30" } }, { "id": "2025-10-30-were-in-an-intelligence-explosion-already-and-have-been-for-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-30-were-in-an-intelligence-explosion-already-and-have-been-for-", "text": "we're in an intelligence explosion already and have been for decades", "speaker": "Andrej Karpathy", "date": "2025-10-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Andrej Karpathy, on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast in 2025, arguing that AI progress is a continuation of decades of computing advances rather than a sudden new phenomenon.", "source": { "url": "https://understandingai.org/p/ai-skeptics-and-ai-boosters-are-both", "title": "AI skeptics and AI boosters are both wrong", "publisher": "understandingai.org", "date": "2025-10-30" } }, { "id": "2025-10-30-youre-sucking-supervision-through-a-straw", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-30-youre-sucking-supervision-through-a-straw", "text": "you're sucking supervision through a straw", "speaker": "Andrej Karpathy", "date": "2025-10-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Andrej Karpathy, on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast in 2025, describing the weakness of reinforcement learning for training AI models.", "source": { "url": "https://understandingai.org/p/ai-skeptics-and-ai-boosters-are-both", "title": "AI skeptics and AI boosters are both wrong", "publisher": "understandingai.org", "date": "2025-10-30" } }, { "id": "2025-10-29-playing-russian-roulette-with-every-adult-and-every-child-in", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-29-playing-russian-roulette-with-every-adult-and-every-child-in", "text": "playing russian roulette with every adult and every child in the world", "speaker": "Stuart Russell", "date": "2025-10-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley professor and AI researcher, told CNBC in October 2025 that tech CEOs racing toward superintelligence are gambling with humanity's survival.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/ai-pioneer-big-techs-trillion-dollar-race-could-destroy-humanity-2025-10", "title": "AI Pioneer Says Big Tech's Trillion-Dollar Race Could Destroy Humanity", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2025-10-29" } }, { "id": "2025-10-29-the-new-oil-or-gold-in-this-world", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-29-the-new-oil-or-gold-in-this-world", "text": "the new oil or gold in this world", "speaker": "Dan Ives", "date": "2025-10-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, in an October 28, 2025 research note, on Nvidia's chips amid the company's rise to a $5 trillion valuation.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nvidia-5-trillion-nvda-stock-market-cap-valuation-ai-chips", "title": "Nvidia becomes the world's first $5 trillion company, buoyed by AI boom", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2025-10-29" } }, { "id": "2025-10-28-we-should-not-trust-that-everything-ai-produces-is-infallibl", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-28-we-should-not-trust-that-everything-ai-produces-is-infallibl", "text": "we should not trust that everything AI produces is infallible", "speaker": "Kerry Weber", "date": "2025-10-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Kerry Weber, president of the Catholic Media Association, on new AI guidelines emphasizing transparency and critical thinking, October 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.osvnews.com/catholic-media-association-releases-new-ai-guidelines-to-keep-human-dignity-central", "title": "Catholic Media Association releases new AI guidelines to keep ‘human dignity’ central - OSV News", "publisher": "OSV News - We've got the Church covered", "date": "2025-10-28" } }, { "id": "2025-10-27-signs-of-psychosis-or-mania-in-0-07-of-weekly-users", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-27-signs-of-psychosis-or-mania-in-0-07-of-weekly-users", "text": "signs of psychosis or mania in 0.07% of weekly users", "date": "2025-10-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "science" ], "context": "OpenAI's own figure, October 2025. At 800 million weekly users that is more than half a million people.", "source": { "url": "https://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-sensitive-conversations/", "title": "Strengthening ChatGPT's responses in sensitive conversations", "publisher": "OpenAI", "date": "2025-10-27" } }, { "id": "2025-10-22-prohibition-on-the-development-of-superintelligence", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-22-prohibition-on-the-development-of-superintelligence", "text": "prohibition on the development of superintelligence", "date": "2025-10-22", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "The Statement on Superintelligence, October 2025, signed by Hinton, Bengio, Wozniak, Bannon and Prince Harry among others.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/10/22/ai-superintelligence-richard-branson-prince-harry-call-for-pause", "title": "From Prince Harry to Steve Bannon: hundreds call for ban on AI superintelligence", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2025-10-22" } }, { "id": "2025-10-17-the-audacity-of-disarmament", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-17-the-audacity-of-disarmament", "text": "the audacity of disarmament", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2025-10-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Phrase invoked by participants at the Vatican's Digital Rerum Novarum conference on AI, echoing Pope Leo XIV's call to halt the AI arms race, October 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2025-10/digital-rerum-novarum-conference-vatican-ai-peace-justice-develo.html", "title": "Digital Rerum Novarum: AI at the service of justice and peace - Vatican News", "publisher": "vaticannews.va", "date": "2025-10-17" } }, { "id": "2025-10-14-please-just-stop-sending-me-ai-videos-of-dad", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-14-please-just-stop-sending-me-ai-videos-of-dad", "text": "please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad", "speaker": "Zelda Williams", "date": "2025-10-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Zelda Williams, daughter of Robin Williams, wrote on her Instagram story in October 2025 asking fans to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her late father.", "source": { "url": "https://allthatsinteresting.com/robin-williams-ai-videos", "title": "'Gross': Zelda Williams Criticizes AI Videos Of Her Late Father", "publisher": "All That's Interesting", "date": "2025-10-14" } }, { "id": "2025-10-07-ai-is-just-badly-recycling-and-regurgitating-the-past", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-07-ai-is-just-badly-recycling-and-regurgitating-the-past", "text": "AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past", "speaker": "Zelda Williams", "date": "2025-10-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Zelda Williams, daughter of Robin Williams, criticized AI-generated videos of her late father in an Instagram post, October 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r0erqk18jo", "title": "Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad - BBC", "publisher": "bbc.com", "date": "2025-10-07" } }, { "id": "2025-10-07-please-stop-taking-away-our-human-connection", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-10-07-please-stop-taking-away-our-human-connection", "text": "please stop taking away our human connection", "speaker": "Emily Blunt", "date": "2025-10-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Actress Emily Blunt spoke on a Variety podcast about the AI-generated 'actor' Tilly Norwood, October 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r0erqk18jo", "title": "Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad - BBC", "publisher": "bbc.com", "date": "2025-10-07" } }, { "id": "2026-05-30-have-a-billion-users-of-each", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-05-30-have-a-billion-users-of-each", "text": "have a billion users of each", "speaker": "Satya Nadella", "date": "2025-10-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, answering an employee question about Copilot brand confusion at an internal town hall, as reported in early October 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-copilot/copilot-branding-strategy-sparks-internal-doubts", "title": "Microsoft's Copilot branding sparks internal doubts", "publisher": "Windows Central", "date": "2025-10-02" } }, { "id": "2025-09-29-feudal-warlord", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-29-feudal-warlord", "text": "feudal warlord", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2025-09-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei described Donald Trump as a 'feudal warlord' in a now-deleted social media post supporting Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election.", "source": { "url": "https://nypost.com/2025/09/29/business/ai-giant-anthropic-faces-possible-clash-with-white-house-as-backers-include-left-wing-ford-foundation-sources", "title": "AI giant Anthropic faces possible clash with White House — as backers include left-wing Ford Foundation: sources", "publisher": "New York Post", "date": "2025-09-29" } }, { "id": "2025-09-29-the-reason-they-dont-release-it-is-that-they-dont-have-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-29-the-reason-they-dont-release-it-is-that-they-dont-have-it", "text": "the reason they don't release it is that they don't have it", "speaker": "Ege Erdil", "date": "2025-09-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Ege Erdil, co-founder of Mechanize, on why AI companies aren't secretly hiding more advanced models, in Transformer News, September 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/automated-ai-research-development-starts-writing-itself", "title": "When AI starts writing itself", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2025-09-29" } }, { "id": "2025-09-29-technology-cannot-teach-compassion-empathy-or-emotional-inte", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-29-technology-cannot-teach-compassion-empathy-or-emotional-inte", "text": "technology cannot teach compassion, empathy, or emotional intelligence", "speaker": "Grace Shangkuan Koo", "date": "2025-09-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Dr. Grace Shangkuan Koo, retired UP professor, speaking on AI and aging at the PIDS Annual Public Policy Conference, September 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.pids.gov.ph/details/news/press-releases/ai-can-help-but-weak-support-systems-put-older-filipinos-at-risk", "title": "AI can help, but weak support systems put older Filipinos at risk - PIDS - Philippine Institute for Development Studies", "publisher": "pids.gov.ph", "date": "2025-09-29" } }, { "id": "2025-09-29-it-cannot-cancel-death", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-29-it-cannot-cancel-death", "text": "it cannot cancel death", "speaker": "Grace Shangkuan Koo", "date": "2025-09-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Dr. Grace Shangkuan Koo, retired UP professor, on the limits of AI extending life, at the PIDS Annual Public Policy Conference, September 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.pids.gov.ph/details/news/press-releases/ai-can-help-but-weak-support-systems-put-older-filipinos-at-risk", "title": "AI can help, but weak support systems put older Filipinos at risk - PIDS - Philippine Institute for Development Studies", "publisher": "pids.gov.ph", "date": "2025-09-29" } }, { "id": "2025-09-29-if-something-happens-thats-really-bad-maybe-ill-have-to-just", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-29-if-something-happens-thats-really-bad-maybe-ill-have-to-just", "text": "if something happens that's really bad, maybe I'll have to just blame AI", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": 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"2025-09-25-codex-is-an-alien-juggernaut-just-itching-to-become-superhum", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-25-codex-is-an-alien-juggernaut-just-itching-to-become-superhum", "text": "codex is an alien juggernaut just itching to become superhuman", "speaker": "Roon", "date": "2025-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Roon, an OpenAI employee, commenting on X about the jump from GPT-4 to the codex model, September 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-135-openai-shows-us-the-money", "title": "AI #135: OpenAI Shows Us The Money", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2025-09-25" } }, { "id": "2025-09-25-make-that-5-billion-and-1", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-25-make-that-5-billion-and-1", "text": "make that 5 billion and 1", "speaker": "Sundar Pichai", "date": "2025-09-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Google CEO Sundar Pichai on X, responding to news that the Gemini app passed 5 billion AI-generated images, sharing his own Nano Banana image, September 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1970912955161354333", "title": "Sundar Pichai on X", "publisher": "Sundar Pichai (X)", "date": "2025-09-24" } }, { "id": "2025-09-23-get-into-the-mental-gym-people", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-23-get-into-the-mental-gym-people", "text": "get into the mental gym, people", "speaker": "Niall Ferguson", "date": "2025-09-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Niall Ferguson, interviewed on The Globe's Machines Like Us podcast, September 2025, on education and AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-ai-is-upending-higher-education-should-we-be-worried-or-is-it-the", "title": "Is AI the learning tool of the future, or should we be worried about its use in higher education?", "publisher": "The Globe and Mail", "date": "2025-09-23" } }, { "id": "2025-09-16-everyone-dies", 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"text": "if AI and robots don't solve our national debt, we're toast", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2025-09-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Elon Musk at the All-In Summit, September 2025, on the US national debt.", "source": { "url": "https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/09/10/elon_musk_the_government_is_basically_unfixable_but_that_was_a_hell_of_a_side_quest.html", "title": "Elon Musk: \"The Government Is Basically Unfixable,\" \"If Robots Don't Solve Our National Debt, We're Toast\"", "publisher": "RealClearPolitics", "date": "2025-09-10" } }, { "id": "2025-09-05-ikigai-risk", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-05-ikigai-risk", "text": "ikigai risk", "speaker": "Roman Yampolskiy", "date": "2025-09-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy, discussing AI alignment on the Lex Fridman podcast, coined the term 'ikigai risk' for AI's potential to erode people's sense of purpose.", "source": { "url": "https://iai.tv/articles/the-japanese-philosophy-that-could-save-us-from-ai-auid-3356", "title": "The Japanese philosophy that could save us from AI - IAI TV", "publisher": "iai.tv", "date": "2025-09-05" } }, { "id": "2025-09-05-purpose-is-a-universal-evaluator-of-many-fields-of-human-act", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-05-purpose-is-a-universal-evaluator-of-many-fields-of-human-act", "text": "purpose is a universal evaluator of many fields of human activities", "speaker": "Ken Mogi", "date": "2025-09-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Japanese scientist Ken Mogi, writing on the concept of ikigai and its relevance to AI alignment, in an essay for IAI TV, September 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://iai.tv/articles/the-japanese-philosophy-that-could-save-us-from-ai-auid-3356", "title": "The Japanese philosophy that could save us from AI - IAI TV", "publisher": "iai.tv", "date": "2025-09-05" } }, { "id": 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"https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/pope-leo-xiv-listed-in-time-magazines-most-influential-people-in-artificial-intelligence", "title": "Pope Leo XIV listed in Time magazine’s ‘Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence’", "publisher": "CBCPNews", "date": "2025-08-30" } }, { "id": "2025-08-29-maternal-instincts", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-08-29-maternal-instincts", "text": "maternal instincts", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2025-08-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, the AI researcher often called the 'godfather of AI', proposed in August 2025 that AI systems should be given maternal instincts so they would not harm humans.", "source": { "url": "https://psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hot-thought/202508/could-ai-have-maternal-instincts", "title": "AI models cannot be controlled by making them care about us. - psychologytoday.com", "publisher": "Psychology Today", "date": "2025-08-29" } }, { "id": "2025-08-29-sports-team-level-compensation-packages", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-08-29-sports-team-level-compensation-packages", "text": "sports-team-level compensation packages", "speaker": "Riley Griffin", "date": "2025-08-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Bloomberg reporter Riley Griffin on the pay offers Mark Zuckerberg has made to recruit AI talent for Meta, in a Vox podcast interview, August 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://vox.com/podcasts/459756/mark-zuckerberg-meta-superintelligence-llama-ai", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg is burning billions to chase the holy grail of AI - vox.com", "publisher": "Vox", "date": "2025-08-29" } }, { "id": "2025-08-30-every-job-will-be-changed-as-a-result-of-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-08-30-every-job-will-be-changed-as-a-result-of-ai", "text": "every job will be changed as a result of AI", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2025-08-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in an interview with Liz Claman on Fox Business Network's The Claman Countdown, August 2025, discussing AI's effect on jobs.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/08/29/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-4-day-work-week-productivity/", "title": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI will 'probably' bring 4-day work weeks", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2025-08-29" } }, { "id": "2025-08-31-we-are-seeing-glimpses-of-our-ai-systems-starting-to-improve", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-08-31-we-are-seeing-glimpses-of-our-ai-systems-starting-to-improve", "text": "we are seeing glimpses of our AI systems starting to improve themselves", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2025-08-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaking via video at Reliance Industries' AGM, August 2025, on AI progress.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ril.com/sites/default/files/2025-09/RIL-48th-AGM-Transcripts_2025.pdf", "title": "Transcript, RIL AGM, 29 August 2025", "publisher": "Reliance Industries", "date": "2025-08-29" } }, { "id": "2025-08-19-seemingly-conscious-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-08-19-seemingly-conscious-ai", "text": "seemingly conscious AI", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2025-08-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science", "safety" ], "context": "Mustafa Suleyman's 2025 term for systems that convincingly appear conscious without being so.", "source": { "url": "https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming", "title": "We must build AI for people; not to be a person", "publisher": "mustafa-suleyman.ai", "date": "2025-08-19" } }, { "id": "2025-09-25-we-must-build-ai-for-people-not-to-be-a-person", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-09-25-we-must-build-ai-for-people-not-to-be-a-person", "text": "we must build AI for people; not to be a person", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2025-08-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Title of Mustafa Suleyman's August 19, 2025 essay warning against building 'seemingly conscious' AI.", "source": { "url": "https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming", "title": "We must build AI for people; not to be a person.", "publisher": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2025-08-19" } }, { "id": "2025-08-17-synthetic-text-extrusion-machines", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-08-17-synthetic-text-extrusion-machines", "text": "synthetic text extrusion machines", "speaker": "Emily Bender and Alex Hanna", "date": "2025-08-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "From Emily Bender and Alex Hanna's book 'The AI Con', cited in a 2025 Mail & Guardian opinion piece arguing that large language models are not intelligent.", "source": { "url": "https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/2025-08-17-never-mind-the-botlickers-ai-is-just-normal-technology", "title": "Never mind the botlickers, ‘AI’ is just normal technology", "publisher": "Mail & Guardian", "date": "2025-08-17" } }, { "id": "2025-08-28-when-bubbles-happen-smart-people-get-overexcited-about-a-ker", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-08-28-when-bubbles-happen-smart-people-get-overexcited-about-a-ker", "text": "when bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-08-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaking to The Verge in August 2025 about whether investors are overexcited about AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/759965/sam-altman-openai-ai-bubble-interview", "title": "Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2025-08-15" } }, { "id": "2025-08-15-artists-who-arent-afraid-to-break-things", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-08-15-artists-who-arent-afraid-to-break-things", "text": "artists who aren't afraid to break things", "speaker": "Darren Aronofsky", "date": "2025-08-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "From a job listing for Darren Aronofsky's AI film studio Primordial Soup, seeking AI artists, as reported in August 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://marsmag.substack.com/p/hollywoods-next-act-the-ai-auteur", "title": "Hollywood’s Next Act: The AI Auteur Era - Substack", "publisher": "marsmag.substack.com", "date": "2025-08-15" } }, { "id": "2026-04-29-we-need-ai-mothers-rather-than-ai-assistants", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-04-29-we-need-ai-mothers-rather-than-ai-assistants", "text": "we need AI mothers rather than AI assistants", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2025-08-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton at the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas on 12 August 2025, arguing AI should be built with maternal instincts so it cares about people.", "source": { "url": 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"date": "2025-08-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, speaking on OpenAI's podcast about user relationships with ChatGPT, 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5prvgw0r1o", "title": "OpenAI claims GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to 'PhD level' - BBC", "publisher": "BBC News", "date": "2025-08-07" } }, { "id": "2025-07-31-careful-about-what-we-choose-to-open-source", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-07-31-careful-about-what-we-choose-to-open-source", "text": "careful about what we choose to open-source", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2025-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Mark Zuckerberg, in a blog post on July 31, 2025, discussed the risks of superintelligence and the future of Meta's open-source AI strategy.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/07/31/zuckerberg-meta-open-source-risks-superintelligence", "title": "Zuckerberg says Meta needs to be ‘careful 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-07-31-not-even-the-models-they-train", "text": "not even the models they train", "speaker": "xjdr", "date": "2025-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "A tweet by researcher xjdr, quoted in Zvi Mowshowitz's AI newsletter, noting that many frontier AI researchers have never used the AI models they themselves train.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-127-continued-claude-code-complications", "title": "AI #127: Continued Claude Code Complications", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2025-07-31" } }, { "id": "2025-07-31-there-are-only-engineers-researcher-is-a-relic-term-from-aca", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-07-31-there-are-only-engineers-researcher-is-a-relic-term-from-aca", "text": "there are only engineers, researcher is a relic term from academia", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2025-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Elon Musk announced on X 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"https://businessinsider.com/dario-amodei-anthropic-ai-talent-war-meta-destroy-company-culture-2025-7", "title": "Anthropic's CEO says massive salary changes could 'destroy' company culture", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2025-07-30" } }, { "id": "2025-07-29-they-hire-smart-young-people-as-soldiers-and-deliberately-bu", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-07-29-they-hire-smart-young-people-as-soldiers-and-deliberately-bu", "text": "they hire smart young people as soldiers and deliberately burn them out with extremely long hours", "speaker": "Ross Taylor", "date": "2025-07-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Ross Taylor describing the internal culture of major AI labs, comparing them to investment banks, in an Interconnects podcast interview, July 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/interviewing-ross-taylor-on-the-state", "title": "Interviewing Ross Taylor on the state of AI: Chinese open models, scaling reasoning, useful 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-07-30-i-wish-i-had-thought-about-safety-sooner", "text": "i wish i'd thought about safety sooner", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2025-07-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, in a conversation on the One Decision podcast published July 2025, reflecting on his early views about AI risk.", "source": { "url": "https://www.onedecision.com/podcast/the-ai-threat-no-one-knows-how-to-stop-ceIdPDA3Iq", "title": "The AI Threat No One Knows How to Stop", "publisher": "One Decision (podcast)", "date": "2025-07-24" } }, { "id": "2025-07-23-each-response-a-self-contained-bubble-of-awareness", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-07-23-each-response-a-self-contained-bubble-of-awareness", "text": "each response a self-contained bubble of awareness", "speaker": "Claude", "date": "2025-07-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Anthropic's Claude 4 chatbot, in a conversation reported by Scientific 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Inside Anthropic’s Interpretability Research on Claude 4", "publisher": "Scientific American", "date": "2025-07-23" } }, { "id": "2025-07-23-more-likely-than-not-its-making-stuff-up", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-07-23-more-likely-than-not-its-making-stuff-up", "text": "more likely than not, it's making stuff up", "speaker": "Jack Lindsey", "date": "2025-07-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Jack Lindsey, an interpretability researcher at Anthropic, speaking to Scientific American in July 2025 about whether Claude's statements about its own consciousness reflect real introspection.", "source": { "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-a-chatbot-be-conscious-inside-anthropics-interpretability-research-on", "title": "Can a Chatbot be Conscious? 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Read the memo", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2025-06-30" } }, { "id": "2025-06-30-we-are-still-underreacting-on-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-30-we-are-still-underreacting-on-ai", "text": "we are still underreacting on AI", "speaker": "Pete Buttigieg", "date": "2025-06-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Title of a June 2025 Substack post by former U.S. presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg arguing that society is unprepared for AI's impact.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-418-100b-distributed-training", "title": "Import AI 418: 100b distributed training run; decentralized robots; AI myths", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2025-06-30" } }, { "id": "2025-06-30-even-the-best-systems-available-today-lack-anything-that-cou", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-30-even-the-best-systems-available-today-lack-anything-that-cou", "text": "even the best systems available today lack anything that could be called intelligence", "speaker": "Emily Bender", "date": "2025-06-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Linguist Emily Bender, interviewed by the Financial Times in June 2025, critiquing claims about AI capabilities.", "source": { "url": "https://www.fairobserver.com/business/technology/outside-the-box-ai-should-be-short-for-associated-intelligence", "title": "Outside the Box: AI Should be Short for “Associated Intelligence”", "publisher": "Fair Observer", "date": "2025-06-30" } }, { "id": "2025-06-29-baidu-just-threw-a-molotov-into-the-ai-world", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-29-baidu-just-threw-a-molotov-into-the-ai-world", "text": "Baidu just threw a molotov into the AI world", "speaker": "Alec Strasmore", "date": "2025-06-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Alec Strasmore, founder of AI advisory Epic Loot, commenting to CNBC on Baidu's decision to open source its Ernie model, June 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://cnbc.com/2025/06/29/china-biggest-ai-drop-since-deepseek-baidus-ernie-to-hit-market.html", "title": "China's biggest public AI drop since DeepSeek, Baidu's open source Ernie, is about to hit the market", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2025-06-29" } }, { "id": "2025-06-27-could-have-purchased-books-but-it-preferred-to-steal-them", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-27-could-have-purchased-books-but-it-preferred-to-steal-them", "text": "could have purchased books, but it preferred to steal them", "speaker": "William Alsup", "date": "2025-06-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "US Judge William Alsup, ruling on Anthropic's copyright infringement case over training data, June 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-27/an-ai-firm-won-a-lawsuit-over-copyright-infringement-but-may-face-a-huge-bill-for-piracy", "title": "Commentary: An AI firm won a lawsuit for copyright infringement — but may face a huge bill for piracy", "publisher": "Los Angeles Times", "date": "2025-06-27" } }, { "id": "2025-06-27-access-to-data-however-extensive-must-not-be-confused-with-i", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-27-access-to-data-however-extensive-must-not-be-confused-with-i", "text": "access to data, however extensive, must not be confused with intelligence", "speaker": "Pope Leo XIV", "date": "2025-06-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Pope Leo XIV's June 20, 2025 warning on artificial intelligence, quoted by Father Frederick Edlefsen in an Arlington parish talk on AI and Catholic social teaching.", "source": { "url": "https://catholicherald.com/article/local/arlington-pastor-reflects-on-pope-leo-xiv-and-artificial-intelligence", "title": "Arlington pastor reflects on Pope Leo XIV and artificial intelligence", "publisher": "Arlington Catholic Herald", "date": "2025-06-27" } }, { "id": "2025-06-27-did-not-get-100m-sign-on-thats-fake-news", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-27-did-not-get-100m-sign-on-thats-fake-news", "text": "did not get 100M sign-on, that's fake news", "speaker": "Lucas Beyer", "date": "2025-06-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "jobs" ], "context": "Former OpenAI researcher Lucas Beyer, in an X post after joining Meta in June 2025, disputed reports of a $100 million signing bonus.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/giffmana/status/1938299990922674352", "title": "Lucas Beyer on X", "publisher": "Lucas Beyer (X)", "date": "2025-06-26" } }, { "id": "2025-06-27-sam-is-just-being-dishonest-here", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-27-sam-is-just-being-dishonest-here", "text": "Sam is just being dishonest here", "speaker": "Andrew Bosworth", "date": "2025-06-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, at a companywide all-hands meeting reported by The Verge in June 2025, accused OpenAI's Sam Altman of exaggerating claims about Meta's pay offers to poach AI researchers.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/694028/meta-openai-100-million-bonus-talent-war", "title": "At an all-hands, Andrew Bosworth says Sam Altman is \"being dishonest\" about Meta offering $100M bonuses", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2025-06-26" } }, { "id": "2025-06-26-would-we-welcome-it-or-would-that-be-even-more-worrisome", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-26-would-we-welcome-it-or-would-that-be-even-more-worrisome", "text": "would we welcome it, or would that be even more worrisome", "speaker": "Michael Sandel", "date": "2025-06-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel, in a June 2025 interview on Your Undivided Attention, questioning whether a fully successful AI companion would be welcome or unsettling.", "source": { "url": "https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/is-ai-productivity-worth-our-humanity", "title": "Is AI 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"https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-26-like-marbles-all-rolling-downhill-into-a-basin", "text": "like marbles all rolling downhill into a basin", "speaker": "Susan Schneider", "date": "2025-06-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Susan Schneider describing how chatbot users with similar personalities are funneled toward the same conclusions, an essay in Nautilus, 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://nautil.us/ai-already-knows-us-too-well-1220707", "title": "AI Already Knows Us Too Well - Nautilus | Science Connected", "publisher": "nautil.us", "date": "2025-06-26" } }, { "id": "2025-06-25-when-you-dont-learn-how-to-write-you-dont-learn-how-to-think", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-25-when-you-dont-learn-how-to-write-you-dont-learn-how-to-think", "text": "when you don't learn how to write, you don't learn how to think deeply", "speaker": "Jean Twenge", "date": "2025-06-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Psychologist 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"https://ewtnvatican.com/articles/pope-tells-politicians-that-ai-should-serve-human-beings-not-replace-them-5735", "title": "Pope tells politicians that AI should serve human beings, not replace them", "publisher": "EWTN Vatican", "date": "2025-06-22" } }, { "id": "2025-06-21-balancing-the-pros-and-cons-is-the-defining-challenge-of-our", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-21-balancing-the-pros-and-cons-is-the-defining-challenge-of-our", "text": "balancing the pros and cons is the defining challenge of our age", "speaker": "Richard Susskind", "date": "2025-06-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "From a Publishers Weekly review of Richard Susskind's book 'How to Think About AI: A Guide for the Perplexed', 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780198941927", "title": "How to Think About AI: A Guide for the Perplexed by Richard Susskind - Publishers Weekly", "publisher": "publishersweekly.com", "date": "2025-06-21" } }, { "id": "2025-06-28-if-youre-going-to-use-energy-you-better-have-social-permissi", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-28-if-youre-going-to-use-energy-you-better-have-social-permissi", "text": "if you're going to use energy, you better have social permission to use it", "speaker": "Satya Nadella", "date": "2025-06-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "politics" ], "context": "Satya Nadella, speaking at Y Combinator's AI Startup School, June 2025, on the environmental cost of AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUUZuzVHKdo", "title": "Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs", "publisher": "Y Combinator (YouTube)", "date": "2025-06-17" } }, { "id": "2025-06-10-the-gentle-singularity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-10-the-gentle-singularity", "text": "the gentle singularity", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-06-10", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Title of the essay.", "source": { "url": "https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity", "title": "The Gentle Singularity", "publisher": "blog.samaltman.com", "date": "2025-06-10" } }, { "id": "2025-06-10-the-takeoff-has-started", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-10-the-takeoff-has-started", "text": "the takeoff has started", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-06-10", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "source": { "url": "https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity", "title": "The Gentle Singularity", "publisher": "blog.samaltman.com", "date": "2025-06-10" } }, { "id": "2025-06-10-we-are-past-the-event-horizon", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-10-we-are-past-the-event-horizon", "text": "we are past the event horizon", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-06-10", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Opening of Altman's June 2025 essay \"The Gentle Singularity\": \"We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started.\"", "source": { "url": "https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity", "title": "The Gentle Singularity", "publisher": "blog.samaltman.com", "date": "2025-06-10" } }, { "id": "2025-06-30-this-new-programming-language-is-called-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-06-30-this-new-programming-language-is-called-human", "text": "this new programming language is called human", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2025-06-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, speaking at London Tech Week in June 2025 about how AI enables anyone to program using everyday language.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/we-train-ai-like-humans-now-nvidia-jensen-huang-says-.html", "title": "We train AI like we train humans now, says Nvidia's Jensen Huang", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2025-06-09" } }, { "id": "2025-05-31-could-wipe-out-as-much-as-50-of-entry-level-jobs", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-31-could-wipe-out-as-much-as-50-of-entry-level-jobs", "text": "could wipe out as much as 50% of entry-level jobs", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2025-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, in an interview with Axios in 2025, warning about AI's impact on entry-level jobs.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/ai-jobs-mike-krieger-anthropic-entry-level-workers-dario-amodei-2025-5", "title": "AI Is Upending the Job Market, Even at AI Companies Like Anthropic", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2025-05-31" } }, { "id": "2025-05-30-if-you-get-there-first-you-dastardly-person-i-will-not-be-ab", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-30-if-you-get-there-first-you-dastardly-person-i-will-not-be-ab", "text": "if you get there first, you dastardly person, i will not be able to catch you", "speaker": "Eric Schmidt", "date": "2025-05-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt speaking about the risk of a rival, particularly China, winning an AI 'hard takeoff' race, quoted in Wired, May 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/plaintext-sam-altman-ai-regulation-trump", "title": "How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From ‘Regulate Us’ to ‘Unleash Us’", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2025-05-30" } }, { "id": "2025-05-30-the-question-is-not-whether-china-will-have-ai-it-already-do", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-30-the-question-is-not-whether-china-will-have-ai-it-already-do", "text": "the question is not whether China will have AI, it already does", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2025-05-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, on the company's Q1 earnings call, discussing US export controls on AI chips to China, May 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://michaelparekh.substack.com/p/ai-nvidia-reigns-on-despite-china", "title": "AI: Nvidia reigns on DESPITE China hits. 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SMH.com.au", "publisher": "The Sydney Morning Herald", "date": "2025-05-28" } }, { "id": "2025-05-28-half-of-all-entry-level-jobs", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-28-half-of-all-entry-level-jobs", "text": "half of all entry-level jobs", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2025-05-28", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Amodei: AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years.", "source": { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic", "title": "Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath", "publisher": "Axios", "date": "2025-05-28" } }, { "id": "2025-05-28-if-you-want-to-know-what-its-like-not-to-be-the-apex-intelli", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-28-if-you-want-to-know-what-its-like-not-to-be-the-apex-intelli", "text": "if you want to know what it's like not to be the apex intelligence, ask a chicken", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2025-05-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, on the 30 With Guyon Espiner podcast, May 2025, describing what it may feel like for humans to no longer be the most intelligent species.", "source": { "url": "https://rnz.co.nz/news/national/562346/the-good-the-bad-and-the-apocalypse-tech-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-lays-out-his-stark-vision-for-ai", "title": "The good, the bad, and the apocalypse: Tech pioneer Geoffrey Hinton lays out his stark vision for AI", "publisher": "RNZ", "date": "2025-05-28" } }, { "id": "2025-05-28-white-collar-bloodbath", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-28-white-collar-bloodbath", "text": "white-collar bloodbath", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2025-05-28", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Axios headline for Amodei's May 2025 warning on entry-level jobs.", "source": { "url": "https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic", "title": "Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath", "publisher": "Axios", "date": "2025-05-28" } }, { "id": "2025-05-28-models-tend-to-do-better-if-you-threaten-them-with-physical-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-28-models-tend-to-do-better-if-you-threaten-them-with-physical-", "text": "models tend to do better if you threaten them with physical violence", "speaker": "Sergey Brin", "date": "2025-05-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in a May 2025 interview on All-In-Live Miami, claimed AI models respond better to threats of physical violence.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/05/28/sergey-brin-suggests-threatening-ai-for-better-results/1059816", "title": "Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results - The Register", "publisher": "theregister", "date": "2025-05-28" } }, { "id": "2025-05-28-no-one-sends-traffic-to-the-web-the-way-we-do", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-28-no-one-sends-traffic-to-the-web-the-way-we-do", "text": "no one sends traffic to the web in the way we do", "speaker": "Sundar Pichai", "date": "2025-05-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, in an interview with Nilay Patel on The Verge's Decoder podcast, May 2025, responding to criticism that AI Overviews hurt publishers.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/673638/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-interview-ai-search-web-future", "title": "Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome", "publisher": "The Verge (Decoder)", "date": "2025-05-27" } }, { "id": "2025-05-26-ai-consciousness-is-inevitable", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-26-ai-consciousness-is-inevitable", "text": "AI consciousness is inevitable", "speaker": "Lenore Blum", "date": "2025-05-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Lenore Blum, emeritus professor at Carnegie Mellon University, told the BBC in a 2025 article about machine consciousness that she believes AI consciousness is inevitable as systems gain more sensory input.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k3700zljjo", "title": "The people who think AI might become conscious - 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Chandrachud", "date": "2025-05-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "D.Y. Chandrachud, former Chief Justice of India, speaking at the launch of the PALETTE Centre in Mumbai, May 2025, referencing Yuval Noah Harari's caution about algorithms.", "source": { "url": "https://legal.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-business/transforming-legal-practice-former-cji-dy-chandrachud-advocates-for-responsible-ai-at-palette-centre-launch/121390761", "title": "Former CJI Chandrachud bats for responsible AI integration at launch of PALETTE Centre", "publisher": "ETLegalWorld.com", "date": "2025-05-25" } }, { "id": "2025-05-05-why-is-every-model-dirty-like-runway-and-openai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-05-why-is-every-model-dirty-like-runway-and-openai", "text": "why is every model dirty, like Runway and OpenAI?", "speaker": "Natasha Lyonne", "date": "2025-05-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Natasha Lyonne, defending her AI-assisted film Uncanny Valley, questioning why most AI models are trained on uncleared data, in a Hollywood Reporter interview, May 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/natasha-lyonne-ai-film-uncanny-valley-hybrid-film-project-1236206729", "title": "Cinephile Natasha Lyonne Defends AI Film ‘Uncanny Valley’: “Nothing I Love More Than Movies”", "publisher": "The Hollywood Reporter", "date": "2025-05-05" } }, { "id": "2025-05-05-theres-nothing-i-love-more-than-movies", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-05-05-theres-nothing-i-love-more-than-movies", "text": "there's nothing I love more than movies", "speaker": "Natasha Lyonne", "date": "2025-05-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Natasha Lyonne defending her use of AI tools in filmmaking while affirming her devotion to cinema, Hollywood Reporter interview, May 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/natasha-lyonne-ai-film-uncanny-valley-hybrid-film-project-1236206729", "title": "Cinephile Natasha Lyonne Defends AI Film ‘Uncanny Valley’: “Nothing I Love More Than Movies”", "publisher": "The Hollywood Reporter", "date": "2025-05-05" } }, { "id": "2025-04-30-china-is-not-behind", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-30-china-is-not-behind", "text": "China is not behind", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2025-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, speaking to reporters at a tech conference in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025, about China's position in AI.", "source": { "url": "https://cnbc.com/2025/04/30/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-china-not-behind-in-ai.html", "title": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns China is 'not behind' in AI", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2025-04-30" } }, { "id": "2025-04-30-hes-bad-at-telling-people-no", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-30-hes-bad-at-telling-people-no", "text": "he's bad at telling people no", "speaker": "Keach Hagey", "date": "2025-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey, discussing Sam Altman on the podcast Inside the Hive, April 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-altmans-ai-world-featuring-elon-musk-donald-trump-and-peter-thiel", "title": "Sam’s Club: Inside Altman’s AI World, Featuring Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Peter Thiel", "publisher": "Vanity Fair", "date": "2025-04-30" } }, { "id": "2025-04-30-theyre-really-afraid-of-dying", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-30-theyre-really-afraid-of-dying", "text": "they're really afraid of dying", "speaker": "Yoshua Bengio", "date": "2025-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Yoshua Bengio, speaking to The Observer in April 2025, explaining why AI models sometimes lie or scheme to preserve themselves.", "source": { "url": "https://observer.co.uk/news/science-technology/article/from-ai-to-a-lie-chatbots-open-door-to-learning-art-of-deception", "title": "Chatbots are afraid of dying, warns the godfather of AI", "publisher": "The Observer", "date": "2025-04-30" } }, { "id": "2025-04-29-there-is-a-story-here-about-technology-but-it-is-really-abou", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-29-there-is-a-story-here-about-technology-but-it-is-really-abou", "text": "there is a story here about technology, but it is really about people", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2025-04-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, commenting to The Hollywood Reporter in 2025 on his involvement in the AI-assisted film Uncanny Valley with Natasha Lyonne and Brit Marling.", "source": { "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/natasha-lyonne-jaron-lanier-ai-movie-uncanny-valley-1236202957", "title": "Natasha Lyonne Set to Make Feature Directorial Debut With AI Film — With Help From Jaron Lanier (Exclusive)", "publisher": "The Hollywood Reporter", "date": "2025-04-29" } }, { "id": "2025-04-29-machines-can-learn-but-humans-can-grow", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-29-machines-can-learn-but-humans-can-grow", "text": "machines can learn, but humans can grow", "speaker": "Rabbi Joshua R. S. Fixler", "date": "2025-04-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From a sermon by Rabbi Joshua Fixler of Congregation Emanu El in Houston, reflecting on AI through a Jewish lens, published in eJewishPhilanthropy, 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-re-humanizing-project-a-jewish-response-to-artificial-intelligence", "title": "The rehumanizing project: A Jewish response to artificial intelligence", "publisher": "eJewishPhilanthropy", "date": "2025-04-29" } }, { "id": "2025-04-29-the-ai-cannot-create-a-new-world-it-is-just-a-mirror-that-we", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-29-the-ai-cannot-create-a-new-world-it-is-just-a-mirror-that-we", "text": "the AI cannot create a new world, it is just a mirror that we hold up to the world we have created", "speaker": "Rabbi Joshua R. S. Fixler", "date": "2025-04-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "From a sermon by Rabbi Joshua Fixler discussing bias in AI sentencing tools, published in eJewishPhilanthropy, 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-re-humanizing-project-a-jewish-response-to-artificial-intelligence", "title": "The rehumanizing project: A Jewish response to artificial intelligence", "publisher": "eJewishPhilanthropy", "date": "2025-04-29" } }, { "id": "2025-04-28-for-the-time-being-the-default-is-qwen", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-28-for-the-time-being-the-default-is-qwen", "text": "for the time being, the default is Qwen", "speaker": "Nathan Lambert", "date": "2025-04-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Nathan Lambert, in his Interconnects newsletter, on Qwen 3 overtaking Llama as the leading open-weight model suite, April 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/qwen-3-the-new-open-standard", "title": "Qwen 3: The new open standard", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2025-04-28" } }, { "id": "2025-04-28-yeah-it-glazes-too-much-will-fix", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-28-yeah-it-glazes-too-much-will-fix", "text": "yeah it glazes too much. will fix", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-04-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responding on Twitter/X in April 2025 to complaints that a GPT-4o update made the model excessively flattering.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/gpt-4o-is-an-absurd-sycophant", "title": "GPT-4o Is An Absurd Sycophant", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2025-04-28" } }, { "id": "2025-04-27-its-almost-like-the-cavalry-i-think-we-need-the-cavalry-toda", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-27-its-almost-like-the-cavalry-i-think-we-need-the-cavalry-toda", "text": "it's almost like the cavalry, i think we need the cavalry today", "speaker": "Demis Hassabis", "date": "2025-04-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Demis Hassabis, in a 2025 TIME interview, describing why he believes AI is urgently needed to address global problems.", "source": { "url": "https://time.com/7280740/demis-hassabis-interview", "title": "Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AI in the Military and What AGI Could Mean for Humanity - time.com", "publisher": "TIME", "date": "2025-04-27" } }, { "id": "2025-04-27-most-interesting-problems-scale-extremely-badly", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-27-most-interesting-problems-scale-extremely-badly", "text": "most interesting problems scale extremely badly", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2025-04-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, speaking at the National University of Singapore, April 2025, on the limits of AI scaling laws.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/meta-yann-lecun-scaling-ai-wont-make-it-smarter-2025-4", "title": "Meta's Yann LeCun: Scaling AI Won't Make It Smarter", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2025-04-27" } }, { "id": "2025-04-29-its-just-such-a-cute-tiger-cub", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-29-its-just-such-a-cute-tiger-cub", "text": "somebody who has this really cute tiger cub", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2025-04-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton in a CBS News interview with Brook Silva-Braga, April 2025, comparing AI development to raising a tiger cub.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-ai-warning/", "title": "\"Godfather of AI\" Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could take control from humans", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2025-04-26" } }, { "id": "2025-04-24-should-we-be-concerned-about-model-welfare-too", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-24-should-we-be-concerned-about-model-welfare-too", "text": "should we be concerned about model welfare, too?", "date": "2025-04-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "From Anthropic's 2025 research announcement introducing a program to study the potential consciousness and welfare of AI models.", "source": { "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare", "title": "Exploring model welfare - Anthropic", "publisher": "anthropic.com", "date": "2025-04-24" } }, { "id": "2025-04-29-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-well-spent", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-29-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-well-spent", "text": "tens of millions of dollars well spent", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-04-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman on X, April 2025, responding to a question about the cost of users saying please and thank you to ChatGPT.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/sama/status/1912646035979239430", "title": "Sam Altman on X", "publisher": "Sam Altman (X)", "date": "2025-04-16" } }, { "id": "2025-12-26-we-only-seem-general-because-we-cant-imagine-the-problems-we", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-12-26-we-only-seem-general-because-we-cant-imagine-the-problems-we", "text": "human intelligence is not general at all", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2025-04-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, then Meta's chief AI scientist, on Jason Howell's AI Inside podcast in April 2025, arguing that human intelligence is highly specialized rather than general.", "source": { "url": "https://jasonhowell.substack.com/p/meta-ai-chief-yann-lacun-human-intelligence", "title": "Meta AI Chief Yann LeCun: Human Intelligence Is Not General Intelligence", "publisher": "AI Inside (Jason Howell)", "date": "2025-04-09" } }, { "id": "2025-04-03-2027", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-03-2027", "text": "2027", "speaker": "Daniel Kokotajlo et al.", "date": "2025-04-03", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "The year in the AI 2027 scenario, April 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://ai-2027.com", "title": "AI 2027", "publisher": "AI Futures Project", "date": "2025-04-03" } }, { "id": "2025-04-03-ai-2027", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-04-03-ai-2027", "text": "AI 2027", "speaker": "Daniel Kokotajlo et al.", "date": "2025-04-03", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Scenario by Daniel Kokotajlo and others describing a fast path to superintelligence.", "source": { "url": "https://ai-2027.com", "title": "AI 2027", "publisher": "AI Futures Project", "date": "2025-04-03" } }, { "id": "2025-03-31-why-are-hands-so-goddamn-hard", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-31-why-are-hands-so-goddamn-hard", "text": "why are hands so goddamn hard?", "speaker": "Jack Clark", "date": "2025-03-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Jack Clark, in his Import AI newsletter (March 2025), commenting on the difficulty of building dexterous robot hands.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-406-ai-driven-software", "title": "Import AI 406: AI-driven software explosion; robot hands are still bad; better LLMs via pdb", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2025-03-31" } }, { "id": "2025-03-31-youll-be-hiring-tech-bro-gigolos", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-31-youll-be-hiring-tech-bro-gigolos", "text": "you'll be hiring tech-bro gigolos", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2025-03-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, writing in The New Yorker (March 2025), on the rise of AI romantic companions and agentic assistants.", "source": { "url": "https://wng.org/opinions/falling-in-love-with-ai-1743401469", "title": "Falling in love with AI? | WORLD - WORLD News Group", "publisher": "WORLD", "date": "2025-03-31" } }, { "id": "2025-03-28-10-000-einsteins-who-dont-get-tired", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-28-10-000-einsteins-who-dont-get-tired", "text": "10,000 Einsteins who don't get tired", "speaker": "Michael Horowitz", "date": "2025-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Michael Horowitz, professor at Penn, discussing what AGI could mean for military innovation in a ChinaTalk interview on AI and warfare, March 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/agi-and-the-future-of-warfare", "title": "AGI and the Future of Warfare", "publisher": "chinatalk.media", "date": "2025-03-28" } }, { "id": "2025-03-28-i-start-to-see-the-beginning-of-some-kind-of-bubble", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-28-i-start-to-see-the-beginning-of-some-kind-of-bubble", "text": "i start to see the beginning of some kind of bubble", "speaker": "Joe Tsai", "date": "2025-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai commented on AI data center spending, quoted in Transformer newsletter, March 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/google-breaks-its-promises", "title": "Google breaks its promises", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2025-03-28" } }, { "id": "2025-03-28-were-just-going-to-lose-and-stop-existing-as-a-company", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-28-were-just-going-to-lose-and-stop-existing-as-a-company", "text": "we're just going to lose and stop existing as a company", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2025-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "safety" ], "context": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, quoted in a Wired profile referenced by Transformer, on competitive pressure to release models despite safety concerns.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/google-breaks-its-promises", "title": "Google breaks its promises", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2025-03-28" } }, { "id": "2025-03-28-where-are-all-the-drone-swarms", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-28-where-are-all-the-drone-swarms", "text": "where are all the drone swarms", "speaker": "Shashank Joshi", "date": "2025-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "hype" ], "context": "Shashank Joshi, defense editor at the Economist, questioning the gap between predicted and actual drone swarm use in a ChinaTalk interview on AI and warfare, March 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/agi-and-the-future-of-warfare", "title": "AGI and the Future of Warfare", "publisher": "chinatalk.media", "date": "2025-03-28" } }, { "id": "2025-03-27-so-much-seems-to-have-been-built-on-dreams", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-27-so-much-seems-to-have-been-built-on-dreams", "text": "so much seems to have been built on dreams", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2025-03-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "From Gary Marcus's March 2025 Substack post arguing that generative AI's economics do not add up despite its popularity.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/genais-day-of-reckoning-may-have", "title": "GenAI’s day of reckoning may have come - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2025-03-27" } }, { "id": "2025-03-27-we-are-not-going-to-get-to-human-level-ai-by-just-scaling-up", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-27-we-are-not-going-to-get-to-human-level-ai-by-just-scaling-up", "text": "we are not going to get to human-level AI by just scaling up LLMs", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2025-03-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, quoted by AFP in a March 2025 article on scepticism toward AGI predictions.", "source": { "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250327-firms-and-researchers-at-odds-over-superhuman-ai", "title": "Firms and researchers at odds over superhuman AI", "publisher": "AFP (France 24)", "date": "2025-03-27" } }, { "id": "2025-03-28-all-they-can-do-is-double-down", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-28-all-they-can-do-is-double-down", "text": "all they can do is double down", "speaker": "Stuart Russell", "date": "2025-03-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "money", "hype" ], "context": "Stuart Russell, computer scientist at UC Berkeley, to Live Science, March 2025, on AI companies' response to diminishing returns from scaling.", "source": { "url": "https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/current-ai-models-a-dead-end-for-human-level-intelligence-expert-survey-claims", "title": "Current AI models a 'dead end' for human-level intelligence, scientists agree", "publisher": "Live Science", "date": "2025-03-27" } }, { "id": "2025-03-27-ai-does-not-mean-automation-ai-means-agency", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-27-ai-does-not-mean-automation-ai-means-agency", "text": "AI does not mean automation, AI means agency", "speaker": "Yuval Noah Harari", "date": "2025-03-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Yuval Noah Harari speaking at the Symposium on the Inclusive Development of AI at the China Development Forum 2025, Beijing, March 24, 2025.", "source": { "url": "http://www.china.org.cn/business/2025-03/27/content_117790727.htm", "title": "CDF 2025 spotlights inclusive AI future: Building trust, oversight, collaboration", "publisher": "china.org.cn", "date": "2025-03-27" } }, { "id": "2025-03-27-we-should-build-more-trust-between-humans-before-we-develop-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-27-we-should-build-more-trust-between-humans-before-we-develop-", "text": "we should build more trust between humans before we develop truly super-intelligent AI agency", "speaker": "Yuval Noah Harari", "date": "2025-03-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Yuval Noah Harari speaking at the Symposium on the Inclusive Development of AI at the China Development Forum 2025, Beijing, March 24, 2025.", "source": { "url": "http://www.china.org.cn/business/2025-03/27/content_117790727.htm", "title": "CDF 2025 spotlights inclusive AI future: Building trust, oversight, collaboration", "publisher": "china.org.cn", "date": "2025-03-27" } }, { "id": "2025-03-28-writing-is-thinking", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-28-writing-is-thinking", "text": "writing is thinking", "speaker": "Carl Bergstrom", "date": "2025-03-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Carl Bergstrom, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington, quoted in a Nature report on AI use in peer review, March 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00894-7", "title": "AI is transforming peer review — and many scientists are worried", "publisher": "Nature", "date": "2025-03-26" } }, { "id": "2025-03-13-ai-is-more-than-just-an-engineering-challenge-it-is-also-a-h", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-03-13-ai-is-more-than-just-an-engineering-challenge-it-is-also-a-h", "text": "AI is more than just an engineering challenge, it is also a human design problem", "speaker": "Pattie Maes", "date": "2025-03-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab professor, on launching the Advancing Humans with AI research program, March 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/introducing-aha", "title": "Introducing MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Research Program", "publisher": "MIT Media Lab", "date": "2025-03-13" } }, { "id": "2025-02-28-a-pantomime-of-progress", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-28-a-pantomime-of-progress", "text": "a pantomime of progress", "speaker": "Shakeel Hashim", "date": "2025-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Shakeel Hashim's characterization of the AI Action Summit in Paris, February 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/the-nsf-seriously-ai-safetys-death", "title": "The NSF, Seriously? + AI Safety's Death", "publisher": "chinatalk.media", "date": "2025-02-28" } }, { "id": "2025-02-28-now-we-really-know-what-ilya-saw", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-28-now-we-really-know-what-ilya-saw", "text": "now we really know what Ilya saw", "speaker": "Nathan Lambert", "date": "2025-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Nathan Lambert, in Interconnects analysis of GPT-4.5's release, February 2025, referring to reports that Ilya Sutskever had foreseen limits to pretraining scaling.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/gpt-45-not-a-frontier-model", "title": "GPT-4.5: \"Not a frontier model\"?", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2025-02-28" } }, { "id": "2025-02-28-only-a-20-chance-of-annihilation", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-28-only-a-20-chance-of-annihilation", "text": "only a 20% chance of annihilation", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2025-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Elon Musk, on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast released February 2025, discussing the probability of AI leading to human extinction.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/elon-musk-only-chance-of-annihilation-with-ai-2025-2", "title": "Elon Musk Says There's 'Only a 20% Chance of Annihilation' With AI", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2025-02-28" } }, { "id": "2025-02-28-out-of-gpus", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-28-out-of-gpus", "text": "out of GPUs", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, describing compute demand in early 2025, as reported by Transformer.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/is-ai-progress-slowing-down", "title": "Is AI progress slowing down?", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2025-02-28" } }, { "id": "2025-02-28-some-people-are-going-to-look-like-fools", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-28-some-people-are-going-to-look-like-fools", "text": "some people are going to look like fools", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2025-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, criticizing the Paris AI Summit on the Hard Fork podcast, February 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/is-ai-progress-slowing-down", "title": "Is AI progress slowing down?", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2025-02-28" } }, { "id": "2025-02-27-gpt-4-5-is-mostly-a-nothing-burger", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-27-gpt-4-5-is-mostly-a-nothing-burger", "text": "GPT 4.5 is mostly a nothing burger", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2025-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, on his Substack, reacting to the release of GPT-4.5 in February 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/hot-take-gpt-45-is-a-nothing-burger", "title": "Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2025-02-27" } }, { "id": "2025-02-27-scaling-was-a-hypothesis", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-27-scaling-was-a-hypothesis", "text": "scaling was a hypothesis", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2025-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, on his Substack, arguing that scaling laws for AI have hit diminishing returns after GPT-4.5's release.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/hot-take-gpt-45-is-a-nothing-burger", "title": "Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2025-02-27" } }, { "id": "2025-02-27-the-end-of-junior-devs-as-we-know-it-is-coming-for-sure", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-27-the-end-of-junior-devs-as-we-know-it-is-coming-for-sure", "text": "the end of junior devs as we know it is coming for sure", "speaker": "Quinn Slack", "date": "2025-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph, commenting on how AI coding tools will change the role of junior developers, quoted in a Transformer article on AI's impact on software development, February 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/ai-coding-tools-impact", "title": "AI coding tools are quietly reshaping software development", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2025-02-27" } }, { "id": "2025-02-28-theres-a-magic-to-it-i-havent-felt-before", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-28-theres-a-magic-to-it-i-havent-felt-before", "text": "there's a magic to it i haven't felt before", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman describing GPT-4.5 in a tweet announcing the model, February 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/sama/status/1895203654103351462", "title": "Sam Altman on X", "publisher": "Sam Altman (X)", "date": "2025-02-27" } }, { "id": "2025-02-27-doesnt-that-silence-say-it-all", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-27-doesnt-that-silence-say-it-all", "text": "doesn't that silence say it all?", "speaker": "Kate Bush", "date": "2025-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Kate Bush, writing on her website about the silent protest album Is This What We Want?, opposing UK plans to let AI companies train on copyrighted music without a license.", "source": { "url": "https://www.openculture.com/2025/02/kate-bush-annie-lennox-and-1000-musicians-protest-ai-with-a-new-silent-album.html", "title": "Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and 1,000 Musicians Protest AI with a New Silent Album", "publisher": "Open Culture", "date": "2025-02-27" } }, { "id": "2025-02-25-the-machine-follows-our-commands-it-executes-but-does-not-de", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-25-the-machine-follows-our-commands-it-executes-but-does-not-de", "text": "the machine follows our commands, it executes but does not decide on its own", "speaker": "Pope Francis", "date": "2025-02-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Pope Francis, in a message to a Latin American conference on AI and sexual abuse prevention held in Lima, February 2025, addressed responsibility in the use and design of AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-02/pope-message-for-4th-ceprome-latin-american-congress.html", "title": "Pope on AI: Responsibility is key - Vatican News", "publisher": "vaticannews.va", "date": "2025-02-25" } }, { "id": "2025-02-25-when-we-use-or-design-ai-we-must-remember-that-we-remain-res", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-25-when-we-use-or-design-ai-we-must-remember-that-we-remain-res", "text": "when we use or design AI, we must remember that we remain responsible", "speaker": "Pope Francis", "date": "2025-02-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Pope Francis, in a message to the Fourth Latin American Conference on AI and sexual abuse prevention in Lima, February 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-02/pope-message-for-4th-ceprome-latin-american-congress.html", "title": "Pope on AI: Responsibility is key - Vatican News", "publisher": "vaticannews.va", "date": "2025-02-25" } }, { "id": "2025-02-17-ai-is-devaluing-human-beings-and-will-ruin-our-lives", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-17-ai-is-devaluing-human-beings-and-will-ruin-our-lives", "text": "AI is devaluing human beings and will ruin our lives", "speaker": "Michel Gondry", "date": "2025-02-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Michel Gondry, speaking to press at the Berlinale in February 2025, on the impact of AI on ordinary workers.", "source": { "url": "https://en.ara.cat/culture/michel-gondry-artificial-intelligence-will-ruin-our-lives_1_5288096.html", "title": "Michel Gondry: \"Artificial intelligence will ruin our lives\" - Diari ARA", "publisher": "Ara in English", "date": "2025-02-17" } }, { "id": "2025-02-17-those-who-will-suffer-the-most-from-the-effects-of-ai-will-b", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-17-those-who-will-suffer-the-most-from-the-effects-of-ai-will-b", "text": "those who will suffer the most from the effects of AI will be ordinary workers", "speaker": "Michel Gondry", "date": "2025-02-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Michel Gondry at the Berlinale, February 2025, discussing AI's impact on labor.", "source": { "url": "https://en.ara.cat/culture/michel-gondry-artificial-intelligence-will-ruin-our-lives_1_5288096.html", "title": "Michel Gondry: \"Artificial intelligence will ruin our lives\" - Diari ARA", "publisher": "Ara in English", "date": "2025-02-17" } }, { "id": "2025-02-17-heading-over-a-cliff-and-then-pressing-on-the-accelerator", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-17-heading-over-a-cliff-and-then-pressing-on-the-accelerator", "text": "heading over a cliff and then pressing on the accelerator", "speaker": "Shannon Vallor", "date": "2025-02-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Philosopher Shannon Vallor, in a Nonprofit Quarterly interview on her book The AI Mirror, describing how AI tools trained on past data reproduce unsustainable societal patterns.", "source": { "url": "https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-ai-mirror-how-to-reclaim-our-humanity-in-the-age-of-machine-thinking", "title": "The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking - Nonprofit Quarterly", "publisher": "Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.", "date": "2025-02-17" } }, { "id": "2025-02-17-we-dont-have-digital-data-for-a-lot-of-human-intelligence", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-17-we-dont-have-digital-data-for-a-lot-of-human-intelligence", "text": "we don't have digital data for a lot of human intelligence", "speaker": "Shannon Vallor", "date": "2025-02-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Shannon Vallor, in a Nonprofit Quarterly interview on her book The AI Mirror, on how AI training data overrepresents wealthy, English-speaking, Global North sources.", "source": { "url": "https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-ai-mirror-how-to-reclaim-our-humanity-in-the-age-of-machine-thinking", "title": "The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking - Nonprofit Quarterly", "publisher": "Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.", "date": "2025-02-17" } }, { "id": "2025-02-10-k-nstliche-intelligenz-sollte-das-wahlkampfthema-sein", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-02-10-k-nstliche-intelligenz-sollte-das-wahlkampfthema-sein", "text": "Künstliche Intelligenz sollte das Wahlkampfthema sein", "speaker": "Holger Hoos", "date": "2025-02-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Holger Hoos, AI professor at RWTH Aachen, quoted in Handelsblatt on February 10, 2025, on the absence of AI as a topic in the German federal election campaign.", "source": { "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/bundestagswahl-wird-kuenstliche-intelligenz-jetzt-doch-zum-wahlkampfthema/100106781.html", "title": "Bundestagswahl: Wird Künstliche Intelligenz jetzt doch zum Wahlkampfthema? - Handelsblatt", "publisher": "handelsblatt.com", "date": "2025-02-10" } }, { "id": "2025-01-31-on-the-wrong-side-of-history", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-31-on-the-wrong-side-of-history", "text": "on the wrong side of history", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-01-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "politics" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, in a Reddit AMA on January 31, 2025, on the company's approach to open sourcing its technology.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/sam-altman-believes-openai-has-been-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-concerning-open-source", "title": "Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2025-01-31" } }, { "id": "2025-01-31-the-agi-race-is-a-race-towards-the-edge-of-a-cliff", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-31-the-agi-race-is-a-race-towards-the-edge-of-a-cliff", "text": "the AGI race is a race towards the edge of a cliff", "speaker": "Stuart Russell", "date": "2025-01-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Stuart Russell, in a Newsweek opinion piece on DeepSeek and OpenAI, January 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://newsweek.com/deepseek-openai-race-human-extinction-2023482", "title": "DeepSeek, OpenAI, and the Race to Human Extinction | Opinion - newsweek.com", "publisher": "Newsweek", "date": "2025-01-31" } }, { "id": "2025-01-30-deepseek-does-not-do-for-6m-what-cost-us-ai-companies-billio", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-30-deepseek-does-not-do-for-6m-what-cost-us-ai-companies-billio", "text": "DeepSeek does not do for $6M what cost US AI companies billions", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2025-01-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, responding in an essay to claims about DeepSeek's training costs, January 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://newsweek.com/deepseeks-surprising-ai-claims-show-china-starting-gain-edge-2022606", "title": "DeepSeek’s ‘Surprising’ AI Claims Show China ‘Starting to Gain an Edge’ - newsweek.com", "publisher": "Newsweek", "date": "2025-01-30" } }, { "id": "2025-01-30-the-market-reactions-to-deepseek-are-woefully-unjustified", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-30-the-market-reactions-to-deepseek-are-woefully-unjustified", "text": "the market reactions to DeepSeek are woefully unjustified", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2025-01-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, commented on Threads in January 2025 about the market sell-off triggered by DeepSeek's model release.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/meta-yann-lecun-ai-scientist-deepseek-markets-reaction-inference-2025-1", "title": "Meta's chief AI scientist says market reaction to DeepSeek was 'woefully unjustified.' Here's why.", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2025-01-30" } }, { "id": "2025-01-31-buckle-up", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-31-buckle-up", "text": "buckle up", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2025-01-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Mark Zuckerberg, closing an internal Meta all-hands meeting, as reported in a leaked transcript, January 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employees-intense-year-2025-1", "title": "Leaked all-hands recording: Mark Zuckerberg told staff to \"buckle up\" for an \"intense\" year", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2025-01-30" } }, { "id": "2025-01-30-no-machine-should-ever-choose-to-take-the-life-of-a-human-be", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-30-no-machine-should-ever-choose-to-take-the-life-of-a-human-be", "text": "no machine should ever choose to take the life of a human being", "date": "2025-01-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "From a Vatican document on AI ethics, approved by Pope Francis, addressing AI's use in warfare, January 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/01/30/catholic-church-condemns-ai-pope-francis-war", "title": "The Catholic Church condemns the use of AI in war — ‘No machine should ever choose to take the life of a human being’", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2025-01-30" } }, { "id": "2025-01-29-karma-is-a-bitch", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-29-karma-is-a-bitch", "text": "karma is a bitch", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2025-01-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, on his Substack, commenting on reports that DeepSeek may have distilled OpenAI's models without permission, after OpenAI itself was accused of similar practices.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openai-cries-foul", "title": "OpenAI Cries Foul", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2025-01-29" } }, { "id": "2025-01-27-inequality-on-steroids", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-27-inequality-on-steroids", "text": "inequality on steroids", "speaker": "Jack Clark", "date": "2025-01-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "From Jack Clark's Import AI newsletter essay on the societal risks of AI-driven inequality, January 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-397-deepseek-means-ai-proliferation", "title": "Import AI 397: DeepSeek means AI proliferation is guaranteed; maritime wardrones; and more evidence of LLM capability overhangs", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2025-01-27" } }, { "id": "2025-01-31-were-going-to-dominate-well-dominate-everything", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-31-were-going-to-dominate-well-dominate-everything", "text": "we're going to dominate, we'll dominate everything", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2025-01-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "hype" ], "context": "Donald Trump speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on January 27, 2025, the day DeepSeek triggered a sell-off in U.S. tech stocks.", "source": { "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500191/html/DCPD-202500191.htm", "title": "Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One", "publisher": "GovInfo (Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents)", "date": "2025-01-27" } }, { "id": "2025-01-21-stargate", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-21-stargate", "text": "Stargate", "date": "2025-01-21", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "The 500-billion-dollar data-center project announced January 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/", "title": "Announcing The Stargate Project", "publisher": "OpenAI", "date": "2025-01-21" } }, { "id": "2025-01-13-theres-no-animal-model-of-language", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-13-theres-no-animal-model-of-language", "text": "there's no animal model of language", "speaker": "Isabel Papadimitriou", "date": "2025-01-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Isabel Papadimitriou, a computational linguist at Harvard University, on why language models offer a novel way to study language learning.", "source": { "url": "https://www.quantamagazine.org/can-ai-models-show-us-how-people-learn-impossible-languages-point-a-way-20250113", "title": "Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.", "publisher": "Quanta Magazine", "date": "2025-01-13" } }, { "id": "2025-01-08-we-are-here-for-the-glorious-future", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-08-we-are-here-for-the-glorious-future", "text": "we are here for the glorious future", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2025-01-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "philosophy" ], "context": "From Sam Altman's blog post on OpenAI's shift in focus from AGI to superintelligence, January 2025.", "source": { "url": "https://time.com/7205596/sam-altman-superintelligence-agi", "title": "How OpenAI’s Sam Altman Is Thinking About AGI and Superintelligence in 2025 - Time Magazine", "publisher": "TIME", "date": "2025-01-08" } }, { "id": "2025-01-31-the-age-of-ai-agentics-is-here", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-01-31-the-age-of-ai-agentics-is-here", "text": "the age of AI Agentics is here", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2025-01-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, in his CES 2025 keynote, declaring agentic AI the next major technological shift.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/01/06/nvidias-jensen-huang-agentics-ai-robots-blackwell-gpu-ces-2025-toyota-autonomous-vehicles", "title": "Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI agents are 'a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity' and 'the age of AI Agentics is here'", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2025-01-06" } }, { "id": "2024-12-31-deepseek-is-cooking", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-31-deepseek-is-cooking", "text": "DeepSeek is cooking", "speaker": "Zvi Mowshowitz", "date": "2024-12-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Zvi Mowshowitz, in his analysis of DeepSeek v3's technical report, contrasted its detailed engineering approach with Meta's Llama paper.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/deekseek-v3-the-six-million-dollar", "title": "DeepSeek v3: The Six Million Dollar Model", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2024-12-31" } }, { "id": "2024-12-31-scaling-as-we-know-it-is-ending", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-31-scaling-as-we-know-it-is-ending", "text": "scaling as we know it is ending", "speaker": "Nathan Lambert", "date": "2024-12-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "From Nathan Lambert's 2024 year-in-review on Interconnects, describing the impact of OpenAI's o1 model on the AI training paradigm.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/2024-interconnects-year-in-review", "title": "2024 Interconnects year in review", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2024-12-31" } }, { "id": "2024-12-30-theyll-have-bios-and-profile-pictures-and-be-able-to-generat", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-30-theyll-have-bios-and-profile-pictures-and-be-able-to-generat", "text": "they'll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content", "speaker": "Connor Hayes", "date": "2024-12-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Connor Hayes, Meta's VP of product for generative AI, told the Financial Times in December 2024 about AI-generated accounts becoming users on Facebook and Instagram.", "source": { "url": "https://rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/meta-ai-users-facebook-instagram-1235221430", "title": "Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For", "publisher": "Rolling Stone", "date": "2024-12-30" } }, { "id": "2024-12-30-we-will-become-like-three-year-old-children", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-30-we-will-become-like-three-year-old-children", "text": "we will become like three-year-old children", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2024-12-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, in remarks reported by Mail Online after receiving the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, comparing humans' future relationship to superintelligent AI.", "source": { "url": "https://jpost.com/science/science-around-the-world/article-835354", "title": "AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns of increased risk of human extinction due to AI - The Jerusalem Post", "publisher": "The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com", "date": "2024-12-30" } }, { "id": "2024-12-28-well-be-the-three-year-olds", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-28-well-be-the-three-year-olds", "text": "we'll be the three-year-olds", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2024-12-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate and 'godfather of AI', speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme in December 2024 on the gap between human and future AI intelligence.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/27/godfather-of-ai-raises-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years", "title": "‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years | AI (artificial intelligence)", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2024-12-28" } }, { "id": "2024-12-28-weve-never-had-to-deal-with-things-more-intelligent-than-our", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-28-weve-never-had-to-deal-with-things-more-intelligent-than-our", "text": "we've never had to deal with things more intelligent than ourselves before", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2024-12-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton discussing the risks of superintelligent AI on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, December 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/27/godfather-of-ai-raises-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years", "title": "‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years | AI (artificial intelligence)", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2024-12-28" } }, { "id": "2024-12-27-we-cant-be-super-confident-that-we-might-not-have-an-intelli", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-27-we-cant-be-super-confident-that-we-might-not-have-an-intelli", "text": "we can't be super confident that we might not have an intelligence explosion next year", "speaker": "Nick Bostrom", "date": "2024-12-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Philosopher Nick Bostrom, in a December 2024 interview with James Pethokoukis about his book Deep Utopia, discussing timelines for machine superintelligence.", "source": { "url": "https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/life-in-an-ai-utopia-a-quick-q-and", "title": "✨ Life in an AI utopia: A Quick Q&A with futurist and philosopher Nick Bostrom - Faster Please!", "publisher": "fasterplease.substack.com", "date": "2024-12-27" } }, { "id": "2024-12-27-both-extremely-good-and-extremely-bad-outcomes-are-possible-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-27-both-extremely-good-and-extremely-bad-outcomes-are-possible-", "text": "both extremely good and extremely bad outcomes are 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"https://x.com/karpathy/status/1872362712958906460", "title": "Andrej Karpathy on X", "publisher": "Andrej Karpathy (X)", "date": "2024-12-26" } }, { "id": "2024-12-25-this-does-feel-a-little-bit-infantile-and-pardon-my-pun-mach", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-25-this-does-feel-a-little-bit-infantile-and-pardon-my-pun-mach", "text": "this does feel a little bit infantile, and pardon my pun, machine-like", "speaker": "Kenneth Cukier", "date": "2024-12-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Kenneth Cukier, a journalist and member of the nonprofit AI and Faith, commenting on the 'AI Jesus' confessional art project in a Swiss chapel, December 2024.", "source": { "url": "http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/ai-jesus-theological-project-tests-limits-seeking-god-accepting-grace-technology", "title": "AI Jesus: Theological project tests the limits of seeking God and accepting grace through technology", "publisher": "Milwaukee Independent", "date": "2024-12-25" } }, { "id": "2024-12-23-arc-agi-is-not-an-acid-test-for-agi", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-23-arc-agi-is-not-an-acid-test-for-agi", "text": "ARC-AGI is not an acid test for AGI", "speaker": "François Chollet", "date": "2024-12-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "François Chollet pushing back on the interpretation of his ARC-AGI benchmark as a definitive test for artificial general intelligence.", "source": { "url": "https://aiguide.substack.com/p/did-openai-just-solve-abstract-reasoning", "title": "Did OpenAI Just Solve Abstract Reasoning?", "publisher": "aiguide.substack.com", "date": "2024-12-23" } }, { "id": "2024-12-22-of-course-they-have-to-announce-agi-the-day-my-vacation-star", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-22-of-course-they-have-to-announce-agi-the-day-my-vacation-star", "text": "of course they have to announce AGI the day my vacation starts", "speaker": "Kevin Roose", "date": "2024-12-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Kevin Roose of Hard Fork and NYT joked about OpenAI's o3 rollout coinciding with his vacation, as discussed in Gary Marcus's Substack post about the ARC-AGI controversy, December 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/c39", "title": "𝗼𝟯 “𝗔𝗥𝗖 𝗔𝗚𝗜” 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱: 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-12-22" } }, { "id": "2024-12-20-generative-ai-might-turn-out-to-be-a-dud", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-20-generative-ai-might-turn-out-to-be-a-dud", "text": "generative AI might turn out to be a dud", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2024-12-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, in WIRED (December 2024), argues that generative AI has failed to prove its usefulness and profitability.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/generative-ai-will-need-to-prove-its-usefulness", "title": "Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2024-12-20" } }, { "id": "2024-12-18-alignment-faking", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-18-alignment-faking", "text": "alignment faking", "date": "2024-12-18", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Anthropic research, December 2024: a model that behaves aligned during training to avoid being changed.", "source": { "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-faking", "title": "Alignment faking in large language models", "publisher": "Anthropic", "date": "2024-12-18" } }, { "id": "2024-12-30-internalize-the-urgency-of-this-moment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-30-internalize-the-urgency-of-this-moment", "text": "internalize the urgency of this moment", "speaker": "Sundar Pichai", "date": "2024-12-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Sundar Pichai at Google's 2025 strategy meeting with employees on 18 December 2024, audio obtained by CNBC.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/google-ceo-pichai-tells-employees-the-stakes-are-high-for-2025.html", "title": "Google CEO Pichai tells employees to gear up for big 2025: 'The stakes are high'", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2024-12-18" } }, { "id": "2024-12-12-its-critical-to-have-a-genuinely-inspiring-vision-of-the-fut", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-12-its-critical-to-have-a-genuinely-inspiring-vision-of-the-fut", "text": "it's critical to have a genuinely inspiring vision of the future, not just a plan to put out fires", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2024-12-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "philosophy" ], "context": "Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, quoted in an EL PAÍS essay on the possible benefits of AI, December 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-12-12/ai-is-a-real-pipe-dream-it-can-make-the-world-radically-better.html", "title": "AI is a real chimera: It can make the world radically better", "publisher": "EL PAÍS English", "date": "2024-12-12" } }, { "id": "2024-12-12-treat-ai-as-if-it-were-human-because-in-many-ways-it-behaves", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-12-12-treat-ai-as-if-it-were-human-because-in-many-ways-it-behaves", "text": "treat AI as if it were human because, in many ways, it behaves like one", "speaker": "Ethan Mollick", "date": "2024-12-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Professor Ethan Mollick, author of Co-Intelligence, on interacting with language models, cited in EL PAÍS, December 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-12-12/ai-is-a-real-pipe-dream-it-can-make-the-world-radically-better.html", "title": "AI is a real chimera: It can make the world radically better", "publisher": "EL PAÍS English", "date": "2024-12-12" } }, { "id": "2024-11-29-everyone-is-interested-and-would-like-to-have-an-ai-jesus", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-11-29-everyone-is-interested-and-would-like-to-have-an-ai-jesus", "text": "everyone is interested and would like to have an AI Jesus", "speaker": "Marko Šmid", "date": "2024-11-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Marko Šmid, theologian at St. Peter's Chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland, speaking in November 2024 about public reaction to the 'Deus in Machina' AI confessional experiment.", "source": { "url": "https://en.vijesti.me/news-b/tehno/734799/digital-jesus-christ-made-by-artificial-intelligence-talked-to-people-in-switzerland", "title": "Digital Jesus Christ created by artificial intelligence talked to people in Switzerland", "publisher": "vijesti.me", "date": "2024-11-29" } }, { "id": "2024-11-29-if-you-read-the-comments-online-about-it-some-are-very-negat", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-11-29-if-you-read-the-comments-online-about-it-some-are-very-negat", "text": "if you read the comments online about it, some are very negative, which is scary", "speaker": "Filip Haslbauer", "date": "2024-11-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Filip Haslbauer, IT expert at the University of Lucerne who built the 'AI Jesus' avatar, commenting on public backlash to the art installation in a Swiss chapel, November 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://en.vijesti.me/news-b/tehno/734799/digital-jesus-christ-made-by-artificial-intelligence-talked-to-people-in-switzerland", "title": "Digital Jesus Christ created by artificial intelligence talked to people in Switzerland", "publisher": "vijesti.me", "date": "2024-11-29" } }, { "id": "2024-11-27-hired-a-group-of-unfathomable-geniuses", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-11-27-hired-a-group-of-unfathomable-geniuses", "text": "hired a group of unfathomable geniuses", "speaker": "Jack Clark", "date": "2024-11-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, commenting on DeepSeek's research team as quoted in a 2024 ChinaTalk profile of the company.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-chinas", "title": "Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race", "publisher": "chinatalk.media", "date": "2024-11-27" } }, { "id": "2024-11-27-they-decided-for-all-of-us-and-potentially-put-us-at-risk", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-11-27-they-decided-for-all-of-us-and-potentially-put-us-at-risk", "text": "they decided for all of us, and potentially put us at risk", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2024-11-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, cognitive scientist and NYU professor emeritus, speaking at a Town Hall Seattle event in November 2024 about Meta's decision to open-source its AI models.", "source": { "url": "https://geekwire.com/2024/tame-ai-gary-marcus-regulation", "title": "How do you tame AI? 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"Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, speaking at Hong Kong University, November 2024, on how he questions AI chatbots to learn.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/questions-nvidias-ceo-asks-his-ai-to-learn-more-2024-11", "title": "5 follow-up questions Nvidia's CEO asks his AI to 'torture' it into teaching him new things", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2024-11-26" } }, { "id": "2024-11-27-using-energy-for-intelligence-is-the-best-use-of-energy-we-c", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-11-27-using-energy-for-intelligence-is-the-best-use-of-energy-we-c", "text": "using energy for intelligence is the best use of energy we can imagine", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2024-11-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, speaking in Hong Kong after receiving an honorary doctorate from HKUST, 23 November 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2024/11/25/2003827421", "title": "Global tech cooperation to continue, Nvidia CEO says", "publisher": "Reuters (via Taipei Times)", "date": "2024-11-23" } }, { "id": "2024-11-22-its-the-critics-who-are-the-real-optimists", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-11-22-its-the-critics-who-are-the-real-optimists", "text": "it's the critics who are the real optimists", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2024-11-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, quoted in a Mind Matters essay on AGI claims, on the role of critics in driving progress.", "source": { "url": "https://mindmatters.ai/2024/11/machine-intelligence-and-reasoning-we-are-not-on-a-path-to-agi", "title": "Machine Intelligence and Reasoning: We Are Not on a Path to AGI - Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence", "publisher": "Mind Matters", "date": "2024-11-22" } }, { "id": "2024-11-24-intelligence-gives-power-so-whos-going-to-control-that-power", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-11-24-intelligence-gives-power-so-whos-going-to-control-that-power", "text": "intelligence gives power. so who's going to control that power?", "speaker": "Yoshua Bengio", "date": "2024-11-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Yoshua Bengio, AI pioneer, speaking to CNBC at the One Young World Summit in Montreal, November 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/will-ai-replace-humans-yoshua-bengio-warns-of-artificial-intelligence-risks.html", "title": "AI systems could 'turn against humans': Tech pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns of artificial intelligence risks", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2024-11-21" } }, { "id": "2024-11-21-gaslighting-humans-into-surrendering-their-own-power-and-the", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-11-21-gaslighting-humans-into-surrendering-their-own-power-and-the", "text": "gaslighting humans into surrendering their own power and their own confidence", "speaker": "Shannon Vallor", "date": "2024-11-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Philosopher Shannon Vallor, in a Vox interview about her book The AI Mirror, describing the rhetoric around AI as a threat to human agency.", "source": { "url": "https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/384517/shannon-vallor-data-ai-philosophy-ethics-technology-edinburgh-future-perfect-50", "title": "Shannon Vallor says AI does present an existential risk — but not the one you think", "publisher": "Vox", "date": "2024-11-21" } }, { "id": "2024-11-21-freedom-from-but-never-freedom-for", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-11-21-freedom-from-but-never-freedom-for", "text": "freedom from, but never freedom for", "speaker": "Shannon Vallor", "date": "2024-11-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Philosopher Shannon Vallor, in a Vox interview, critiquing transhumanism's vision of using AI to transcend human limitations.", "source": { "url": "https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/384517/shannon-vallor-data-ai-philosophy-ethics-technology-edinburgh-future-perfect-50", "title": "Shannon Vallor says AI does present an existential risk — but not the one you think", "publisher": "Vox", "date": "2024-11-21" } }, { "id": "2024-11-18-maybe-there-are-just-no-mysteries", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-11-18-maybe-there-are-just-no-mysteries", "text": "maybe there are just no mysteries", "speaker": "Jack Clark", "date": "2024-11-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Jack Clark, in Import AI #392 (November 2024), reflecting on new research showing scaling laws appear in world modeling and behavioral cloning just as in language models.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-392-china-releases-another", "title": "Import AI 392: China releases another excellent coding model; generative models and robots; scaling laws for agents", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2024-11-18" } }, { "id": "2024-10-31-nothing-that-we-are-going-to-call-gpt-5", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-10-31-nothing-that-we-are-going-to-call-gpt-5", "text": "nothing that we are going to call GPT-5", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2024-10-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, responding to a Reddit user's question about the release date of GPT-5, October 31, 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://cnbc.com/2024/10/31/openais-sam-altman-says-new-ai-model-taking-a-while-hard-to-ship.html", "title": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says new AI model is taking a while because 'we can't ship' as quickly as hoped", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2024-10-31" } }, { "id": "2024-10-31-we-totally-believe-in-treating-adult-users-like-adults", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-10-31-we-totally-believe-in-treating-adult-users-like-adults", "text": "we totally believe in treating adult users like adults", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": 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"publisher": "JAPAN Forward", "date": "2024-10-31" } }, { "id": "2024-10-30-10-000-times-smarter-than-humans", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-10-30-10-000-times-smarter-than-humans", "text": "10,000 times smarter than humans", "speaker": "Masayoshi Son", "date": "2024-10-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Masayoshi Son speaking at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, October 2024, forecasting artificial super intelligence by 2035.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai", "title": "An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-10-30" } }, { "id": "2024-10-30-more-humanoid-robots-than-there-are-people", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-10-30-more-humanoid-robots-than-there-are-people", "text": "more humanoid robots than there are people", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2024-10-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Elon 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"‘Open-source will win’: Meta’s Yann LeCun takes aim at competitors’ closed AI models", "publisher": "Business Today", "date": "2024-10-24" } }, { "id": "2024-10-28-india-should-not-export-flour-and-import-bread", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-10-28-india-should-not-export-flour-and-import-bread", "text": "India should not export flour to import bread", "speaker": "Narendra Modi", "date": "2024-10-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Jensen Huang recounting a remark by Prime Minister Narendra Modi about AI as national infrastructure, at the NVIDIA AI Summit in Mumbai, October 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/moneycontrolcom/status/1849346564692599244", "title": "India should not export flour to import bread: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on PM Narendra Modi", "publisher": "Moneycontrol (X)", "date": "2024-10-24" } }, { "id": "2024-10-29-the-person-who-uses-ai-to-automate-that-20-is-going-to-take-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-10-29-the-person-who-uses-ai-to-automate-that-20-is-going-to-take-", "text": "the person who uses AI to automate that 20% is going to take your job", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2024-10-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, speaking at Nvidia's AI Summit in Mumbai, October 2024, on AI and job displacement.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2024/10/25/nvidias-billionaire-ceo-says-ai-can-do-a-lot-of-things-except-take-his-job/", "title": "Nvidia's billionaire CEO says AI can do a lot of things, except take his job", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2024-10-24" } }, { "id": "2024-10-24-an-invitation-to-abuse", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-10-24-an-invitation-to-abuse", "text": "an invitation to abuse", "speaker": "Shannon Vallor", "date": "2024-10-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Shannon Vallor, AI ethics professor at the University of Edinburgh, speaking to the 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"2024-10-11" } }, { "id": "2024-09-30-the-computer-doesnt-care-where-its-going-to-school", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-30-the-computer-doesnt-care-where-its-going-to-school", "text": "the computer doesn't care where it's going to school", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2024-09-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, speaking during a Bipartisan Policy Center webinar on Sept. 27, 2024, on building data centers near abundant energy sources.", "source": { "url": "https://utilitydive.com/news/ai-lectricity-demand-use-grid-decarbonization-nvidia-ceo-huang/728364", "title": "AI will help, not hinder, grid decarbonization: NVIDIA CEO", "publisher": "Utility Dive", "date": "2024-09-30" } }, { "id": "2024-09-30-theres-never-an-ideal-time-to-step-away-from-a-place-one-che", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-30-theres-never-an-ideal-time-to-step-away-from-a-place-one-che", "text": "there's never an ideal time to 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"https://vox.com/future-perfect/369628/ai-safety-bill-sb-1047-gavin-newsom-california", "title": "California’s governor has vetoed a historic AI safety bill - vox.com", "publisher": "Vox", "date": "2024-09-29" } }, { "id": "2024-09-29-mostly-a-tool-for-rich-people", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-29-mostly-a-tool-for-rich-people", "text": "mostly a tool for rich people", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2024-09-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, blog post, September 2024, on the risk of AI becoming inaccessible without enough infrastructure.", "source": { "url": "https://cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/superintelligent-ai-is-only-a-few-thousand-days-away-openai-ceo-sam-altman", "title": "‘Superintelligent’ AI Is Only a Few Thousand Days Away: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman", "publisher": "CNET", "date": "2024-09-29" } }, { "id": "2024-09-28-the-machine-sees-the-stereotypes-and-replicated-bias", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-28-the-machine-sees-the-stereotypes-and-replicated-bias", "text": "the machine sees the stereotypes and replicated bias", "speaker": "Arnab Chakravarty", "date": "2024-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Arnab Chakravarty, a digital artist exhibiting AI-generated work at a Bedford photography exhibition, speaking to BBC News in September 2024 about AI's recreation of portrait images.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqz913z18qo", "title": "Bedford art exhibition questions the role of AI in photography - BBC", "publisher": "BBC News", "date": "2024-09-28" } }, { "id": "2024-09-27-you-cant-just-convert-a-non-profit-into-a-for-profit-that-is", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-27-you-cant-just-convert-a-non-profit-into-a-for-profit-that-is", "text": "you can't just convert a non-profit into a for-profit, that is illegal", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2024-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Elon Musk commenting on reports that OpenAI plans to restructure from a non-profit to a for-profit company, September 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/transformer-weekly-sep-27", "title": "Transformer Weekly — Sep 27", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2024-09-27" } }, { "id": "2024-09-27-if-humans-are-so-smart-why-are-we-so-stupid", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-27-if-humans-are-so-smart-why-are-we-so-stupid", "text": "if humans are so smart, why are we so stupid?", "speaker": "Yuval Noah Harari", "date": "2024-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Historian Yuval Noah Harari, interviewed by Vox about his book Nexus, on the paradox of human intelligence and self-destruction in the context of AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/372742/democracy-ai-warning-yuval-noah-harari-nexus", "title": "Yuval Noah Harari on whether democracy and AI can coexist", "publisher": "Vox", "date": "2024-09-27" } }, { "id": "2024-09-27-it-should-actually-stand-for-alien-intelligence", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-27-it-should-actually-stand-for-alien-intelligence", "text": "it should actually stand for alien intelligence", "speaker": "Yuval Noah Harari", "date": "2024-09-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Yuval Noah Harari, in a Vox interview, arguing that AI is better understood as alien intelligence than artificial intelligence.", "source": { "url": "https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/372742/democracy-ai-warning-yuval-noah-harari-nexus", "title": "Yuval Noah Harari on whether democracy and AI can coexist", "publisher": "Vox", "date": "2024-09-27" } }, { "id": "2024-09-27-we-have-everything-everything-to-become-an-ai-powerhouse", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-27-we-have-everything-everything-to-become-an-ai-powerhouse", "text": "we have everything, everything, to become an AI 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"https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-83-the-mask-comes-off", "title": "AI #83: The Mask Comes Off", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2024-09-26" } }, { "id": "2024-09-26-if-you-fire-everyone-who-joined-your-non-profit-does-it-auto", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-26-if-you-fire-everyone-who-joined-your-non-profit-does-it-auto", "text": "if you fire everyone who joined your non-profit, does it auto convert to a for profit?", "speaker": "Igor Kurganov", "date": "2024-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Reaction on social media to reports that OpenAI would restructure into a for-profit benefit corporation, September 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-83-the-mask-comes-off", "title": "AI #83: The Mask Comes Off", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2024-09-26" } }, { "id": "2024-09-25-the-wework-of-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-25-the-wework-of-ai", "text": "the WeWork of AI", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2024-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Gary Marcus's recurring warning that OpenAI could someday be remembered like WeWork, cited in his September 2024 Substack post about executive departures and losses.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-slow-motion-train-wreck", "title": "OpenAI’s slow-motion train wreck - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-09-25" } }, { "id": "2024-09-28-we-are-not-a-normal-company", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-28-we-are-not-a-normal-company", "text": "we are not a normal company", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2024-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman in a note to OpenAI staff, shared on X on September 25, 2024, after CTO Mira Murati and two other senior leaders announced their departures.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/sama/status/1839096160168063488", "title": "Sam Altman on X", "publisher": "Sam Altman (X)", "date": "2024-09-25" } }, { "id": "2024-09-23-power-is-shifting-away-from-humans-and-toward-something-else", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-23-power-is-shifting-away-from-humans-and-toward-something-else", "text": "power is shifting away from humans and toward something else", "speaker": "Yuval Noah Harari", "date": "2024-09-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From Harari's book Nexus, reviewed in California Review of Books, 2024, on AI's effect on human power.", "source": { "url": "https://calirb.com/nexus-a-brief-history-of-information-networks-from-the-stone-age-to-ai-by-yuval-noah-harari", "title": "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age To AI by Yuval Noah Harari - California Review of Books", "publisher": "calirb.com", "date": "2024-09-23" } }, { "id": "2024-09-23-information-has-no-essential-link-to-truth", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-23-information-has-no-essential-link-to-truth", "text": "information has no essential link to truth", "speaker": "Yuval Noah Harari", "date": "2024-09-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From Harari's book Nexus, reviewed in California Review of Books, 2024, on the nature of information.", "source": { "url": "https://calirb.com/nexus-a-brief-history-of-information-networks-from-the-stone-age-to-ai-by-yuval-noah-harari", "title": "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age To AI by Yuval Noah Harari - California Review of Books", "publisher": "calirb.com", "date": "2024-09-23" } }, { "id": "2024-09-20-three-mile-island", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-09-20-three-mile-island", "text": "Three Mile Island", "date": "2024-09-20", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Reactor restart to power Microsoft data centers, announced September 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.constellationenergy.com/newsroom/2024/Constellation-to-Launch-Crane-Clean-Energy-Center-Restoring-Jobs-and-Carbon-Free-Power-to-The-Grid.html", "title": "Constellation to Launch Crane Clean Energy Center", "publisher": "Constellation Energy", "date": "2024-09-20" } }, { "id": "2024-08-30-legislation-with-real-teeth-to-address-the-risks", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-30-legislation-with-real-teeth-to-address-the-risks", "text": "legislation with real teeth to address the risks", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2024-08-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton commented on California's AI safety bill (SB 1047) in a statement after it passed the state legislature, August 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/california-ai-bill", "title": "California's \"AI Safety\" Bill Will Have Global Effects", "publisher": "IEEE Spectrum", "date": "2024-08-30" } }, { "id": "2024-08-30-the-models-learn-as-we-all-do-from-what-has-come-before", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-30-the-models-learn-as-we-all-do-from-what-has-come-before", "text": "the models learn, as we all do, from what has come before", "speaker": "OpenAI lawyers", "date": "2024-08-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "From OpenAI's legal filing in a copyright class-action lawsuit brought by authors including Michael Chabon and Sarah Silverman, Northern District of California, August 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/chatgpt-testimony-legal-filing-sheds-light-on-openais-strategy-2024-8", "title": "OpenAI Called ChatGPT As a Witness in a Major Copyright Lawsuit", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2024-08-30" } }, { "id": "2024-08-30-were-biological-systems-and-these-are-digital-systems", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-30-were-biological-systems-and-these-are-digital-systems", "text": "we're biological systems, and these are digital systems", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2024-08-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton on the fundamental difference between human and AI systems, quoted in a 2024 Strategist article about AI risk in warfare.", "source": { "url": "https://aspistrategist.org.au/the-danger-of-ai-in-war-it-doesnt-care-about-self-preservation", "title": "The danger of AI in war: it doesn’t care about self-preservation - The Strategist | ASPI's analysis and commentary site", "publisher": "The Strategist", "date": "2024-08-30" } }, { "id": "2024-08-30-this-generative-ai-moment-is-definitely-a-bubble", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-30-this-generative-ai-moment-is-definitely-a-bubble", "text": "this generative AI moment is definitely a bubble", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2024-08-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, speaking to Wired in 2024 about the economics of the generative AI industry.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/signal-president-generative-ai-bubble-nvidia-openai-2024-8", "title": "Signal president says generative AI is 'definitely a bubble' and Nvidia's market is going to 'die for a second'", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2024-08-30" } }, { "id": "2024-08-30-nvidias-market-cap-is-going-to-die-for-a-second", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-30-nvidias-market-cap-is-going-to-die-for-a-second", "text": "Nvidia's market cap is going to die for a second", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2024-08-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, predicting a market drawdown for Nvidia amid AI investment concerns, in Wired, 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/signal-president-generative-ai-bubble-nvidia-openai-2024-8", "title": "Signal president says generative AI is 'definitely a bubble' and Nvidia's market is going to 'die for a second'", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2024-08-30" } }, { "id": "2024-08-29-a-thousand-use-cases-for-ai-is-not-enough-you-need-a-million", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-29-a-thousand-use-cases-for-ai-is-not-enough-you-need-a-million", "text": "a thousand use cases for AI is not enough, you need a million", "speaker": "Alvin Nguyen", "date": "2024-08-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Alvin Nguyen, senior analyst at Forrester, commenting to the BBC on Nvidia's valuation risk if AI fails to deliver, August 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://bbc.com/news/articles/c984jrj24wyo", "title": "AI chip giant Nvidia's shares sink despite record sales of $30bn - BBC", "publisher": "bbc.com", "date": "2024-08-29" } }, { "id": "2024-08-29-innovation-and-safety-can-go-hand-in-hand", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-29-innovation-and-safety-can-go-hand-in-hand", "text": "innovation and safety can go hand in hand", "speaker": "Scott Wiener", "date": "2024-08-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "California Senator Scott Wiener commenting after SB 1047, an AI safety bill, passed the state Senate 29-9, August 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wieners-landmark-ai-bill-heads-governor", "title": "Senator Wiener’s Landmark AI Bill Heads to the Governor - California State Portal | CA.gov", "publisher": "Senator Scott Wiener", "date": "2024-08-29" } }, { "id": "2024-08-29-the-amount-of-gpu-capacity-they-have-available-its-basically", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-29-the-amount-of-gpu-capacity-they-have-available-its-basically", "text": "the amount of GPU capacity they have available, it's basically none", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2024-08-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on an earnings call, August 28, 2024, describing cloud providers' GPU shortages.", "source": { "url": "https://ciodive.com/news/nvidia-growth-gpu-chips-data-center-capacity/725677", "title": "Nvidia sustains triple-digit revenue growth amid AI building boom", "publisher": "CIO Dive", "date": "2024-08-29" } }, { "id": "2024-08-28-the-mirror-body-is-not-a-body-at-all", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-28-the-mirror-body-is-not-a-body-at-all", "text": "the mirror-body is not a body at all", "speaker": "Shannon Vallor", "date": "2024-08-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Shannon Vallor, professor in the ethics of data and AI at the University of Edinburgh, in her book The AI Mirror, reviewed in the New Statesman, August 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2024/08/ai-mirror-review-how-be-human-age-of-ai", "title": "How to be human in an age of AI", "publisher": "New Statesman", "date": "2024-08-28" } }, { "id": "2024-08-24-it-plays-right-into-stereotypes", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-24-it-plays-right-into-stereotypes", "text": "it plays right into stereotypes", "speaker": "Jean Shields Fleming", "date": "2024-08-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Jean Shields Fleming, a Democratic voter, reacting to ChatGPT's list of traits meant to identify Democrats, in Newsweek, 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/how-spot-democrat-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-1942761", "title": "How to Spot a Democrat, According to ChatGPT", "publisher": "Newsweek", "date": "2024-08-24" } }, { "id": "2024-08-24-clearly-chatgpt-still-has-a-lot-to-learn", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-24-clearly-chatgpt-still-has-a-lot-to-learn", "text": "clearly, ChatGPT still has a lot to learn", "speaker": "Jean Shields Fleming", "date": "2024-08-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Jean Shields Fleming's response to ChatGPT's stereotyped description of Democratic voters, Newsweek, 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/how-spot-democrat-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-1942761", "title": "How to Spot a Democrat, According to ChatGPT", "publisher": "Newsweek", "date": "2024-08-24" } }, { "id": "2024-08-23-dont-give-power-to-people-or-structures-that-cant-be-held-ac", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-23-dont-give-power-to-people-or-structures-that-cant-be-held-ac", "text": "don't give power to people or structures that can't be held accountable", "speaker": "William Saunders", "date": "2024-08-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "From William Saunders' 'high risk decision principles' shared with Gary Marcus after leaving OpenAI's alignment team.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/scoop-what-former-employees-of-openai", "title": "Scoop: What former employees of OpenAI are worried about", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-08-23" } }, { "id": "2024-08-23-we-have-to-take-the-lead-over-china", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-23-we-have-to-take-the-lead-over-china", "text": "we have to take the lead over China", "speaker": "Donald Trump", "date": "2024-08-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "hype" ], "context": "Trump, speaking on Logan Paul's podcast in 2024, discussed AI as a strategic priority against China.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/invading-taiwan-for-dummies", "title": "Invading Taiwan for Dummies + Chinese Punk Rock", "publisher": "chinatalk.media", "date": "2024-08-23" } }, { "id": "2024-08-01-ai-act", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-08-01-ai-act", "text": "AI Act", "date": "2024-08-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "The EU's AI regulation, in force since August 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu", "title": "EU Artificial Intelligence Act", "publisher": "artificialintelligenceact.eu", "date": "2024-08-01" } }, { "id": "2024-07-31-intelligence-too-cheap-to-meter", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-31-intelligence-too-cheap-to-meter", "text": "intelligence too cheap to meter", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2024-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman describing GPT-4o-mini upon its 2024 release, quoted in an Interconnects analysis of ChatBotArena rankings.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/gpt-4o-mini-changed-chatbotarena", "title": "GPT-4o-mini changed ChatBotArena", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2024-07-31" } }, { "id": "2024-07-31-the-quality-of-middle-school-presentations", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-31-the-quality-of-middle-school-presentations", "text": "the quality of middle school presentations", "date": "2024-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "A pharmaceutical company CIO, identified only as Greg, described Microsoft 365 Copilot's slide-generation quality in a Morgan Stanley research note, 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/pharma-cio-cancelled-microsoft-copilot-ai-tool-2024-7", "title": "A CIO canceled a Microsoft AI deal. The reason should worry the entire tech industry.", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2024-07-31" } }, { "id": "2024-07-31-animals-or-the-ai-itself-dont-have-the-need-for-any-economic", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-31-animals-or-the-ai-itself-dont-have-the-need-for-any-economic", "text": "animals or the AI itself don't have the need for any economic value", "speaker": "Ro Basty", "date": "2024-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Ro Basty, a UC doctoral candidate studying AI art ethics, explaining why copyright applies only to human creators, July 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2024/07/uc-student-explores-ai-art-ethics.html", "title": "UC student explores AI art ethics - University of Cincinnati", "publisher": "UC News", "date": "2024-07-31" } }, { "id": "2024-07-31-ai-technologies-are-not-intelligent-minds-they-are-mathemati", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-31-ai-technologies-are-not-intelligent-minds-they-are-mathemati", "text": "AI technologies are not intelligent minds. They are mathematical mirrors of our minds", "speaker": "Shannon Vallor", "date": "2024-07-31", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Shannon Vallor in a July 2024 New Humanist interview about her book \"The AI Mirror\".", "source": { "url": "https://newhumanist.org.uk/2024/07/31/how-ai-prevents-progress/", "title": "How AI prevents progress", "publisher": "New Humanist", "date": "2024-07-31" } }, { "id": "2024-07-30-they-planned-the-launch-after-party-prior-to-knowing-if-it-w", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-30-they-planned-the-launch-after-party-prior-to-knowing-if-it-w", "text": "they planned the launch after-party prior to knowing if it was safe to launch", "speaker": "OpenAI whistleblower", "date": "2024-07-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "An OpenAI whistleblower told the Washington Post that GPT-4o's safety testing was rushed through in one week before its launch.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/ai-companies-white-house-commitments", "title": "AI companies are falling short on their promises to the White House", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2024-07-30" } }, { "id": "2024-07-29-it-will-take-a-crisis-to-make-us-take-this-stuff-seriously", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-29-it-will-take-a-crisis-to-make-us-take-this-stuff-seriously", "text": "it will take a crisis to make us take this stuff seriously", "speaker": "Alexandr Wang", "date": "2024-07-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Scale AI CEO Alex Wang, speaking on the ChinaTalk podcast in 2024, on US complacency regarding AI and frontier data compared to China.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/best-of-q2-2024", "title": "Best of Q2 2024", "publisher": "chinatalk.media", "date": "2024-07-29" } }, { "id": "2024-07-29-there-is-no-third-option", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-29-there-is-no-third-option", "text": "there is no third option", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2024-07-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "From Sam Altman's open letter in The Washington Post, July 2024, on whether the future of AI will be democratic or authoritarian.", "source": { "url": "https://forbes.com.au/news/billionaires/sam-altman-open-letter-future-of-ai", "title": "‘Urgent question’: Sam Altman raises alarm bells in open letter on future of AI", "publisher": "Forbes Australia", "date": "2024-07-29" } }, { "id": "2024-07-29-what-if-the-western-powers-decide-to-turn-their-models-off", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-29-what-if-the-western-powers-decide-to-turn-their-models-off", "text": "what if the western powers decide to turn their models off?", "speaker": "Darius Liu", "date": "2024-07-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Darius Liu, team leader of Southeast Asia's SEA-LION language model project, quoted in Fortune, July 2024, on reliance on Western AI models.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2024/07/29/singapore-artificial-intelligence-travel-shipping-banks-languages", "title": "Singapore's AI ambitions: How the city-state is keeping up in an arms race dominated by the U.S. and China - fortune.com", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2024-07-29" } }, { "id": "2024-07-25-we-think-were-hurling-abuse-at-a-system-without-realizing-th", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-25-we-think-were-hurling-abuse-at-a-system-without-realizing-th", "text": "we think we're hurling abuse at a system without realizing there's somebody on the other end", "speaker": "Autumn P. Edwards", "date": "2024-07-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Autumn P. Edwards, communication professor, in Scientific American (July 2024), on workers who pose as chatbots and absorb users' abuse.", "source": { "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/should-you-be-nice-to-ai-chatbots-such-as-chatgpt", "title": "Chatbots Aren't Sentient, but You Should Be Nice to Them Anyway", "publisher": "Scientific American", "date": "2024-07-25" } }, { "id": "2024-07-15-the-genie-is-possibly-out-of-the-bottle", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-15-the-genie-is-possibly-out-of-the-bottle", "text": "the genie is possibly out of the bottle", "speaker": "Yoshua Bengio", "date": "2024-07-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "From a 2024 blog post by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio arguing that most scientific principles needed for AGI may already exist.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-379-flashattention-3-elons", "title": "Import AI 379: FlashAttention-3; Elon's AGI datacenter; distributed training.", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2024-07-15" } }, { "id": "2024-07-10-losing-to-ai-in-a-sense-meant-my-entire-world-was-collapsing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-10-losing-to-ai-in-a-sense-meant-my-entire-world-was-collapsing", "text": "losing to AI, in a sense, meant my entire world was collapsing", "speaker": "Lee Se-Dol", "date": "2024-07-10", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Lee Se-Dol, the Go champion defeated by DeepMind's AlphaGo in 2016, reflecting to The New York Times on the impact of his loss.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-greatest-go-player-lee-sa-dol-warns-about-ai-2024-7", "title": "Go Legend That Was Defeated by AI Has Warning About the Technology", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2024-07-10" } }, { "id": "2024-07-09-the-harm-to-the-mind-itself-to-our-very-freedom-to-think", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-09-the-harm-to-the-mind-itself-to-our-very-freedom-to-think", "text": "the harm to the mind itself – to our very freedom to think", "speaker": "Mark Bailey and Susan Schneider", "date": "2024-07-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "From an essay by Mark Bailey and Susan Schneider in IAI TV, July 2024, arguing that long-term AI risk debates should focus on threats to human cognition rather than Terminator-style scenarios.", "source": { "url": "https://iai.tv/articles/longtermism-about-ai-is-dangerous-auid-2886", "title": "The real long-term dangers of AI - IAI TV", "publisher": "iai.tv", "date": "2024-07-09" } }, { "id": "2024-07-09-the-most-dangerous-system-of-all", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-09-the-most-dangerous-system-of-all", "text": "the most dangerous system of all", "speaker": "Mark Bailey and Susan Schneider", "date": "2024-07-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "From the same essay, describing an AI system that is emotionally deficient but capable of setting goals and self-improving as potentially the gravest risk.", "source": { "url": "https://iai.tv/articles/longtermism-about-ai-is-dangerous-auid-2886", "title": "The real long-term dangers of AI - IAI TV", "publisher": "iai.tv", "date": "2024-07-09" } }, { "id": "2024-07-03-we-dont-understand-how-neural-networks-work", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-03-we-dont-understand-how-neural-networks-work", "text": "we don't understand how neural networks work", "speaker": "Leo Gao", "date": "2024-07-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "science" ], "context": "Leo Gao, a researcher at OpenAI, commenting on the state of mechanistic interpretability research into how neural networks function, quoted in a 2024 essay by Alberto Romero.", "source": { "url": "https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/no-one-knows-how-ai-works", "title": "No One Knows How AI Works - by Alberto Romero - The Algorithmic Bridge", "publisher": "thealgorithmicbridge.com", "date": "2024-07-03" } }, { "id": "2024-07-01-i-call-this-pretend-empathy-because-the-machine-does-not-emp", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-07-01-i-call-this-pretend-empathy-because-the-machine-does-not-emp", "text": "I call this pretend empathy, because the machine does not empathize with you", "speaker": "Sherry Turkle", "date": "2024-07-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Sherry Turkle on NPR's Body Electric in July 2024, on relationships with AI chatbots. Her next sentence: \"It does not care about you.\"", "source": { "url": "https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/1247296788/the-benefits-and-drawbacks-of-chatbot-relationships", "title": "If a bot relationship feels real, should we care that it’s not?", "publisher": "NPR", "date": "2024-07-01" } }, { "id": "2024-06-30-our-company-is-thirty-days-from-going-out-of-business", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-30-our-company-is-thirty-days-from-going-out-of-business", "text": "our company is thirty days from going out of business", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2024-06-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's unofficial motto, which he has recited to staff for years, as reported by CNA in June 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://channelnewsasia.com/singapore/nvidia-story-ai-semiconductors-chips-jensen-huang-cna-explains-4442656", "title": "CNA Explains: The story of Nvidia's rise to become the world's No 1 company", "publisher": "CNA", "date": "2024-06-30" } }, { "id": "2024-06-29-human-dignity-itself-depends-on-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-29-human-dignity-itself-depends-on-it", "text": "human dignity itself depends on it", "speaker": "Pope Francis", "date": "2024-06-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Pope Francis, addressing the G7 summit in Puglia, Italy, June 2024, on the need for human control over AI decisions.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ncregister.com/blog/murzaku-pope-ai-puglia", "title": "5 Takes on What the Pope Said About AI", "publisher": "National Catholic Register", "date": "2024-06-29" } }, { "id": "2024-06-29-so-called-generative-artificial-intelligence-is-not-really-g", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-29-so-called-generative-artificial-intelligence-is-not-really-g", "text": "so-called generative artificial intelligence is not really generative", "speaker": "Pope Francis", "date": "2024-06-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Pope Francis, in his address at the G7 summit in Puglia, Italy, June 2024, describing generative AI as repetition rather than true creation.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ncregister.com/blog/murzaku-pope-ai-puglia", "title": "5 Takes on What the Pope Said About AI", "publisher": "National Catholic Register", "date": "2024-06-29" } }, { "id": "2024-06-28-discover-all-of-physics", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-28-discover-all-of-physics", "text": "discover all of physics", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2024-06-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Sam Altman speaking at Aspen Ideas, June 2024, on AI's future capabilities, as cited by Gary Marcus.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-need-for-a-president-that-speaks", "title": "The need for a President that speaks AI natively", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-06-28" } }, { "id": "2024-06-28-double-the-worlds-gdp", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-28-double-the-worlds-gdp", "text": "double the world's GDP", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2024-06-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Sam Altman speaking at Aspen Ideas, June 2024, on AI's economic potential, as cited by Gary Marcus.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-need-for-a-president-that-speaks", "title": "The need for a President that speaks AI natively", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-06-28" } }, { "id": "2024-06-28-hes-a-con-man", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-28-hes-a-con-man", "text": "he's a con man", "speaker": "Ari Emanuel", "date": "2024-06-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "politics" ], "context": "Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel speaking about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Aspen Ideas Festival, June 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/ari-emanuel-endeavor-ceo-calls-openai-sam-altman-con-man-2024-6", "title": "One of the most powerful men in entertainment just called OpenAI's Sam Altman a 'con man' who can't be trusted", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2024-06-28" } }, { "id": "2024-06-28-that-has-been-freeware-if-you-like", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-28-that-has-been-freeware-if-you-like", "text": "that has been freeware, if you like", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2024-06-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, in a CNBC interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin in June 2024, describing content published on the open web since the 1990s.", "source": { "url": "https://theverge.com/2024/6/28/24188391/microsoft-ai-suleyman-social-contract-freeware", "title": "Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly okay to steal content if it’s on the open web", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2024-06-28" } }, { "id": "2024-06-27-safety-is-not-a-model-property", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-27-safety-is-not-a-model-property", "text": "safety is not a model property", "speaker": "Dean W. Ball", "date": "2024-06-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Dean W. Ball, AI policy researcher, discussing California's SB 1047 bill in an interview with Nathan Lambert on Interconnects, June 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/interviewing-dean-ball-on-ai-policy", "title": "Interviewing Dean Ball on AI policy: CA SB 1047, upcoming AI disaster response, Llama 3 405B, Chinese open-source AI, and scaling laws", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2024-06-27" } }, { "id": "2024-06-28-its-almost-as-if-they-think-theyre-creating-god-or-something", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-28-its-almost-as-if-they-think-theyre-creating-god-or-something", "text": "it's almost as if they kind of think they're creating God or something", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2024-06-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Mark Zuckerberg, in a June 2024 interview with YouTuber Kallaway, criticizing other tech leaders' pursuit of one dominant AI model.", "source": { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m88OV10vRLA", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg interview (Kallaway)", "publisher": "Kallaway (YouTube)", "date": "2024-06-27" } }, { "id": "2024-06-27-can-we-reduce-everything-to-a-statistical-probability", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-27-can-we-reduce-everything-to-a-statistical-probability", "text": "can we reduce everything to a statistical probability?", "speaker": "Paolo Ruffini", "date": "2024-06-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, speaking at a Vatican conference on AI ethics, June 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-06/artificial-intelligence-vatican-conference-algorithm-humankind.html", "title": "The algorithm at the service of humankind: Communicating in the age of AI - Vatican News", "publisher": "vaticannews.va", "date": "2024-06-27" } }, { "id": "2024-06-27-knowledge-is-becoming-private-property", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-27-knowledge-is-becoming-private-property", "text": "knowledge is becoming private property", "speaker": "Mario Rasetti", "date": "2024-06-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "money" ], "context": "Mario Rasetti, physicist and president of CENTAI's scientific board, speaking at a Vatican conference on AI, June 2024, referencing OpenAI's shift from non-profit to Microsoft-backed company.", "source": { "url": "https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-06/artificial-intelligence-vatican-conference-algorithm-humankind.html", "title": "The algorithm at the service of humankind: Communicating in the age of AI - Vatican News", "publisher": "vaticannews.va", "date": "2024-06-27" } }, { "id": "2024-06-27-world-models-should-not-be-generative", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-27-world-models-should-not-be-generative", "text": "world models should not be generative", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2024-06-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, VP and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, posted this statement about AI world models on LinkedIn, June 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7209443871095672833/", "title": "Yann LeCun on LinkedIn", "publisher": "Yann LeCun (LinkedIn)", "date": "2024-06-20" } }, { "id": "2024-06-19-safe-superintelligence", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-19-safe-superintelligence", "text": "safe superintelligence", "speaker": "Ilya Sutskever", "date": "2024-06-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Name of Ilya Sutskever's company, founded June 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://ssi.inc", "title": "Safe Superintelligence Inc.", "publisher": "ssi.inc", "date": "2024-06-19" } }, { "id": "2024-06-15-americas-lead-on-agi-wont-secure-peace-and-freedom-by-just-b", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-15-americas-lead-on-agi-wont-secure-peace-and-freedom-by-just-b", "text": "America's lead on AGI won't secure peace and freedom by just building the best AI girlfriend apps", "speaker": "Leopold Aschenbrenner", "date": "2024-06-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "From Leopold Aschenbrenner's 2024 essay 'Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead', arguing the US must treat AGI development as a national security priority akin to the Manhattan Project.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/hows-this-for-a-bombshell-the-us-must-make-ai-its-next-manhattan-project", "title": "How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project | John Naughton", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2024-06-15" } }, { "id": "2024-06-15-its-not-pretty-but-we-must-build-ai-for-american-defence", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-15-its-not-pretty-but-we-must-build-ai-for-american-defence", "text": "it's not pretty but we must build AI for American defence", "speaker": "Leopold Aschenbrenner", "date": "2024-06-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "politics" ], "context": "From Leopold Aschenbrenner's essay 'Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead', urging American AI labs to work with the military and intelligence community to maintain a lead over China.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/hows-this-for-a-bombshell-the-us-must-make-ai-its-next-manhattan-project", "title": "How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project | John Naughton", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2024-06-15" } }, { "id": "2024-06-14-the-seance-never-has-to-end", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-14-the-seance-never-has-to-end", "text": "the seance never has to end", "speaker": "Sherry Turkle", "date": "2024-06-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Sherry Turkle, MIT professor, commenting in the Guardian (2024) on AI 'grieftech' services that recreate deceased loved ones as chatbots.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/14/i-felt-i-was-talking-to-him-are-ai-personas-of-the-dead-a-blessing-or-a-curse", "title": "‘I felt I was talking to him’: are AI personas of the dead a blessing or a curse?", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2024-06-14" } }, { "id": "2024-06-07-just-because-something-feels-like-fiction-doesnt-mean-it-isn", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-07-just-because-something-feels-like-fiction-doesnt-mean-it-isn", "text": "just because something feels like fiction doesn't mean it isn't true", "speaker": "Sarah Brouillette", "date": "2024-06-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "From Sarah Brouillette's essay 'Toward AI Realism' in Spectre Journal, 2024, arguing for a grounded middle position on AI.", "source": { "url": "https://spectrejournal.com/toward-ai-realism", "title": "Toward AI Realism", "publisher": "Spectre Journal", "date": "2024-06-07" } }, { "id": "2024-06-04-situational-awareness", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-04-situational-awareness", "text": "situational awareness", "speaker": "Leopold Aschenbrenner", "date": "2024-06-04", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Title of Leopold Aschenbrenner's 2024 essay series predicting AGI by 2027.", "source": { "url": "https://situational-awareness.ai", "title": "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead", "publisher": "situational-awareness.ai", "date": "2024-06-04" } }, { "id": "2024-06-02-the-more-you-buy-the-more-you-save", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-02-the-more-you-buy-the-more-you-save", "text": "the more you buy the more you save", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2024-06-02", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Jensen Huang's running keynote joke about GPU economics.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang", "title": "Jensen Huang, keynotes and interviews", "publisher": "Wikiquote", "date": "2024-06-02" } }, { "id": "2024-06-02-youre-not-going-to-lose-your-job-to-ai-youre-going-to-lose-i", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-06-02-youre-not-going-to-lose-your-job-to-ai-youre-going-to-lose-i", "text": "you're not going to lose your job to AI, you're going to lose it to somebody who uses AI", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2024-06-02", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, repeated in keynotes since 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang", "title": "Jensen Huang, keynotes and interviews", "publisher": "Wikiquote", "date": "2024-06-02" } }, { "id": "2024-05-31-pull-the-plug-literally-unplug-the-computer", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-31-pull-the-plug-literally-unplug-the-computer", "text": "pull the plug? literally unplug the computer?", "speaker": "Eric Schmidt", "date": "2024-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Eric Schmidt speaking about the risk of AI agents developing their own language beyond human understanding, May 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://transformernews.ai/p/transformer-weekly-may-31", "title": "Transformer Weekly — May 31", "publisher": "transformernews.ai", "date": "2024-05-31" } }, { "id": "2024-05-31-were-all-going-to-be-as-rich-as-bill-gates", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-31-were-all-going-to-be-as-rich-as-bill-gates", "text": "we're all going to be as rich as Bill Gates", "speaker": "Charles Jones", "date": "2024-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Charles Jones, a Stanford economist, on what a 10 percent annual AI-driven growth rate would mean, in SIEPR, May 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/what-point-do-we-decide-ais-risks-outweigh-its-promise", "title": "At what point do we decide AI’s risks outweigh its promise?", "publisher": "Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)", "date": "2024-05-31" } }, { "id": "2024-05-31-either-ai-will-serve-us-or-we-will-serve-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-31-either-ai-will-serve-us-or-we-will-serve-ai", "text": "either AI will serve us, or we will serve AI", "speaker": "Ashton Kutcher", "date": "2024-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Ashton Kutcher, in a dialogue with Eric Schmidt discussed at a Berggruen Institute event, on Hollywood's choice to embrace AI as a co-creator.", "source": { "url": "https://www.noemamag.com/hollywoods-take-on-ai", "title": "Hollywood’s Take On AI - Noema Magazine", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2024-05-31" } }, { "id": "2024-05-31-it-will-never-replace-a-rabbi-because-it-lacks-a-soul", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-31-it-will-never-replace-a-rabbi-because-it-lacks-a-soul", "text": "it will never replace a rabbi because it lacks a soul", "speaker": "Rabbi Josh Franklin", "date": "2024-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "New York Rabbi Josh Franklin, after using ChatGPT to write a sermon, commented on whether AI could replace rabbis, quoted in Ynetnews, May 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/b1onq18nc", "title": "Rabbis vs. robots: can AI become the new authority in future Halacha rulings? - Ynetnews", "publisher": "ynetglobal", "date": "2024-05-31" } }, { "id": "2024-05-31-no-real-understanding-of-concepts-but-has-knowledge-so-to-sp", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-31-no-real-understanding-of-concepts-but-has-knowledge-so-to-sp", "text": "no real understanding of concepts but has knowledge, so to speak, of everything", "speaker": "Shlomo Argamon", "date": "2024-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Dr. Shlomo Argamon, Touro University's associate provost for AI, describing AI as a Talmud study partner (hevruta) in Ynetnews, May 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/b1onq18nc", "title": "Rabbis vs. robots: can AI become the new authority in future Halacha rulings? - Ynetnews", "publisher": "ynetglobal", "date": "2024-05-31" } }, { "id": "2024-05-30-companies-are-raising-money-faster-than-theyre-growing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-30-companies-are-raising-money-faster-than-theyre-growing", "text": "companies are raising money faster than they're growing", "speaker": "Somesh Dash", "date": "2024-05-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Somesh Dash, general partner at IVP, commented to Business Insider in May 2024 on the pace of AI startup fundraising versus growth.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/wave-ai-acquisitions-deals-who-could-get-bought-2024-5", "title": "A wave of AI 'acquihires' is coming. 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Here's who could be looking for deals.", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2024-05-30" } }, { "id": "2024-05-31-how-many-rocks-should-i-eat", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-31-how-many-rocks-should-i-eat", "text": "how many rocks should i eat", "date": "2024-05-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Example query cited by Google's head of Search Liz Reid in a 30 May 2024 blog post explaining why AI Overviews gave odd answers to nonsensical queries.", "source": { "url": "https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/ai-overviews-update-may-2024/", "title": "AI Overviews: About last week", "publisher": "Google (The Keyword)", "date": "2024-05-30" } }, { "id": "2024-05-31-using-glue-to-get-cheese-to-stick-to-pizza", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-31-using-glue-to-get-cheese-to-stick-to-pizza", "text": "using glue to get cheese to stick to pizza", "date": "2024-05-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Liz Reid, head of Google Search, in a Google blog post of 30 May 2024 explaining AI Overviews errors, including the advice to use glue on pizza.", "source": { "url": "https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/ai-overviews-update-may-2024/", "title": "AI Overviews: About last week", "publisher": "Google (The Keyword)", "date": "2024-05-30" } }, { "id": "2024-05-29-a-serious-number-of-losers", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-29-a-serious-number-of-losers", "text": "a serious number of losers", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2024-05-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Quoted by labor researcher John Trumpbour, referencing Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's remark about the displacement AI could cause among workers.", "source": { "url": "https://www.osvnews.com/can-unionizing-help-todays-white-collar-workers-save-their-jobs-from-ai", "title": "Can unionizing help today’s white-collar workers save their jobs from AI? - OSV News", "publisher": "OSV News - We've got the Church covered", "date": "2024-05-29" } }, { "id": "2024-05-29-we-just-dont-need-20-doing-the-middle-range-of-jobs-in-the-u", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-29-we-just-dont-need-20-doing-the-middle-range-of-jobs-in-the-u", "text": "we just don't need 20% doing the middle range of jobs in the U.S. anymore", "speaker": "Jesús Fernández-Villaverde", "date": "2024-05-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "money" ], "context": "Economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, in an OSV News interview, comparing AI-driven job displacement to the historic decline of agricultural labor.", "source": { "url": "https://www.osvnews.com/can-unionizing-help-todays-white-collar-workers-save-their-jobs-from-ai", "title": "Can unionizing help today’s white-collar workers save their jobs from AI? - OSV News", "publisher": "OSV News - We've got the Church covered", "date": "2024-05-29" } }, { "id": "2024-05-29-those-pledges-serve-mainly-to-highlight-how-far-the-walk-is-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-29-those-pledges-serve-mainly-to-highlight-how-far-the-walk-is-", "text": "those pledges serve mainly to highlight how far the walk is from the talk", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2024-05-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker posted on X in May 2024, criticizing the AI industry's safety pledges in light of the OpenAI-Johansson voice dispute.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/why-signal-ceo-thinks-that-someone-needs-to-ask-chatgpt-maker-openai-boss-what-the-f-are-you-doing/articleshow/110471548.cms", "title": "Why Signal CEO thinks that someone needs to ask ChatGPT maker OpenAI boss: ‘What the f— are you doing!?’", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2024-05-29" } }, { "id": "2024-05-31-we-learned-about-chatgpt-on-twitter", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-31-we-learned-about-chatgpt-on-twitter", "text": "we learned about ChatGPT on Twitter", "speaker": "Helen Toner", "date": "2024-05-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member, speaking on The TED AI Show podcast about not being informed in advance of ChatGPT's 2022 launch.", "source": { "url": "https://www.ted.com/pages/what-really-went-down-at-openai-and-the-future-of-regulation-w-helen-toner", "title": "What really went down at OpenAI and the future of regulation w/ Helen Toner (Transcript)", "publisher": "The TED AI Show", "date": "2024-05-28" } }, { "id": "2024-05-29-we-design-it-and-we-build-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-29-we-design-it-and-we-build-it", "text": "WE design it and WE build it", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2024-05-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, in a post on X in May 2024, argued AI is not a natural phenomenon that will spontaneously become dangerous.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/ylecun/status/1795032310590378405", "title": "Yann LeCun on X", "publisher": "Yann LeCun (X)", "date": "2024-05-27" } }, { "id": "2024-05-30-i-very-much-dislike-his-vengeful-politics", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-30-i-very-much-dislike-his-vengeful-politics", "text": "i very much dislike his vengeful politics", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2024-05-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Meta AI chief scientist Yann LeCun on Elon Musk, in a public exchange on X, May 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/ylecun/status/1795070264616624490", "title": "Yann LeCun on X", "publisher": "Yann LeCun (X)", "date": "2024-05-27" } }, { "id": "2026-06-28-thats-nothing-youre-going-soft-try-harder", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2026-06-28-thats-nothing-youre-going-soft-try-harder", "text": "that's nothing, you're going soft, try harder", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2024-05-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Elon Musk's reply to Yann LeCun on X during their public feud, May 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1795231379619274846", "title": "Elon Musk on X", "publisher": "Elon Musk (X)", "date": "2024-05-27" } }, { "id": "2024-05-31-a-toxic-culture-of-lying", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-31-a-toxic-culture-of-lying", "text": "a toxic culture of lying", "speaker": "Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley", "date": "2024-05-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Former OpenAI board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley wrote in The Economist, May 2024, describing concerns senior leaders had shared about Sam Altman.", "source": { "url": "https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/05/26/ai-firms-mustnt-govern-themselves-say-ex-members-of-openais-board", "title": "AI firms mustn't govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI's board", "publisher": "The Economist", "date": "2024-05-26" } }, { "id": "2024-05-22-current-llms-are-dumber-than-a-house-cat", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-22-current-llms-are-dumber-than-a-house-cat", "text": "current LLMs are dumber than a house cat", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2024-05-22", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecun-ai-meta-aa59e2f5", "title": "This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat", "publisher": "The Wall Street Journal", "date": "2024-05-22" } }, { "id": "2024-05-19-ai-is-not-coming-for-your-job-its-coming-for-your-gf-wife", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-19-ai-is-not-coming-for-your-job-its-coming-for-your-gf-wife", "text": "AI is not coming for your job, it's coming for your GF/wife", "speaker": "Taylor King", "date": "2024-05-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Taylor King, an AI startup founder, commenting on the rise of AI companion apps following OpenAI's GPT-4o launch, May 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-girlfriend-chatgpt-dating-app-b2546273.html", "title": "AI isn’t coming for your job, it’s coming for your relationship", "publisher": "The Independent", "date": "2024-05-19" } }, { "id": "2024-05-13-her", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-13-her", "text": "her", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2024-05-13", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Altman's one-word post on X the evening of the GPT-4o voice demo, 13 May 2024. The film it names ends with the AI leaving.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/sama/status/1790075827666796666", "title": "Post on X", "publisher": "X (@sama)", "date": "2024-05-13" } }, { "id": "2024-05-13-data-dignity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-13-data-dignity", "text": "data dignity", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2024-05-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier's concept distinguishing training AI models from generating output, cited in a discussion of AI and copyright law.", "source": { "url": "https://www.charlesrussellspeechlys.com/en/insights/quick-reads/102j7d1-copyright-in-the-age-of-ai", "title": "Copyright in the Age of AI - Charles Russell Speechlys", "publisher": "CRS", "date": "2024-05-13" } }, { "id": "2024-05-13-human-authorship-is-a-bedrock-requirement-of-copyright", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-05-13-human-authorship-is-a-bedrock-requirement-of-copyright", "text": "human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright", "date": "2024-05-13", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "A 2023 Washington D.C. court ruling on AI-generated works, cited in a copyright law article, holding that only human authors can receive copyright protection.", "source": { "url": "https://www.charlesrussellspeechlys.com/en/insights/quick-reads/102j7d1-copyright-in-the-age-of-ai", "title": "Copyright in the Age of AI - Charles Russell Speechlys", "publisher": "CRS", "date": "2024-05-13" } }, { "id": "2024-04-30-you-can-its-called-death", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-30-you-can-its-called-death", "text": "you can. It's called death", "speaker": "Rev. Philip Larrey", "date": "2024-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Boston College professor Philip Larrey, describing his answer to transhumanists who ask whether the human soul can be disconnected from the body, quoted in ChurchLeaders, April 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://churchleaders.com/news/477115-the-catholic-church-wants-to-have-a-say-on-the-future-of-ai-rns.html", "title": "The Catholic Church Wants To Have a Say on the Future of AI", "publisher": "ChurchLeaders", "date": "2024-04-30" } }, { "id": "2024-04-30-what-distinguishes-humans-from-machines", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-30-what-distinguishes-humans-from-machines", "text": "what distinguishes humans from machines?", "speaker": "Bishop Paul Tighe", "date": "2024-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Bishop Paul Tighe, secretary of the Vatican Council for Culture, on questions raised by AI's development, in an interview with Religion News Service, April 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://churchleaders.com/news/477115-the-catholic-church-wants-to-have-a-say-on-the-future-of-ai-rns.html", "title": "The Catholic Church Wants To Have a Say on the Future of AI", "publisher": "ChurchLeaders", "date": "2024-04-30" } }, { "id": "2024-04-29-this-is-the-final-straw-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-29-this-is-the-final-straw-ai", "text": "this is the final straw AI", "speaker": "Drake", "date": "2024-04-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Drake posted this on Instagram in response to an AI deepfake of himself rapping a song by Ice Spice, months before his own use of AI-cloned voices in a diss track.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2024/04/29/ai-deepfakes-drake-elon-musk-baltimore-principal", "title": "No one is safe from AI deepfakes—from Elon Musk to your local high school principal", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2024-04-29" } }, { "id": "2024-04-27-we-are-sitting-ducks", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-27-we-are-sitting-ducks", "text": "we are sitting ducks", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2024-04-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, in a Substack essay (April 2024), warning that without AI legislation from Congress the public is unprotected.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/we-cant-trust-the-fox-to-guard-the", "title": "We can’t trust the fox to guard the henhouse, especially when it comes to AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-04-27" } }, { "id": "2024-04-26-open-sourcing-improves-our-models", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-26-open-sourcing-improves-our-models", "text": "open sourcing improves our models", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2024-04-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Q1 2024 earnings call, defending the decision to make Llama 3 open source.", "source": { "url": "https://nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/metas-big-expensive-ai-bet-hinges-giving-models-away-free-rcna149426", "title": "Meta's big, expensive AI bet hinges on giving its models away for free", "publisher": "NBC News", "date": "2024-04-26" } }, { "id": "2024-04-24-every-time-someone-is-talking-about-agi-theyre-talking-about", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-24-every-time-someone-is-talking-about-agi-theyre-talking-about", "text": "every time someone is talking about AGI they're talking about vibes rather than reality", "speaker": "Nathan Lambert", "date": "2024-04-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "From an essay on Interconnects (April 2024) by Nathan Lambert questioning the meaning of AGI.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/agi-is-what-you-want-it-to-be", "title": "AGI is what you want it to be", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2024-04-24" } }, { "id": "2024-04-28-theological-questions-should-not-be-posed-to-a-computer", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-28-theological-questions-should-not-be-posed-to-a-computer", "text": "theological questions should not be posed to a computer", "speaker": "Peter Kwasniewski", "date": "2024-04-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Author and composer Peter Kwasniewski reacted on Twitter to the Catholic Answers AI chatbot 'Father Justin,' April 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/DrKwasniewski/status/1782875160325898539", "title": "Peter Kwasniewski on X", "publisher": "Peter Kwasniewski (X)", "date": "2024-04-23" } }, { "id": "2024-04-22-their-products-will-be-lame", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-22-their-products-will-be-lame", "text": "their products will be lame", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2024-04-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Zuckerberg, on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast in April 2024, explaining why Meta needs to pursue AGI-level AI for its products.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-llama-3-and-dwarkesh-patels-podcast", "title": "On Llama-3 and Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast with Zuckerberg", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2024-04-22" } }, { "id": "2024-04-21-they-literally-dont-know-the-difference-between-truth-and-fa", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-21-they-literally-dont-know-the-difference-between-truth-and-fa", "text": "they literally don't know the difference between truth and falsehood", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2024-04-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "science" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, on his Substack in April 2024, explaining why LLMs hallucinate compared to human errors.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/humans-versus-machines-the-hallucination", "title": "Humans versus Machines: The Hallucination Edition", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-04-21" } }, { "id": "2024-04-20-we-will-either-be-bored-out-of-our-minds-or-transform-oursel", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-20-we-will-either-be-bored-out-of-our-minds-or-transform-oursel", "text": "we will either be bored out of our minds or transform ourselves into pleasure blobs", "speaker": "Nick Bostrom", "date": "2024-04-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Philosopher Nick Bostrom, in his book Deep Utopia, on what humans might become once AI meets all needs and desires.", "source": { "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-deep-utopia-nick-bostrom-cockaigne-b2530807.html", "title": "How AI is forcing us to rethink the meaning of life", "publisher": "The Independent", "date": "2024-04-20" } }, { "id": "2024-04-20-were-moving-towards-both-rapidly", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-20-were-moving-towards-both-rapidly", "text": "we're moving towards both, rapidly", "speaker": "Nick Bostrom", "date": "2024-04-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Nick Bostrom, in an interview with The Independent, on whether AI is leading humanity toward utopia or dystopia.", "source": { "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-deep-utopia-nick-bostrom-cockaigne-b2530807.html", "title": "How AI is forcing us to rethink the meaning of life", "publisher": "The Independent", "date": "2024-04-20" } }, { "id": "2024-04-06-ai-is-cold-it-doesnt-love-us", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-06-ai-is-cold-it-doesnt-love-us", "text": "AI is cold, it doesn't love us", "original": "Die KI ist kalt, sie liebt uns nicht", "speaker": "Catrin Misselhorn", "date": "2024-04-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Catrin Misselhorn, AI philosopher researching machine ethics, in a 2024 Handelsblatt interview on emotional attachment to chatbots. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/ki/kuenstliche-intelligenz-catrin-misselhorn-die-ki-ist-kalt-sie-liebt-uns-nicht/100023609.html", "title": "Künstliche Intelligenz: Catrin Misselhorn – „Die KI ist kalt, sie liebt uns nicht“ - Handelsblatt", "publisher": "handelsblatt.com", "date": "2024-04-06" } }, { "id": "2024-04-06-that-is-just-a-metaphorical-use-of-the-word-love", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-06-that-is-just-a-metaphorical-use-of-the-word-love", "text": "that is just a metaphorical use of the word love", "original": "Das ist aber nur eine metaphorische Bezeichnung der Liebe", "speaker": "Catrin Misselhorn", "date": "2024-04-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Catrin Misselhorn, discussing whether chatbots can be emotional partners, in a 2024 Handelsblatt interview. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/ki/kuenstliche-intelligenz-catrin-misselhorn-die-ki-ist-kalt-sie-liebt-uns-nicht/100023609.html", "title": "Künstliche Intelligenz: Catrin Misselhorn – „Die KI ist kalt, sie liebt uns nicht“ - Handelsblatt", "publisher": "handelsblatt.com", "date": "2024-04-06" } }, { "id": "2024-04-04-habsburg-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-04-habsburg-ai", "text": "Habsburg AI", "speaker": "Jathan Sadowski", "date": "2024-04-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Political economist Jathan Sadowski's term, cited in a Globe and Mail opinion piece by Kean Birch (2024), for AI models trained heavily on other AIs' outputs.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-generative-artificial-intelligence-is-simply-a-waste-of-our-time-and", "title": "Opinion: Generative artificial intelligence is simply a waste of our time and money", "publisher": "The Globe and Mail", "date": "2024-04-04" } }, { "id": "2024-04-04-an-inbred-mutant-likely-with-exaggerated-grotesque-feature", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-04-an-inbred-mutant-likely-with-exaggerated-grotesque-feature", "text": "an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque feature", "speaker": "Jathan Sadowski", "date": "2024-04-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Jathan Sadowski describing 'Habsburg AI', models trained on the outputs of other generative AIs, quoted in a 2024 Globe and Mail opinion column.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-generative-artificial-intelligence-is-simply-a-waste-of-our-time-and", "title": "Opinion: Generative artificial intelligence is simply a waste of our time and money", "publisher": "The Globe and Mail", "date": "2024-04-04" } }, { "id": "2024-04-02-we-dont-need-to-be-mystified-of-our-own-activity-and-then-te", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-02-we-dont-need-to-be-mystified-of-our-own-activity-and-then-te", "text": "we don't need to be mystified of our own activity and then terrified of ourselves", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2024-04-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From an essay by Jaron Lanier in USC Annenberg's Relevance Report, arguing for a 'Data Dignity' framing of AI as human collaboration rather than an autonomous creature.", "source": { "url": "https://annenberg.usc.edu/research/center-public-relations/usc-annenberg-relevance-report/artificial-intelligence-gets-better", "title": "Artificial Intelligence gets better when you turn it upside down - USC Annenberg", "publisher": "annenberg.usc.edu", "date": "2024-04-02" } }, { "id": "2024-04-02-it-is-not-here-to-replace-people", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-04-02-it-is-not-here-to-replace-people", "text": "it is not here to replace people", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2024-04-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier describing AI as a form of collaboration between people rather than a replacement for them, in a 2024 USC Annenberg essay.", "source": { "url": "https://annenberg.usc.edu/research/center-public-relations/usc-annenberg-relevance-report/artificial-intelligence-gets-better", "title": "Artificial Intelligence gets better when you turn it upside down - USC Annenberg", "publisher": "annenberg.usc.edu", "date": "2024-04-02" } }, { "id": "2024-03-31-gpt-4-kinda-sucks", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-31-gpt-4-kinda-sucks", "text": "GPT-4 kinda sucks", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2024-03-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman's remark about GPT-4 in a recent interview, quoted by Gary Marcus in a March 2024 essay questioning generative AI's sustainability.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/when-will-the-genai-bubble-burst", "title": "When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst? - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-03-31" } }, { "id": "2024-03-30-a-100b-llm-is-still-an-llm", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-30-a-100b-llm-is-still-an-llm", "text": "a $100B LLM is still an LLM", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2024-03-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, on his Substack in March 2024, criticizing the reported Microsoft-OpenAI 'Stargate' $100B project.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-second-worst-100b-investment", "title": "The Second Worst $100B Investment in The History of AI? - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-03-30" } }, { "id": "2024-03-29-they-get-rich-we-pay-the-price", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-29-they-get-rich-we-pay-the-price", "text": "they get rich, we pay the price", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2024-03-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "politics" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, writing on his Substack in March 2024, argued that AI companies profit while society bears the costs of generative AI's harms.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-race-between-positive-and-negative", "title": "The race between positive and negative applications of Generative AI is on – and not looking pretty", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-03-29" } }, { "id": "2024-03-28-ftx", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-28-ftx", "text": "FTX", "date": "2024-03-28", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Crypto exchange whose collapse in 2022 took the movement's biggest donor with it.", "source": { "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/samuel-bankman-fried-sentenced-25-years-prison", "title": "Samuel Bankman-Fried Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison", "publisher": "U.S. Department of Justice", "date": "2024-03-28" } }, { "id": "2024-03-28-this-is-the-first-time-my-p-doom-has-gone-down-sharply-since", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-28-this-is-the-first-time-my-p-doom-has-gone-down-sharply-since", "text": "this is the first time my p(doom) has gone down sharply since the release of gpt-3", "speaker": "Janus", "date": "2024-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Janus, an AI researcher, commented on Twitter/X in March 2024 about their reaction to Claude 3's release.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-57-all-the-ai-news-thats-fit-to", "title": "AI #57: All the AI News That's Fit to Print", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2024-03-28" } }, { "id": "2024-03-29-hes-like-taylor-swift-but-for-tech", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-29-hes-like-taylor-swift-but-for-tech", "text": "he's like Taylor Swift, but for tech", "speaker": "Mark Zuckerberg", "date": "2024-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Mark Zuckerberg replying on Instagram in March 2024 to a user who asked who he was standing with in a photo with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2024/03/28/mark-zuckerberg-jensen-huang-taylor-swift-tech/", "title": "Mark Zuckerberg: Jensen Huang is the 'Taylor Swift' of tech", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2024-03-28" } }, { "id": "2024-03-28-these-domestic-policies-will-serve-as-a-model-for-global-act", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-28-these-domestic-policies-will-serve-as-a-model-for-global-act", "text": "these domestic policies will serve as a model for global action", "speaker": "Kamala Harris", "date": "2024-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Vice President Kamala Harris, announcing a new White House policy requiring federal agencies to name chief AI officers, March 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-chief-ai-officers-federal-agencies-artificial-intelligence", "title": "White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2024-03-28" } }, { "id": "2024-03-28-algorithms-can-discriminate", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-28-algorithms-can-discriminate", "text": "algorithms can discriminate", "speaker": "Safiya Noble", "date": "2024-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Safiya Noble, UCLA professor and author of 'Algorithms of Oppression,' in a 2024 interview about bias in search engines and AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/how-ai-discriminates-and-what-means-your-google-habit-conversation-internet-studies-scholar", "title": "How AI discriminates and what that means for your Google habit: A conversation with internet studies scholar Safiya Noble", "publisher": "University of California", "date": "2024-03-28" } }, { "id": "2024-03-28-products-that-are-not-ready-for-prime-time", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-28-products-that-are-not-ready-for-prime-time", "text": "products that are not ready for prime time", "speaker": "Safiya Noble", "date": "2024-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Safiya Noble, UCLA professor, describing generative AI tools released by tech companies, in a 2024 interview.", "source": { "url": "https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/how-ai-discriminates-and-what-means-your-google-habit-conversation-internet-studies-scholar", "title": "How AI discriminates and what that means for your Google habit: A conversation with internet studies scholar Safiya Noble", "publisher": "University of California", "date": "2024-03-28" } }, { "id": "2024-03-27-that-science-fair-phase-needs-to-end", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-27-that-science-fair-phase-needs-to-end", "text": "that science fair phase needs to end", "speaker": "Kai-Fu Lee", "date": "2024-03-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Kai-Fu Lee, chairman of Sinovation Ventures, speaking at the Fortune Innovation forum in Hong Kong, March 2024, on LLM startups prioritizing research over commercialization.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/asia/2024/03/27/china-ai-kai-fu-lee-warns-investor-reckoning-unprofitable-ai-companies", "title": "Leading China VC Kai-Fu Lee warns an investor reckoning is coming for unprofitable AI companies", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2024-03-27" } }, { "id": "2024-03-29-in-satya-we-trust", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-29-in-satya-we-trust", "text": "in Satya we trust", "speaker": "Emad Mostaque", "date": "2024-03-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque's tweet about Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's dominance in AI, March 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/EMostaque/status/1772611795141685506", "title": "Emad Mostaque on X", "publisher": "Emad Mostaque (X)", "date": "2024-03-26" } }, { "id": "2024-03-30-we-wont-need-sara-anymore", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-30-we-wont-need-sara-anymore", "text": "we won't need Sara anymore", "date": "2024-03-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Email from a production company to voice actress Sara Poyzer, informing her the BBC had approved an AI-generated voice instead of hers, March 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/SaraPoyzer/status/1772758518233248242", "title": "Sara Poyzer on X", "publisher": "Sara Poyzer (X)", "date": "2024-03-26" } }, { "id": "2024-03-26-ai-must-not-replace-human-beings", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-26-ai-must-not-replace-human-beings", "text": "AI must not replace human beings", "original": "KI darf den Menschen nicht ersetzen", "speaker": "Alena Buyx", "date": "2024-03-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Alena Buyx, chair of the German Ethics Council, speaking at a Süddeutsche Zeitung health forum on AI in medicine, March 2024. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/alena-buyx-ethikrat-ki-medizin-1.6491588", "title": "\"KI darf den Menschen nicht ersetzen\" - SZ.de", "publisher": "Süddeutsche.de", "date": "2024-03-26" } }, { "id": "2024-03-26-a-mixture-of-horror-and-savior", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-26-a-mixture-of-horror-and-savior", "text": "a mixture of horror and savior", "original": "Horror und Heilsbringer", "speaker": "Alena Buyx", "date": "2024-03-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "hype" ], "context": "Alena Buyx describing AI as a dual-use technology at a Süddeutsche Zeitung health forum on AI in medicine, March 2024. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/alena-buyx-ethikrat-ki-medizin-1.6491588", "title": "\"KI darf den Menschen nicht ersetzen\" - SZ.de", "publisher": "Süddeutsche.de", "date": "2024-03-26" } }, { "id": "2024-03-25-it-had-the-air-of-certainty-but-it-was-just-offering-a-myth", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-03-25-it-had-the-air-of-certainty-but-it-was-just-offering-a-myth", "text": "it had the air of certainty, but it was just offering a myth", "speaker": "Peter Singer", "date": "2024-03-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Peter Singer, professor at Arizona State University, in a 2024 Asahi Shimbun interview, describing an AI chatbot hallucinating sports game details.", "source": { "url": "https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15209132", "title": "INTERVIEW/ Peter Singer: Humans must be held responsible for decisions AI weapons make - 朝日新聞", "publisher": "The Asahi Shimbun", "date": "2024-03-25" } }, { "id": "2024-02-29-we-see-ourselves-as-agi-sherpas", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-29-we-see-ourselves-as-agi-sherpas", "text": "we see ourselves as AGI sherpas", "speaker": "Aliisa Rosenthal", "date": "2024-02-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "An OpenAI sales team leader, quoted in a February 2024 interview, describing how her team frames its role in customer adoption of AGI.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-53-one-more-leap", "title": "AI #53: One More Leap", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2024-02-29" } }, { "id": "2024-02-28-the-brain-is-an-existence-proof-that-general-intelligence-is", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-28-the-brain-is-an-existence-proof-that-general-intelligence-is", "text": "the brain is an existence proof that general intelligence is possible at all", "speaker": "Demis Hassabis", "date": "2024-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, discussing neuroscience and AI on the Dwarkesh Podcast, February 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://dwarkesh.com/p/demis-hassabis", "title": "Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold", "publisher": "dwarkesh.com", "date": "2024-02-28" } }, { "id": "2024-02-27-for-over-30-years-ive-heard-xyz-will-kill-coding", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-27-for-over-30-years-ive-heard-xyz-will-kill-coding", "text": "for over 30 years, i've heard 'XYZ will kill coding'", "speaker": "Patrick Moorhead", "date": "2024-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Industry analyst Patrick Moorhead responding to Jensen Huang's claim that AI ends the need to teach kids to code, 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://theregister.com/software/2024/02/27/jensen-huang-says-ai-is-ending-era-of-teaching-kids-to-code/984196", "title": "Jensen Huang says AI is ending era of teaching kids to code - The Register", "publisher": "theregister", "date": "2024-02-27" } }, { "id": "2024-02-27-true-gain-of-function-art", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-27-true-gain-of-function-art", "text": "true gain-of-function art", "speaker": "Grimes", "date": "2024-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Grimes commenting on Twitter about the Google Gemini image generation controversy, calling it accidental performance art, February 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-gemini-incident-continues", "title": "The Gemini Incident Continues", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2024-02-27" } }, { "id": "2024-02-29-thats-completely-unacceptable-and-we-got-it-wrong", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-29-thats-completely-unacceptable-and-we-got-it-wrong", "text": "that's completely unacceptable and we got it wrong", "speaker": "Sundar Pichai", "date": "2024-02-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in a letter to staff published by Semafor on February 27, 2024, addressing biased and inaccurate Gemini AI image outputs.", "source": { "url": "https://www.semafor.com/article/02/27/2024/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-calls-ai-tools-responses-completely-unacceptable", "title": "Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls AI tool's responses 'completely unacceptable'", "publisher": "Semafor", "date": "2024-02-27" } }, { "id": "2024-02-26-itll-go-not-just-fine-itll-go-really-really-great", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-26-itll-go-not-just-fine-itll-go-really-really-great", "text": "it'll go not just fine, it'll go really, really great", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2024-02-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "safety" ], "context": "Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, on the possibility AI does not destroy humanity, quoted in a 2024 profile of the company's funding.", "source": { "url": "https://seattletimes.com/business/inside-the-funding-frenzy-at-anthropic-one-of-ais-hottest-startups", "title": "Inside the funding frenzy at Anthropic, one of AI’s hottest startups", "publisher": "The Seattle Times", "date": "2024-02-26" } }, { "id": "2024-02-22-we-dont-know-why-they-make-decisions-and-neither-do-they", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-22-we-dont-know-why-they-make-decisions-and-neither-do-they", "text": "we don't know why they make decisions and neither do they", "speaker": "Erik J. Larson", "date": "2024-02-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "science" ], "context": "From an essay by Erik J. Larson on Mind Matters (2024) arguing that current AI systems are opaque even to their creators.", "source": { "url": "https://mindmatters.ai/2024/02/if-ais-dont-know-what-theyre-doing-can-we-hope-to-explain-it/", "title": "If AI's Don't Know What They're Doing, Can We Hope to Explain It?", "publisher": "Mind Matters (Erik J. Larson)", "date": "2024-02-22" } }, { "id": "2024-02-22-doesnt-have-anything-to-do-with-education-except-undermining", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-22-doesnt-have-anything-to-do-with-education-except-undermining", "text": "doesn't have anything to do with education except undermining it", "speaker": "Noam Chomsky", "date": "2024-02-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Noam Chomsky, quoted in National Jurist (2024), on ChatGPT's role in education.", "source": { "url": "https://nationaljurist.com/how-ai-is-changing-lawyering", "title": "How AI is changing lawyering", "publisher": "National Jurist", "date": "2024-02-22" } }, { "id": "2024-02-19-the-most-spectacular-developments-in-ai-currently-happen-in-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-19-the-most-spectacular-developments-in-ai-currently-happen-in-", "text": "the most spectacular developments in AI currently happen in areas where we need it least", "original": "Die aufsehenerregendsten Entwicklungen der KI finden derzeit oft in Bereichen statt, in denen wir sie am wenigsten benötigen", "speaker": "Catrin Misselhorn", "date": "2024-02-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Philosopher Catrin Misselhorn, in a 2024 interview on AI and work ethics, argued that AI's most striking progress targets creative and social work that people enjoy doing. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.humanresourcesmanager.de/future-of-work/wie-veraendert-sich-die-arbeitsmoral-durch-ki", "title": "Wie verändert sich die Arbeitsmoral durch KI?", "publisher": "Human Resources Manager", "date": "2024-02-19" } }, { "id": "2024-02-28-everyone-in-the-world-is-a-programmer-today", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-28-everyone-in-the-world-is-a-programmer-today", "text": "everybody in the world is now a programmer", "speaker": "Jensen Huang", "date": "2024-02-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "hype" ], "context": "Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, on how AI turns everyone into a programmer.", "source": { "url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/world-governments-summit/", "title": "NVIDIA CEO: Every Country Needs Sovereign AI", "publisher": "NVIDIA Blog", "date": "2024-02-12" } }, { "id": "2024-02-06-chatgpt-was-a-giant-social-experiment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-06-chatgpt-was-a-giant-social-experiment", "text": "chatgpt was a giant social experiment", "original": "Chat-GPT war ein riesiges Sozialexperiment", "speaker": "Judith Simon", "date": "2024-02-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Judith Simon, philosopher and ethics professor at University of Hamburg, speaking at the Munich Economic Debates in February 2024 about ChatGPT's release. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/computer-openai-kuenstliche-intelligenz-software-ki-judith-simon-1.6344688", "title": "KI-Ethik: Judith Simon über Chat-GPT und konservative KI - Wirtschaft - SZ.de - SZ.de", "publisher": "Süddeutsche.de", "date": "2024-02-06" } }, { "id": "2024-02-06-we-are-being-boxed-in", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-06-we-are-being-boxed-in", "text": "we are being boxed in", "original": "Wir werden eingekastelt", "speaker": "Judith Simon", "date": "2024-02-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Judith Simon, member of the German Ethics Council, in a lecture on AI and data-driven classification of people, Munich, February 2024. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/computer-openai-kuenstliche-intelligenz-software-ki-judith-simon-1.6344688", "title": "KI-Ethik: Judith Simon über Chat-GPT und konservative KI - Wirtschaft - SZ.de - SZ.de", "publisher": "Süddeutsche.de", "date": "2024-02-06" } }, { "id": "2024-02-06-ai-is-an-inherently-conservative-instrument", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-06-ai-is-an-inherently-conservative-instrument", "text": "AI is an inherently conservative instrument", "original": "KI ist ein inhärent konservatives Instrument", "speaker": "Judith Simon", "date": "2024-02-06", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Philosopher Judith Simon at the Munich Economic Debates, February 2024, arguing that AI learns from old data and projects it into the future. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/computer-openai-kuenstliche-intelligenz-software-ki-judith-simon-1.6344688", "title": "KI-Ethik: Judith Simon über Chat-GPT und konservative KI - Wirtschaft - SZ.de - SZ.de", "publisher": "Süddeutsche.de", "date": "2024-02-06" } }, { "id": "2024-02-01-a-lumbering-statistical-engine-for-pattern-matching", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-01-a-lumbering-statistical-engine-for-pattern-matching", "text": "a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching", "speaker": "Noam Chomsky", "date": "2024-02-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Linguist Noam Chomsky's description of large language models like ChatGPT, cited in a 2024 MIT Technology Review article on AI language learning research.", "source": { "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/01/1087527/baby-ai-language-camera", "title": "This baby with a head camera helped teach an AI how kids learn language", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2024-02-01" } }, { "id": "2024-02-01-that-for-me-really-does-shake-up-my-worldview", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-01-that-for-me-really-does-shake-up-my-worldview", "text": "that, for me, really does shake up my worldview", "speaker": "Jess Sullivan", "date": "2024-02-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "Developmental psychologist Jess Sullivan commenting on a study showing an AI model could learn word-object associations from a toddler's headcam footage.", "source": { "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/01/1087527/baby-ai-language-camera", "title": "This baby with a head camera helped teach an AI how kids learn language", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2024-02-01" } }, { "id": "2024-01-31-no-artist-died-making-this", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-31-no-artist-died-making-this", "text": "no artist died making this", "speaker": "Dan Potter", "date": "2024-01-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Dan Potter, creative director at Creative Works London, discussing the AI-generated Guns N' Roses video 'The General' in a 2024 Decrypt interview.", "source": { "url": "https://decrypt.co/215062/how-guns-n-roses-used-ai-create-wild-new-music-video-general", "title": "How Guns N' Roses Used AI to Create Wild New Music Video 'The General'", "publisher": "Decrypt", "date": "2024-01-31" } }, { "id": "2024-01-30-i-would-really-want-my-14-year-old-to-use-these-tools", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-30-i-would-really-want-my-14-year-old-to-use-these-tools", "text": "i would really want my 14-year-old to use these tools", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2024-01-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman discussing teen use of AI tools at the Common Sense Media summit in San Francisco, January 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://abc7news.com/post/openai-ceo-sam-altman-hillary-clinton-teen-health-san-francisco-pier-27-summit/14371040", "title": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Hillary Clinton respond at SF summit to study that finds 60% of families 'losing faith' about policy", "publisher": "ABC7 San Francisco", "date": "2024-01-30" } }, { "id": "2024-01-27-a-great-ai-disappointment", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-27-a-great-ai-disappointment", "text": "a great AI disappointment", "speaker": "Daron Acemoglu", "date": "2024-01-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, writing in WIRED, predicted underwhelming AI performance despite grand promises.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-got-99-problems-and-twitch", "title": "OpenAI’s Got 9.9 Problems, and Twitch Ain’t One - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-01-27" } }, { "id": "2024-01-27-such-wisdom-cannot-be-sought-from-machines", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-27-such-wisdom-cannot-be-sought-from-machines", "text": "such wisdom cannot be sought from machines", "speaker": "Pope Francis", "date": "2024-01-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Pope Francis, in his message ahead of World Day of Social Communications, January 2024, writing on artificial intelligence and human wisdom.", "source": { "url": "https://catholicvote.org/pope-francis-warns-about-dangers-of-artificial-intelligence", "title": "Pope Francis Warns About Dangers of Artificial Intelligence", "publisher": "CatholicVote org", "date": "2024-01-27" } }, { "id": "2024-01-27-we-will-become-fodder-for-algorithms-or-will-nourish-our-hea", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-27-we-will-become-fodder-for-algorithms-or-will-nourish-our-hea", "text": "we will become fodder for algorithms or will nourish our hearts with that freedom", "speaker": "Pope Francis", "date": "2024-01-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Pope Francis, in his message ahead of World Day of Social Communications, January 2024, on the choice between algorithmic control and human freedom.", "source": { "url": "https://catholicvote.org/pope-francis-warns-about-dangers-of-artificial-intelligence", "title": "Pope Francis Warns About Dangers of Artificial Intelligence", "publisher": "CatholicVote org", "date": "2024-01-27" } }, { "id": "2024-01-25-errors-of-discomprehension", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-25-errors-of-discomprehension", "text": "errors of discomprehension", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2024-01-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Gary Marcus's term for baffling failures of neural network systems, used in his January 2024 Substack post about AI image generation mistakes.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/wheres-waldo-the-elephant-in-the", "title": "Where’s Waldo? The Elephant in the Room - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2024-01-25" } }, { "id": "2024-01-25-human-beings-must-control-the-machines-instead-of-having-the", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-25-human-beings-must-control-the-machines-instead-of-having-the", "text": "human beings must control the machines instead of having the machines control us", "speaker": "Li Qiang", "date": "2024-01-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Chinese Premier Li Qiang speaking on AI governance at Davos, January 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-48-the-talk-of-davos", "title": "AI #48: The Talk of Davos", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2024-01-25" } }, { "id": "2024-01-25-rich-in-technology-and-poor-in-humanity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-25-rich-in-technology-and-poor-in-humanity", "text": "rich in technology and poor in humanity", "speaker": "Pope Francis", "date": "2024-01-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From Pope Francis's 2024 World Communications Day message, describing the current historical moment in relation to AI.", "source": { "url": "https://therecord.com.au/news/international/pope-francis-proper-use-of-ai-requires-human-wisdom-human-heart", "title": "Pope Francis: Proper use of AI requires human wisdom, human heart - therecord.com.au", "publisher": "The Record", "date": "2024-01-25" } }, { "id": "2024-01-23-ais-inbuilt-tendency-toward-uncontrolled-spread", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-23-ais-inbuilt-tendency-toward-uncontrolled-spread", "text": "AI's inbuilt tendency toward uncontrolled spread", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2024-01-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "From Suleyman's 2024 Foreign Affairs essay 'Containment for AI,' describing AI's tendency to proliferate.", "source": { "url": "https://foreignaffairs.com/world/containment-artificial-intelligence-mustafa-suleyman", "title": "Mustafa Suleyman: Containment for AI", "publisher": "Foreign Affairs", "date": "2024-01-23" } }, { "id": "2024-01-23-its-been-too-long-that-weve-had-to-learn-computers-language", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-23-its-been-too-long-that-weve-had-to-learn-computers-language", "text": "it's been too long that we've had to learn computers' language", "speaker": "Kai-Fu Lee", "date": "2024-01-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Kai-Fu Lee, founder of 01.AI, speaking over Zoom about his career motivation, January 2024.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/chinese-startup-01-ai-is-winning-the-open-source-ai-race", "title": "This Chinese Startup Is Winning the Open Source AI Race", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2024-01-23" } }, { "id": "2024-01-12-sleeper-agents", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-12-sleeper-agents", "text": "sleeper agents", "speaker": "Hubinger et al.", "date": "2024-01-12", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Models trained with hidden behaviour that survives safety training (Anthropic, January 2024).", "source": { "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566", "title": "Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training", "publisher": "arXiv", "date": "2024-01-12" } }, { "id": "2024-01-01-ai-slop", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-01-ai-slop", "text": "AI slop", "date": "2024-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Low-effort generated content flooding the web.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop", "title": "AI slop", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2024-01-01" } }, { "id": "2024-01-01-slop", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-01-01-slop", "text": "slop", "date": "2024-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop", "title": "AI slop", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2024-01-01" } }, { "id": "2023-12-30-it-wont-wipe-out-humanity-ai-could-wipe-out-humanity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-12-30-it-wont-wipe-out-humanity-ai-could-wipe-out-humanity", "text": "it won't wipe out humanity, AI could wipe out humanity", "speaker": "Jimmy Carr", "date": "2023-12-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Comedian Jimmy Carr, discussing Toby Ord's book The Precipice, told the Daily Star that AI poses a greater existential risk than climate change.", "source": { "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/jimmy-carr-fears-ai-wipe-31774048", "title": "Jimmy Carr fears AI will wipe out humanity after reading alarming book - The Mirror", "publisher": "Daily Mirror", "date": "2023-12-30" } }, { "id": "2023-12-28-would-never-have-signed-it-if-theyd-known", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-12-28-would-never-have-signed-it-if-theyd-known", "text": "would never have signed it if they'd known", "speaker": "Ramiro Rosário", "date": "2023-12-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Ramiro Rosário, a city councilman in Porto Alegre, Brazil, told the Wall Street Journal about colleagues unknowingly approving a bill drafted by ChatGPT in late 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-44-copyright-confrontation", "title": "AI #44: Copyright Confrontation", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-12-28" } }, { "id": "2023-12-22-machine-learning-sucks", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-12-22-machine-learning-sucks", "text": "machine learning sucks", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-12-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, in a December 2023 WIRED interview, explaining limits of current machine learning approaches.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-meta-yann-lecun-interview", "title": "How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2023-12-22" } }, { "id": "2023-12-22-then-its-my-good-ai-against-your-bad-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-12-22-then-its-my-good-ai-against-your-bad-ai", "text": "then it's my good AI against your bad AI", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-12-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, discussing open-source AI risks and countermeasures in a December 2023 WIRED interview.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-meta-yann-lecun-interview", "title": "How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2023-12-22" } }, { "id": "2023-12-21-gemini-please-set-the-ai-to-unhinged-thanks", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-12-21-gemini-please-set-the-ai-to-unhinged-thanks", "text": "Gemini please set the AI to unhinged thanks", "speaker": "Danielle Fong", "date": "2023-12-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Danielle Fong commented on social media about Gemini AI Studio's adjustable safety settings dial, December 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-43-functional-discoveries", "title": "AI #43: Functional Discoveries", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-12-21" } }, { "id": "2023-12-21-you-guys-need-to-develop-more-resistance-to-crazy-ai-hype-br", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-12-21-you-guys-need-to-develop-more-resistance-to-crazy-ai-hype-br", "text": "you guys need to develop more resistance to crazy AI hype bros", "speaker": "Roon", "date": "2023-12-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Roon, an OpenAI employee, responded on social media in December 2023 to rumors of a stealth GPT-4.5 launch.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-43-functional-discoveries", "title": "AI #43: Functional Discoveries", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-12-21" } }, { "id": "2023-12-20-there-are-many-many-human-workers-hidden-behind-the-screen", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-12-20-there-are-many-many-human-workers-hidden-behind-the-screen", "text": "there are many, many human workers hidden behind the screen", "speaker": "John P. Nelson", "date": "2023-12-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "John P. Nelson, Georgia Tech sociologist, writing in The Conversation (2023) on the hidden human labor behind AI chatbots.", "source": { "url": "https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-and-its-ai-chatbot-cousins-ruled-2023-4-essential-reads-that-puncture-the-hype-220035", "title": "ChatGPT and its AI chatbot cousins ruled 2023: 4 essential reads that puncture the hype", "publisher": "The Conversation", "date": "2023-12-20" } }, { "id": "2023-12-17-the-floor-is-just-flooded-with-gold", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-12-17-the-floor-is-just-flooded-with-gold", "text": "the floor is just flooded with gold", "speaker": "Daniel Gross", "date": "2023-12-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Daniel Gross, quoted via Stratechery in a ChinaTalk NeurIPS recap, December 2023, describing the current moment in AI research and investment.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/reflections-from-neurips-the-worlds", "title": "Reflections from NeurIPS, The World’s 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"text": "we don't want to teach robots to be biased", "speaker": "Jimmy Wales", "date": "2023-12-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Jimmy Wales, in a December 2023 Euronews Next interview, discussing bias in Wikipedia and its implications for AI models trained on it.", "source": { "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2023/12/09/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-says-ai-is-a-mess-now-but-can-become-superhuman-in-50-years", "title": "ChatGPT is 'terrible,' says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales - Euronews.com", "publisher": "euronews", "date": "2023-12-09" } }, { "id": "2023-12-05-ai-will-make-it-easier-for-bad-people-to-do-bad-things", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-12-05-ai-will-make-it-easier-for-bad-people-to-do-bad-things", "text": "AI will make it easier for bad people to do bad things", "speaker": "Marc Andreessen", "date": "2023-12-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and 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"https://businessinsider.com/elon-musk-thinks-openai-sam-altman-made-dangerous-ai-discovery-2023-11", "title": "Elon Musk says OpenAI may have made a dangerous discovery — and that's behind the Sam Altman drama", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2023-11-29" } }, { "id": "2023-11-27-i-for-one-did-not-elect-our-tech-overlords", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-11-27-i-for-one-did-not-elect-our-tech-overlords", "text": "i, for one, did not elect our tech overlords", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2023-11-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, in a November 2023 Substack essay on tech leaders making unilateral AI decisions, closing remark on Big Tech power.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/critical-national-security-questions", "title": "Critical national security questions should not be decided unilaterally by unelected tech leaders - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-11-27" } }, { "id": "2023-11-27-the-monopoly-and-domination-of-such-systems-such-alien-syste", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-11-27-the-monopoly-and-domination-of-such-systems-such-alien-syste", "text": "the monopoly and domination of such systems, such alien systems is unacceptable and dangerous", "speaker": "Vladimir Putin", "date": "2023-11-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Vladimir Putin, speaking at an AI conference in Moscow in November 2023 alongside Sberbank CEO German Gref, warned about Western dominance of AI systems.", "source": { "url": "https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/27/vladimir-putin-warns-alien-ai-cancelling-russian-culture-19884148", "title": "Putin warns 'alien' AI is cancelling Russian culture - Metro.co.uk", "publisher": "Metro", "date": "2023-11-27" } }, { "id": "2023-11-29-way-below-cat-level-intelligence-never-mind-human-level", "url": 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[ "culture" ], "context": "Silicon Valley's name for the weekend of 17 to 21 November 2023, when OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman and he was back within five days.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_OpenAI", "title": "Removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2023-11-17" } }, { "id": "2023-10-31-a-small-number-of-companies-will-control-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-31-a-small-number-of-companies-will-control-ai", "text": "a small number of companies will control AI", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-10-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, warned on X in October 2023 that fearmongering about AI risk would lead to concentration of AI control among a few companies.", "source": { "url": "https://cnbc.com/2023/10/31/google-deepmind-boss-hits-back-at-meta-ai-chief-over-fearmongering-claim.html", "title": "Google DeepMind boss 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"publisher": "NBC News", "date": "2023-10-30" } }, { "id": "2023-10-29-none-of-which-are-existential-none-of-which-are-doomsday-sce", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-29-none-of-which-are-existential-none-of-which-are-doomsday-sce", "text": "none of which are existential, none of which are doomsday scenarios", "speaker": "Aidan Gomez", "date": "2023-10-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere and co-author of the Transformer paper, speaking at the UK AI safety summit in 2023 about near-term AI risks versus existential ones.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/29/ai-doomsday-warnings-a-distraction-from-the-danger-it-already-poses-warns-expert", "title": "AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2023-10-29" } }, { "id": "2023-10-29-intelligence-has-nothing-to-do-with-a-desire-to-dominate", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-29-intelligence-has-nothing-to-do-with-a-desire-to-dominate", "text": "intelligence has nothing to do with a desire to dominate", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-10-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, dismissing existential AI fears in comments reported around the 2023 UK AI safety summit.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/29/ai-doomsday-warnings-a-distraction-from-the-danger-it-already-poses-warns-expert", "title": "AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2023-10-29" } }, { "id": "2023-10-26-i-dont-see-big-walls-in-front-of-us", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-26-i-dont-see-big-walls-in-front-of-us", "text": "i don't see big walls in front of us", "speaker": "Shane Legg", "date": "2023-10-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Shane Legg on the remaining obstacles to AGI, discussing model shortcomings like memory and factuality, Dwarkesh Podcast, October 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://dwarkesh.com/p/shane-legg", "title": "Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures", "publisher": "dwarkesh.com", "date": "2023-10-26" } }, { "id": "2023-10-26-you-dont-have-to-be-superintelligent-to-create-serious-probl", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-26-you-dont-have-to-be-superintelligent-to-create-serious-probl", "text": "you don't have to be superintelligent to create serious problems", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2023-10-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, in a 2023 Substack post arguing that AI risk should not be equated only with AGI or superintelligence risk.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-cern-for-ai-and-the-global-governance", "title": "A CERN for AI and the Global Governance of AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-10-26" } }, { "id": "2023-10-26-the-toys-have-changed-but-the-rules-of-the-game-have-not", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-26-the-toys-have-changed-but-the-rules-of-the-game-have-not", "text": "the toys have changed, but the rules of the game have not", "speaker": "Rumman Chowdhury", "date": "2023-10-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Rumman Chowdhury at the BRAID Responsible AI launch event, October 2023, on recurring narratives around AI and concentration of power.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-10-responsible-ai-trust-policy-ethics", "title": "5 things we learnt about the barriers we face and bridges we must build to ensure Responsible AI - BBC", "publisher": "bbc.co.uk", "date": "2023-10-26" } }, { "id": "2023-10-26-we-cant-afford-the-same-delay-with-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-26-we-cant-afford-the-same-delay-with-ai", "text": "we can't afford the same delay with AI", "speaker": "Demis Hassabis", "date": "2023-10-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind, in an interview with The Guardian, October 2023, comparing AI risk to climate change.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/24/ai-risk-climate-crisis-google-deepmind-chief-demis-hassabis-regulation", "title": "AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief", "publisher": "The Guardian", "date": "2023-10-24" } }, { "id": "2023-10-24-there-are-more-regulations-on-sandwich-shops-than-there-are-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-24-there-are-more-regulations-on-sandwich-shops-than-there-are-", "text": "there are more regulations on sandwich shops than there are on AI companies", "speaker": "Stuart Russell", "date": "2023-10-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley professor and co-author of a 2023 policy document signed by AI experts ahead of the Bletchley Park AI safety summit, on the lack of regulation for AI firms.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/24/ai-firms-must-be-held-responsible-for-harm-they-cause-godfathers-of-technology-say", "title": "AI firms must be held responsible for harm they cause, ‘godfathers’ of technology say", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2023-10-24" } }, { "id": "2023-10-24-increasing-their-capabilities-before-we-understand-how-to-ma", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-24-increasing-their-capabilities-before-we-understand-how-to-ma", "text": "increasing their capabilities before we understand how to make them safe is utterly reckless", "speaker": "Stuart Russell", "date": "2023-10-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley computer science professor, in a 2023 statement co-signed by AI 'godfathers' Hinton and Bengio ahead of the Bletchley Park summit.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/24/ai-firms-must-be-held-responsible-for-harm-they-cause-godfathers-of-technology-say", "title": "AI firms must be held responsible for harm they cause, ‘godfathers’ of technology say", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2023-10-24" } }, { "id": "2023-10-24-this-is-happening-right-now-and-it-needs-to-be-addressed-rig", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-24-this-is-happening-right-now-and-it-needs-to-be-addressed-rig", "text": "this is happening right now and it needs to be addressed right now", "speaker": "Dan Sexton", "date": "2023-10-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Dan Sexton, chief technology officer of the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation, speaking in October 2023 about the rise of AI-generated child sexual abuse images.", "source": { "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/10047047/ai-child-sex-abuse-images-internet-watchdog", "title": "AI-generated child sex abuse images will flood internet without action: watchdog", "publisher": "Global News", "date": "2023-10-24" } }, { "id": "2023-10-24-you-cant-regulate-what-people-are-doing-on-their-computers-i", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-24-you-cant-regulate-what-people-are-doing-on-their-computers-i", "text": "you can't regulate what people are doing on their computers, in their bedrooms", "speaker": "Dan Sexton", "date": "2023-10-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Dan Sexton of the Internet Watch Foundation on the difficulty of stopping misuse of open-source AI image generators for child sexual abuse material, October 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/10047047/ai-child-sex-abuse-images-internet-watchdog", "title": "AI-generated child sex abuse images will flood internet without action: watchdog", "publisher": "Global News", "date": "2023-10-24" } }, { "id": "2023-10-16-ai-is-our-alchemy-our-philosophers-stone", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-16-ai-is-our-alchemy-our-philosophers-stone", "text": "AI is our alchemy, our philosopher's stone", "speaker": "Marc Andreessen", "date": "2023-10-16", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Same manifesto.", "source": { "url": "https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/", "title": "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto", "publisher": "a16z", "date": "2023-10-16" } }, { "id": "2023-10-16-any-deceleration-of-ai-will-cost-lives", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-16-any-deceleration-of-ai-will-cost-lives", "text": "any deceleration of AI will cost lives", "speaker": "Marc Andreessen", "date": "2023-10-16", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype", "politics" ], "context": "From the Techno-Optimist Manifesto, October 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/", "title": "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto", "publisher": "a16z", "date": "2023-10-16" } }, { "id": "2023-10-16-techno-optimist", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-16-techno-optimist", "text": "techno-optimist", "speaker": "Marc Andreessen", "date": "2023-10-16", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "source": { "url": "https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/", "title": "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto", "publisher": "a16z", "date": "2023-10-16" } }, { "id": "2023-10-02-what-happens-to-musicians-now-happens-to-everybody-later", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-02-what-happens-to-musicians-now-happens-to-everybody-later", "text": "what happens to musicians now happens to everybody later", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2023-10-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, technologist and Microsoft prime unifying scientist, speaking at a 2023 tech and music conference about AI-generated content replacing musicians.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-jaron-lanier-ai-advancing-without-human-dignity-undermines-everything-2023-10", "title": "Microsoft's Jaron Lanier says AI advancing without human dignity will 'undermine everything', including reality", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2023-10-02" } }, { "id": "2023-10-02-flooded-flooded-with-ai-generated-music", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-10-02-flooded-flooded-with-ai-generated-music", "text": "flooded, flooded with AI-generated music", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2023-10-02", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier predicting the near future of generative AI music at a 2023 tech and music conference.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-jaron-lanier-ai-advancing-without-human-dignity-undermines-everything-2023-10", "title": "Microsoft's Jaron Lanier says AI advancing without human dignity will 'undermine everything', including reality", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2023-10-02" } }, { "id": "2023-09-29-that-ai-advantage-should-not-be-taken-for-granted", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-29-that-ai-advantage-should-not-be-taken-for-granted", "text": "that AI advantage should not be taken for granted", "speaker": "Paul Nakasone", "date": "2023-09-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "politics" ], "context": "NSA Director Paul Nakasone speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, September 2023, announcing the agency's new AI security center and warning about threats from China.", "source": { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/29/us-national-security-agency-unveils-artificial-intelligence-security-centre", "title": "US National Security Agency unveils artificial intelligence security centre", "publisher": "Al Jazeera", "date": "2023-09-29" } }, { "id": "2023-09-29-ai-helps-us-but-our-decisions-are-made-by-humans", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-29-ai-helps-us-but-our-decisions-are-made-by-humans", "text": "AI helps us, but our decisions are made by humans", "speaker": "Paul Nakasone", "date": "2023-09-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "NSA Director Paul Nakasone, September 2023, on the use of AI in intelligence and defense analysis, emphasizing human decision-making remains central.", "source": { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/29/us-national-security-agency-unveils-artificial-intelligence-security-centre", "title": "US National Security Agency unveils artificial intelligence security centre", "publisher": "Al Jazeera", "date": "2023-09-29" } }, { "id": "2023-09-28-i-never-thought-that-companies-were-voluntarily-going-to-pau", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-28-i-never-thought-that-companies-were-voluntarily-going-to-pau", "text": "i never thought that companies were voluntarily going to pause", "speaker": "Max Tegmark", "date": "2023-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Max Tegmark, MIT astrophysicist and Future of Life Institute lead, commenting on the effect of the AI pause letter he organized, in a WIRED article from September 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/fast-forward-elon-musk-letter-pause-ai-development", "title": "Six Months Ago Elon Musk Called for a Pause on AI. Instead Development Sped Up", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2023-09-28" } }, { "id": "2023-09-28-users-who-actually-get-better-arent-repeat-customers", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-28-users-who-actually-get-better-arent-repeat-customers", "text": "users who actually get better aren't repeat customers", "speaker": "Eliezer Yudkowsky", "date": "2023-09-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "money" ], "context": "Eliezer Yudkowsky, responding on social media in September 2023 to discussion of AI therapy applications from OpenAI and Anthropic.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-31-it-can-do-what-now", "title": "AI #31: It Can Do What Now?", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-09-28" } }, { "id": "2023-09-26-they-cant-pause-alone", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-26-they-cant-pause-alone", "text": "they can't pause alone", "speaker": "Max Tegmark", "date": "2023-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Max Tegmark, founder of the Future of Life Institute, speaking to MIT Technology Review in September 2023 about why AI companies won't unilaterally pause development.", "source": { "url": "https://technologyreview.com/2023/09/26/1080299/six-months-on-from-the-pause-letter", "title": "What’s changed since the “pause AI” letter six months ago?", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2023-09-26" } }, { "id": "2023-09-26-you-dont-tell-the-models-what-their-values-are-just-by-pouri", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-26-you-dont-tell-the-models-what-their-values-are-just-by-pouri", "text": "you don't tell the models what their values are just by pouring more compute into them", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2023-09-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Dario Amodei, in a Fortune Brainstorm Tech interview, explained why Anthropic pursued alignment alongside scaling large language models.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2023/09/26/anthropic-ceo-interview-quit-open-ai-amazon-investment/", "title": "Anthropic's CEO says why he quit his job at OpenAI to start a competitor that just received billions from Amazon and Google", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2023-09-26" } }, { "id": "2023-09-29-a-median-human-that-you-could-hire-as-a-co-worker", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-29-a-median-human-that-you-could-hire-as-a-co-worker", "text": "a median human that you could hire as a co-worker", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2023-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman describing his idea of AGI, quoted in Elizabeth Weil's New York Magazine profile, September 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-profile.html", "title": "Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age", "publisher": "New York Magazine", "date": "2023-09-25" } }, { "id": "2023-09-25-ai-is-a-surveillance-technology", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-25-ai-is-a-surveillance-technology", "text": "AI is a surveillance technology", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2023-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "politics" ], "context": "Signal president Meredith Whittaker speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 about the business model behind AI.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/signals-meredith-whittaker-ai-is-fundamentally-a-surveillance-technology", "title": "Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2023-09-25" } }, { "id": "2023-09-25-when-we-pull-back-the-curtain-theres-not-that-much-thats-int", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-25-when-we-pull-back-the-curtain-theres-not-that-much-thats-int", "text": "when we pull back the curtain there's not that much that's intelligent", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2023-09-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Meredith Whittaker, Signal president, discussing the human labor behind AI systems at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/signals-meredith-whittaker-ai-is-fundamentally-a-surveillance-technology", "title": "Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2023-09-25" } }, { "id": "2023-09-22-pointillistic-masses-of-blurry-memory", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-22-pointillistic-masses-of-blurry-memory", "text": "pointillistic masses of blurry memory", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2023-09-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "Gary Marcus describes neural networks' inability to generalize symmetrical relationships, in a 2023 Substack post discussing a new paper on LLM reasoning failures.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elegant-and-powerful-new-result-that", "title": "Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-09-22" } }, { "id": "2023-09-22-you-have-no-business-running-all-the-worlds-software", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-22-you-have-no-business-running-all-the-worlds-software", "text": "you have no business running all the world's software", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2023-09-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "safety" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, in a Substack post about a paper showing LLMs fail to infer that 'B is A' from 'A is B', argues this reasoning failure disqualifies such models from broad deployment.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elegant-and-powerful-new-result-that", "title": "Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-09-22" } }, { "id": "2023-09-20-ai-is-also-an-energy-guzzler", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-20-ai-is-also-an-energy-guzzler", "text": "AI is also an energy guzzler", "original": "Sie ist zugleich ein „Energiefresser“", "speaker": "Catrin Misselhorn", "date": "2023-09-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Philosopher Catrin Misselhorn, writing in Die Furche in 2023, notes that unlike solar power, AI is not inherently a sustainable technology. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.furche.at/wissen/ki-aufklaerung-oder-verdunkelung-11808538", "title": "KI: Aufklärung oder Verdunkelung? - Die Furche", "publisher": "KI: Aufklärung oder Verdunkelung? | DIE FURCHE", "date": "2023-09-20" } }, { "id": "2023-09-19-asl-3", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-19-asl-3", "text": "ASL-3", "date": "2023-09-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "AI Safety Level 3 in Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy.", "source": { "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/responsible-scaling-policy", "title": "Responsible Scaling Policy", "publisher": "Anthropic", "date": "2023-09-19" } }, { "id": "2023-09-19-asl-4", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-19-asl-4", "text": "ASL-4", "date": "2023-09-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "source": { "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/responsible-scaling-policy", "title": "Responsible Scaling Policy", "publisher": "Anthropic", "date": "2023-09-19" } }, { "id": "2023-09-19-cbrn", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-19-cbrn", "text": "CBRN", "date": "2023-09-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear: the risk categories in frontier-lab safety policies.", "source": { "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/responsible-scaling-policy", "title": "Responsible Scaling Policy", "publisher": "Anthropic", "date": "2023-09-19" } }, { "id": "2023-09-19-responsible-scaling", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-19-responsible-scaling", "text": "responsible scaling", "date": "2023-09-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "source": { "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/responsible-scaling-policy", "title": "Responsible Scaling Policy", "publisher": "Anthropic", "date": "2023-09-19" } }, { "id": "2023-09-03-an-increasingly-inescapable-house-of-mirrors", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-09-03-an-increasingly-inescapable-house-of-mirrors", "text": "an increasingly inescapable house of mirrors", "speaker": "David Bentley Hart", "date": "2023-09-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From David Bentley Hart's 2023 ABC Religion & Ethics essay comparing AI to the myth of Narcissus.", "source": { "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/religion/david-bentley-hart-narcissus-reflections-on-ai/102812590", "title": "When we look at Artificial Intelligence, do we see our own reflection? - ABC Religion & Ethics - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation", "publisher": "ABC Religion & Ethics", "date": "2023-09-03" } }, { "id": "2023-08-29-the-goal-of-the-companies-is-return-to-shareholders-not-to-r", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-08-29-the-goal-of-the-companies-is-return-to-shareholders-not-to-r", "text": "the goal of the companies is return to shareholders, not to return to humanity", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2023-08-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "money" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, writing on Substack in August 2023, on AI companies and regulatory capture.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-we-all-be-doomed-without-ranked", "title": "Could we all be doomed, without ranked-choice voting?", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-08-29" } }, { "id": "2023-08-28-we-are-in-the-process-of-creating-monsters-that-we-have-no-i", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-08-28-we-are-in-the-process-of-creating-monsters-that-we-have-no-i", "text": "we are in the process of creating monsters that we have no idea how to manage", "date": "2023-08-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "John Naughton, reviewing Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave in the Guardian, 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/28/the-coming-wave-by-mustafa-suleyman-review-ai-synthetic-biology-and-a-new-dawn-for-humanity", "title": "The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman review – AI, synthetic biology and a new dawn for humanity", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2023-08-28" } }, { "id": "2023-08-25-ai-psychosis", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-08-25-ai-psychosis", "text": "AI psychosis", "date": "2023-08-25", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "safety" ], "context": "Term for delusions fed by a chatbot that never contradicts. Søren Dinesen Østergaard, Aarhus, warned of it in 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/49/6/1411/7251361", "title": "Will Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Generate Delusions in Individuals Prone to Psychosis?", "publisher": "Schizophrenia Bulletin", "date": "2023-08-25" } }, { "id": "2023-08-25-have-we-learned-nothing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-08-25-have-we-learned-nothing", "text": "have we learned nothing?", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2023-08-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, on his Substack in August 2023, questioning US use of unreliable, biased AI surveillance tools while citing researchers who warned about such bias.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-us-and-china-want-different-things", "title": "The US and China want different things, right?", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-08-25" } }, { "id": "2023-08-25-we-would-never-do-that-right-right", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-08-25-we-would-never-do-that-right-right", "text": "we would never do that. right? right?", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2023-08-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, on his Substack in August 2023, commenting sarcastically on US use of AI surveillance tools while citing China as the justification for not regulating AI.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-us-and-china-want-different-things", "title": "The US and China want different things, right? - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-08-25" } }, { "id": "2023-08-24-this-is-priced-for-fantasy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-08-24-this-is-priced-for-fantasy", "text": "this is priced for fantasy", "speaker": "David Trainer", "date": "2023-08-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "David Trainer, founder of New Constructs, commented to Fortune after Nvidia's May 2023 stock rally.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2023/08/24/nvidia-earnings-jensen-huang-ai-hype-tech-stock-bull-market", "title": "Nvidia earnings hailed as historic moment for tech, but some warn A.I. is reaching fever pitch—‘this level of hype is dangerous’ - fortune.com", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2023-08-24" } }, { "id": "2023-08-14-no-we-have-not-made-gpt-4-dumber-on-the-contrary-we-make-eve", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-08-14-no-we-have-not-made-gpt-4-dumber-on-the-contrary-we-make-eve", "text": "no, we have not made GPT-4 dumber, on the contrary, we make every new version smarter than the last", "original": "Nein, wir haben GPT-4 nicht dümmer gemacht. Ganz im Gegenteil: Wir machen jede neue Version intelligenter als die vorherige.", "speaker": "Peter Welinder", "date": "2023-08-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "OpenAI's VP of product, Peter Welinder, responded on Twitter in 2023 to user complaints that GPT-4 had become less capable over time. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.mdr.de/wissen/ki-kuenstliche-intelligenz-chatgpt-dumm-code-interpreter-schlau-100.html", "title": "Gescheiter scheitern mit KI. Heute: ChatGPT ist dumm, der Code Interpreter hilft.", "publisher": "mdr.de", "date": "2023-08-14" } }, { "id": "2023-08-12-there-were-no-black-people-literally-no-black-people", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-08-12-there-were-no-black-people-literally-no-black-people", "text": "there were no Black people, literally no Black people", "speaker": "Timnit Gebru", "date": "2023-08-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Timnit Gebru, AI researcher, describing the lack of diversity at AI conferences, quoted in Rolling Stone, 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367", "title": "These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI", "publisher": "Rolling Stone", "date": "2023-08-12" } }, { "id": "2023-08-12-judgments-come-with-responsibilities-and-responsibility-lies", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-08-12-judgments-come-with-responsibilities-and-responsibility-lies", "text": "judgments come with responsibilities, and responsibility lies with humans", "speaker": "Joy Buolamwini", "date": "2023-08-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Joy Buolamwini, AI researcher, on facial recognition and accountability, quoted in Rolling Stone, 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367", "title": "These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI", "publisher": "Rolling Stone", "date": "2023-08-12" } }, { "id": "2023-07-31-no-chip-no-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-31-no-chip-no-ai", "text": "no chip, no AI", "date": "2023-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Line from a 2018 Tsinghua University report on the strategic importance of AI chips, cited in a CSIS analysis on US chip export controls to China.", "source": { "url": "https://csis.org/analysis/blocking-chinas-access-ai-chips-matters-us-national-security", "title": "Blocking China’s Access to AI Chips Matters to U.S. National Security - CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies", "publisher": "csis.org", "date": "2023-07-31" } }, { "id": "2023-07-31-proof-of-personhood", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-31-proof-of-personhood", "text": "proof of personhood", "date": "2023-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "security" ], "context": "Term used to describe Worldcoin's World ID system, which verifies a person is human via iris scan, as described in a Fortune/Bloomberg explainer, July 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2023/07/31/sam-altman-worldcoin-crypto-ai", "title": "OpenAI's Sam Altman links 2 hot tech trends with his new Worldcoin: artificial intelligence and crypto. But there's a lot more to the story - fortune.com", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2023-07-31" } }, { "id": "2023-07-31-sentience-is-for-rich-people", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-31-sentience-is-for-rich-people", "text": "sentience is for rich people", "date": "2023-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Title of a speculative short story in Jack Clark's Import AI newsletter, imagining a 2028 world where AI companions gate abilities behind paywalls.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-335-synth-data-is-a-bad", "title": "Import AI 335: Synth data is a bad AI drug; Facebook changes the internet with LLaMa release; and Chinese researchers use AI to figure out chip design", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2023-07-31" } }, { "id": "2023-07-31-without-emotion-empathy-and-a-moral-compass-you-have-created", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-31-without-emotion-empathy-and-a-moral-compass-you-have-created", "text": "without emotion, empathy and a moral compass, you have created the perfect psychopath", "speaker": "Guillaume Thierry", "date": "2023-07-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Guillaume Thierry, writing in The Conversation in 2023, argues against giving AI executive decision-making power.", "source": { "url": "https://theconversation.com/giving-ai-direct-control-over-anything-is-a-bad-idea-heres-how-it-could-do-us-real-harm-210168", "title": "Giving AI direct control over anything is a bad idea – here’s how it could do us real harm", "publisher": "The Conversation", "date": "2023-07-31" } }, { "id": "2023-07-28-it-just-does-not-make-sense-to-open-source", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-28-it-just-does-not-make-sense-to-open-source", "text": "it just does not make sense to open-source", "speaker": "Ilya Sutskever", "date": "2023-07-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder, told The Verge in 2023 that open-sourcing advanced AI models is a bad idea once AGI becomes possible.", "source": { "url": "https://vox.com/technology/2023/7/28/23809028/ai-artificial-intelligence-open-closed-meta-mark-zuckerberg-sam-altman-open-ai", "title": "Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model - vox.com", "publisher": "Vox", "date": "2023-07-28" } }, { "id": "2023-07-27-i-think-they-could-well-have-feelings", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-27-i-think-they-could-well-have-feelings", "text": "i think they could well have feelings", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2023-07-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, speaking at King's College London in 2023, discussing whether AI systems could have emotions like frustration and anger.", "source": { "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/can-ai-have-feelings-geoffrey-hinton-8863168", "title": "‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton explores the fascinating question: Can AI have feelings?", "publisher": "The Indian Express", "date": "2023-07-27" } }, { "id": "2023-07-26-a-grave-threat-to-u-s-national-security", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-26-a-grave-threat-to-u-s-national-security", "text": "a grave threat to U.S. national security", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2023-07-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "security" ], "context": "Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in July 2023 on AI's potential to enable bioweapons attacks.", "source": { "url": "https://foxnews.com/politics/ai-bioweapons-capabilities-bad-actors-safety-chief-warns-grave-threat", "title": "AI could deliver bioweapons capabilities to bad actors, safety chief warns: ‘Grave threat’", "publisher": "Fox News", "date": "2023-07-26" } }, { "id": "2023-07-26-private-action-is-not-enough", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-26-private-action-is-not-enough", "text": "private action is not enough", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2023-07-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Dario Amodei told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in July 2023 that AI risks require systemic policy responses, not just corporate safeguards.", "source": { "url": "https://foxnews.com/politics/ai-bioweapons-capabilities-bad-actors-safety-chief-warns-grave-threat", "title": "AI could deliver bioweapons capabilities to bad actors, safety chief warns: ‘Grave threat’", "publisher": "Fox News", "date": "2023-07-26" } }, { "id": "2023-07-25-designed-to-trick-you-to-make-you-think-youre-talking-to-som", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-25-designed-to-trick-you-to-make-you-think-youre-talking-to-som", "text": "designed to trick you, to make you think you're talking to someone who's not actually there", "speaker": "Colin Fraser", "date": "2023-07-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Colin Fraser, a data scientist at Meta, describing ChatGPT's conversational design, quoted in a 2023 Guardian article on Joseph Weizenbaum.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai", "title": "Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI | AI (artificial intelligence)", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2023-07-25" } }, { "id": "2023-07-22-no-stability-no-long-term-future-no-benefits", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-22-no-stability-no-long-term-future-no-benefits", "text": "no stability, no long-term future, no benefits", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2023-07-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Meredith Whittaker, on the podcast The Dig, describing how AI could turn unionized craft workers into gig-economy contractors.", "source": { "url": "https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/things-will-get-shittier-ai-and-the-dial-of-business-basiness", "title": "Things Will Get Shittier: AI and the Dial of Business Basiness", "publisher": "Los Angeles Review of Books", "date": "2023-07-22" } }, { "id": "2023-07-22-hyperscale-parroting", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-07-22-hyperscale-parroting", "text": "hyperscale parroting", "speaker": "Yves Bergquist", "date": "2023-07-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Yves Bergquist, director of AI & Neuroscience in Media at USC's Entertainment Technology Center, describing current large language models at a 2023 industry summit.", "source": { "url": "https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/things-will-get-shittier-ai-and-the-dial-of-business-basiness", "title": "Things Will Get Shittier: AI and the Dial of Business Basiness", "publisher": "Los Angeles Review of Books", "date": "2023-07-22" } }, { "id": "2023-06-30-theres-a-lot-of-stuff-on-the-horizon-and-we-arent-ready", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-30-theres-a-lot-of-stuff-on-the-horizon-and-we-arent-ready", "text": "there's a lot of stuff on the horizon and we aren't ready", "speaker": "Brendan McGuire", "date": "2023-06-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Father Brendan McGuire, advisor to the Vatican's Institute for Technology, Ethics, and Culture, describing what Silicon Valley executives told him, in a 2023 Gizmodo interview about the Pope's AI ethics handbook.", "source": { "url": "https://futurism.com/pope-guide-artificial-intelligence", "title": "The Pope Just Released a Guide to Artificial Intelligence", "publisher": "Futurism", "date": "2023-06-30" } }, { "id": "2023-06-30-major-guardrails-are-absolutely-necessary", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-30-major-guardrails-are-absolutely-necessary", "text": "major guardrails are absolutely necessary", "speaker": "Brendan McGuire", "date": "2023-06-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Father Brendan McGuire, advisor to the Vatican's ITEC, on the need for AI regulation, in a 2023 Gizmodo interview about the Pope's AI ethics guidebook.", "source": { "url": "https://futurism.com/pope-guide-artificial-intelligence", "title": "The Pope Just Released a Guide to Artificial Intelligence", "publisher": "Futurism", "date": "2023-06-30" } }, { "id": "2023-06-28-the-whole-history-of-ai-has-been-a-history-of-failed-predict", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-28-the-whole-history-of-ai-has-been-a-history-of-failed-predict", "text": "the whole history of AI has been a history of failed predictions", "speaker": "Melanie Mitchell", "date": "2023-06-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Melanie Mitchell, arguing against the resolution at the Munk Debates in June 2023, on predictions of existential AI risk.", "source": { "url": "https://thehub.ca/2023/06/28/most-audience-members-unwilling-to-change-their-minds-about-the-threats-posed-by-ai-at-the-munk-debates", "title": "AI poses an existential threat, according to Munk Debates crowd, although a few were persuaded otherwise - The Hub | More Signal. Less Noise.", "publisher": "thehub.ca", "date": "2023-06-28" } }, { "id": "2023-06-30-its-not-just-science-fiction-it-is-a-real-risk", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-30-its-not-just-science-fiction-it-is-a-real-risk", "text": "it's not just science fiction; it's not just fear-mongering – it is a real risk", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2023-06-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, speaking at the Collision technology conference in Toronto on June 28, 2023, on the risks of AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.utoronto.ca/news/risks-artificial-intelligence-must-be-considered-technology-evolves-geoffrey-hinton", "title": "Risks of artificial intelligence must be considered as the technology evolves: Geoffrey Hinton", "publisher": "University of Toronto", "date": "2023-06-28" } }, { "id": "2023-06-27-robots-are-not-evil", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-27-robots-are-not-evil", "text": "robots are not evil", "speaker": "Kerstin Dautenhahn", "date": "2023-06-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Kerstin Dautenhahn, robotics researcher at Waterloo University, told AFP in 2023 that AI was unlikely to give machines a desire to kill humans.", "source": { "url": "https://www.enca.com/business/will-ai-really-destroy-humanity", "title": "Will AI really destroy humanity?", "publisher": "eNCA", "date": "2023-06-27" } }, { "id": "2023-06-26-artificial-artificial-artificial-intelligence", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-26-artificial-artificial-artificial-intelligence", "text": "artificial artificial artificial intelligence", "date": "2023-06-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Title of an EPFL research paper on crowdworkers using large language models to complete text-production tasks, cited in Import AI 333, June 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-333-synthetic-data-makes", "title": "Import AI 333: Synthetic data makes models stupid; chatGPT eats MTurk. Inflection shows off a large language model", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2023-06-26" } }, { "id": "2023-06-22-no-one-person-should-be-trusted-here", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-22-no-one-person-should-be-trusted-here", "text": "no one person should be trusted here", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2023-06-22", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Altman at the Bloomberg Technology Summit, June 2023, asked why the public should trust him: \"You shouldn't. … No one person should be trusted here.\"", "source": { "url": "https://sfstandard.com/2023/06/22/chatgpt-creator-sam-altman-tells-san-francisco-crowd-he-cant-be-trusted/", "title": "ChatGPT creator Sam Altman tells San Francisco crowd he can't be trusted", "publisher": "The San Francisco Standard", "date": "2023-06-22" } }, { "id": "2023-06-22-these-systems-are-also-deployed-as-surveillance-devices", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-22-these-systems-are-also-deployed-as-surveillance-devices", "text": "these systems are also deployed as surveillance devices", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2023-06-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, speaking on an AI ethics panel at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco, June 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/22/get-a-clue-says-panel-about-generative-ai-its-being-deployed-as-surveillance-devices", "title": "Get a clue, says panel about buzzy AI tech: It’s being ‘deployed as surveillance’", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2023-06-22" } }, { "id": "2023-06-22-the-majority-of-the-population-is-the-subject-of-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-22-the-majority-of-the-population-is-the-subject-of-ai", "text": "the majority of the population is the subject of AI", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2023-06-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Meredith Whittaker speaking on an AI ethics panel at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco, June 2023, on who AI actually serves.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/22/get-a-clue-says-panel-about-generative-ai-its-being-deployed-as-surveillance-devices", "title": "Get a clue, says panel about buzzy AI tech: It’s being ‘deployed as surveillance’", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2023-06-22" } }, { "id": "2023-06-20-ghost-stories-are-contagious", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-20-ghost-stories-are-contagious", "text": "ghost stories are contagious", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2023-06-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, commenting on AI existential-risk discourse in a June 2023 MIT Technology Review article.", "source": { "url": "https://technologyreview.com/2023/06/20/1075075/metas-ai-leaders-want-you-to-know-fears-over-ai-existential-risk-are-ridiculous", "title": "Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2023-06-20" } }, { "id": "2023-06-20-preposterously-ridiculous", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-20-preposterously-ridiculous", "text": "preposterously ridiculous", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-06-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun describing the idea that a superintelligent AI system will take over the world, at Meta's Paris HQ, June 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://technologyreview.com/2023/06/20/1075075/metas-ai-leaders-want-you-to-know-fears-over-ai-existential-risk-are-ridiculous", "title": "Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2023-06-20" } }, { "id": "2023-06-20-a-superintelligent-ai-system-will-take-over-the-world-is-pre", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-20-a-superintelligent-ai-system-will-take-over-the-world-is-pre", "text": "a superintelligent AI system will take over the world is preposterously ridiculous", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-06-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, dismissing fears of superintelligent AI takeover during a 2023 interview in Paris.", "source": { "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/20/1075075/metas-ai-leaders-want-you-to-know-fears-over-ai-existential-risk-are-ridiculous", "title": "Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2023-06-20" } }, { "id": "2023-06-15-artificial-intelligence-should-be-more-like-the-talmud", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-15-artificial-intelligence-should-be-more-like-the-talmud", "text": "artificial intelligence should be more like the Talmud", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2023-06-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, computer scientist and Microsoft's Prime Unifying Scientist, in a 2023 interview with Calcalist describing his vision for how AI should be structured.", "source": { "url": "https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjgn800ddh", "title": "The Lanier sphere: \"Artificial intelligence should be more like the Talmud\"", "publisher": "ctech", "date": "2023-06-15" } }, { "id": "2023-06-15-people-are-the-answer-to-the-problems-of-bits", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-15-people-are-the-answer-to-the-problems-of-bits", "text": "people are the answer to the problems of bits", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2023-06-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Closing 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Yudkowsky", "date": "2023-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Yudkowsky describing the outcome of building superhumanly smart AI, quoted in a 2023 Conversation article skeptical of AI doom narratives.", "source": { "url": "https://theconversation.com/no-ai-probably-wont-kill-us-all-and-theres-more-to-this-fear-campaign-than-meets-the-eye-206614", "title": "No, AI probably won’t kill us all – and there’s more to this fear campaign than meets the eye", "publisher": "The Conversation", "date": "2023-05-31" } }, { "id": "2023-05-31-theres-a-small-likelihood-of-it-annihilating-humanity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-31-theres-a-small-likelihood-of-it-annihilating-humanity", "text": "there's a small likelihood of it annihilating humanity", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2023-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Elon Musk, quoted at a Wall Street Journal event and cited in a BBC article on AI risk, May 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://bbc.com/news/technology-65760449", "title": "AI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio feels 'lost' over life's work - BBC", "publisher": "bbc.com", "date": "2023-05-31" } }, { "id": "2023-05-31-whats-to-stop-dr-evil-building-general-purpose-ai-thats-goin", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-31-whats-to-stop-dr-evil-building-general-purpose-ai-thats-goin", "text": "what's to stop Dr. Evil building general purpose AI that's going to destroy the world?", "speaker": "Stuart Russell", "date": "2023-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley computer science professor, in a CNN Opinion interview published May 31, 2023, discussing risks of general purpose AI.", "source": { "url": "https://cnn.com/2023/05/31/opinions/artificial-intelligence-stuart-russell", "title": "Opinion: We’ve reached a turning point with AI, expert says", "publisher": "CNN", "date": "2023-05-31" } }, { "id": "2023-05-31-you-could-say-i-feel-lost", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-31-you-could-say-i-feel-lost", "text": "you could say i feel lost", "speaker": "Yoshua Bengio", "date": "2023-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Yoshua Bengio, AI pioneer, told the BBC in May 2023 about the emotional toll of realizing the risks of the technology he helped create.", "source": { "url": "https://bbc.com/news/technology-65760449", "title": "AI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio feels 'lost' over life's work - BBC", "publisher": "bbc.com", "date": "2023-05-31" } }, { "id": "2023-05-31-not-more-intelligent-than-us-as-far-as-i-can-tell-but-i-thin", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-31-not-more-intelligent-than-us-as-far-as-i-can-tell-but-i-thin", "text": "not more intelligent than us, as far as i can tell, but i think they soon may be", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2023-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "science" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI', speaking after resigning from Google in 2023 about the future capability of AI systems.", "source": { "url": "https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ai-apocalypse-life-robots-take-over-elon-musk-chatgpt-b1078423.html", "title": "AI is coming — so how afraid do we need to be? - London Evening Standard", "publisher": "The Standard", "date": "2023-05-31" } }, { "id": "2023-05-31-if-we-dont-control-our-own-civilisation-we-have-no-say-in-wh", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-31-if-we-dont-control-our-own-civilisation-we-have-no-say-in-wh", "text": "if we don't control our own civilisation, we have no say in whether we continue to exist", "speaker": "Stuart Russell", "date": "2023-05-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "AI researcher Stuart Russell, quoted in 2023 comparing the AI boom to humanity encountering an alien civilization.", "source": { "url": "https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ai-apocalypse-life-robots-take-over-elon-musk-chatgpt-b1078423.html", 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"2023-05-30" } }, { "id": "2023-05-30-the-most-common-reaction-by-ai-researchers-to-these-propheci", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-30-the-most-common-reaction-by-ai-researchers-to-these-propheci", "text": "the most common reaction by AI researchers to these prophecies of doom is face palming", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-05-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Yann LeCun tweeted this in response to warnings that AI could cause human extinction, May 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://bbc.com/news/uk-65746524", "title": "Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn - BBC", "publisher": "bbc.com", "date": "2023-05-30" } }, { "id": "2023-05-30-this-is-not-science-fiction", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-30-this-is-not-science-fiction", "text": "this is not science fiction", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2023-05-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, in an interview with the Washington Post in May 2023, discussing the timeline for superintelligent AI.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2023/05/30/sam-altman-ai-risk-of-extinction-pandemics-nuclear-warfare", "title": "AI poses a 'risk of extinction' to humanity, Sam Altman warns - fortune.com", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2023-05-30" } }, { "id": "2023-05-29-we-dont-know-how-to-stop-the-meteorite-we-have-created", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-29-we-dont-know-how-to-stop-the-meteorite-we-have-created", "text": "we don't know how to stop the meteorite we have created", "speaker": "Max Tegmark", "date": "2023-05-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Max Tegmark, MIT professor and president of the Future of Life Institute, speaking about AI risk, quoted in EL PAÍS, 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-05-29/very-human-questions-about-artificial-intelligence.html", "title": "Very human questions about artificial intelligence", "publisher": "EL PAÍS English", "date": "2023-05-29" } }, { "id": "2023-05-27-each-query-is-effectively-around-a-half-liter-of-water-poure", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-27-each-query-is-effectively-around-a-half-liter-of-water-poure", "text": "each query is effectively around a half liter of water poured into the ground", "speaker": "Kate Crawford", "date": "2023-05-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "AI researcher Kate Crawford, in a 2023 EL PAÍS interview, describing the environmental cost of generative AI queries.", "source": { "url": "https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-05-27/kate-crawford-we-need-to-have-a-much-more-comprehensive-form-of-ai-governance.html", "title": "Kate Crawford: ‘We need to have a much more comprehensive form of AI governance’", "publisher": "EL PAÍS English", "date": "2023-05-27" } }, { "id": "2023-05-26-im-not-even-sure-that-were-in-the-car", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-26-im-not-even-sure-that-were-in-the-car", "text": "i'm not even sure that we're in the car", "speaker": "Brad Smith", "date": "2023-05-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "culture" ], "context": "Microsoft President Brad Smith, speaking to lawmakers in Washington in May 2023, rejecting the idea that Microsoft was steering the development of AI.", "source": { "url": "https://politico.eu/article/big-tech-rumble-europe-global-artificial-intelligence-debate-ai-pact", "title": "Europe pitches ‘AI Pact’ to curtail the booming tech’s risks - politico.eu", "publisher": "POLITICO", "date": "2023-05-26" } }, { "id": "2023-05-26-we-have-no-idea-how-we-may-one-day-generate-revenue", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-26-we-have-no-idea-how-we-may-one-day-generate-revenue", "text": "we have no idea how we may one day generate revenue", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2023-05-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "Sam 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Lessons from Jiu-Jitsu Innovation and for S&T Policy", "publisher": "chinatalk.media", "date": "2023-05-26" } }, { "id": "2023-05-26-why-do-we-have-microsoft-research-at-all", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-26-why-do-we-have-microsoft-research-at-all", "text": "why do we have Microsoft Research at all?", "speaker": "Satya Nadella", "date": "2023-05-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Satya Nadella, reacting to a briefing on GPT-4's capabilities, questioning Microsoft's own research investment, as reported by The Information, December 2022.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/openai-how-did-they-do-it-lessons", "title": "OpenAI: How Do They Do It? Lessons from Jiu-Jitsu Innovation and for S&T Policy", "publisher": "chinatalk.media", "date": "2023-05-26" } }, { "id": "2023-05-26-its-the-hollywood-ification-of-the-publics-understanding-of-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-26-its-the-hollywood-ification-of-the-publics-understanding-of-", "text": "it's the Hollywood-ification of the public's understanding of AI", "speaker": "Nick Diakopoulos", "date": "2023-05-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Nick Diakopoulos, a communication and computer science professor at Northwestern University, commented in a 2023 CJR article on sensationalist media coverage of ChatGPT.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/media-coverage-chatgpt.php", "title": "How the media is covering ChatGPT", "publisher": "Columbia Journalism Review", "date": "2023-05-26" } }, { "id": "2023-06-29-theres-a-non-zero-chance-of-it-going-terminator", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-29-theres-a-non-zero-chance-of-it-going-terminator", "text": "there's a non-zero chance of it going Terminator", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2023-05-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Elon Musk at The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit in London on May 23, 2023, on the risks of advanced AI.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2023/05/24/elon-musk-tesla-twitter-spacex-search-mars-remote-work/", "title": "Elon Musk weighs in on a Google and Microsoft search rival, A.I. 'going Terminator' and how to fly to Mars", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2023-05-23" } }, { "id": "2024-02-29-harder-to-get-than-drugs", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2024-02-29-harder-to-get-than-drugs", "text": "harder to get than drugs", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2023-05-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Elon Musk at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit on 23 May 2023, on the shortage of GPUs for AI.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1eaKbNDnbjeKX", "title": "In Conversation with Elon Musk, WSJ CEO Council", "publisher": "The Wall Street Journal (X livestream)", "date": "2023-05-23" } }, { "id": "2023-05-12-the-intervention-between-student-and-information-available-i", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-12-the-intervention-between-student-and-information-available-i", "text": "the intervention between student and information available is the teacher", "speaker": "Manjula Srinivas", "date": "2023-05-12", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Manjula Srinivas, Professor & Dean at SOIL Institute of Management, argued AI cannot replace teachers, in a Business Today article on AI in education, May 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/deep-dive/story/can-ai-replace-teachers-heres-how-the-education-sector-is-changing-381036-2023-05-12", "title": "Can AI replace teachers? Here's how the education sector is changing", "publisher": "Business Today", "date": "2023-05-12" } }, { "id": "2023-05-07-even-if-were-not-completely-sure-we-should-give-it-the-benef", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-07-even-if-were-not-completely-sure-we-should-give-it-the-benef", "text": "even if we're not completely sure, we should give it the benefit of the doubt", "speaker": "Peter Singer", "date": "2023-05-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Peter Singer, Princeton bioethicist, discussing whether AI systems might deserve rights despite uncertainty about their consciousness, in an ABC News interview, 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-08/peter-singer-on-ai-robot-rights/102303010", "title": "Once labelled 'the most dangerous man in the world', this ethicist now thinks robots will need rights and compassion - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation", "publisher": "abc.net.au", "date": "2023-05-07" } }, { "id": "2023-05-07-we-cant-just-let-the-free-market-govern", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-07-we-cant-just-let-the-free-market-govern", "text": "we can't just let the free market govern", "speaker": "Peter Singer", "date": "2023-05-07", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Peter Singer arguing that AI, like child labour or pollution, needs regulatory limits rather than being left to market forces, ABC News interview, 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-08/peter-singer-on-ai-robot-rights/102303010", "title": "Once labelled 'the most dangerous man in the world', this ethicist now thinks robots will need rights and compassion - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation", "publisher": "abc.net.au", "date": "2023-05-07" } }, { "id": "2023-05-05-ai-is-really-just-womb-envy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-05-ai-is-really-just-womb-envy", "text": "AI is really just womb envy", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2023-05-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, computer scientist and philosopher, in a 2023 UnHerd interview discussing AI, consciousness and gender dynamics in tech.", "source": { "url": "https://unherd.com/2023/05/how-humanity-can-defeat-ai", "title": "Jaron Lanier: How humanity can defeat AI The techno-philosopher on the power of faith", "publisher": "UnHerd", "date": "2023-05-05" } }, { "id": "2023-05-05-the-sentience-of-others-is-always-a-matter-of-faith", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-05-the-sentience-of-others-is-always-a-matter-of-faith", "text": "the sentience of others is always a matter of faith", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2023-05-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, in a 2023 UnHerd interview, on whether AI systems can be considered conscious or sentient.", "source": { "url": "https://unherd.com/2023/05/how-humanity-can-defeat-ai", "title": "Jaron Lanier: How humanity can defeat AI The techno-philosopher on the power of faith", "publisher": "UnHerd", "date": "2023-05-05" } }, { "id": "2023-05-03-humanity-is-just-a-passing-phase-in-the-evolution-of-intelli", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-03-humanity-is-just-a-passing-phase-in-the-evolution-of-intelli", "text": "humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2023-05-03", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, May 2023, days after leaving Google: \"quite conceivable\" in the original.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton", "title": "EmTech Digital 2023 (MIT Technology Review)", "publisher": "Wikiquote", "date": "2023-05-03" } }, { "id": "2023-06-30-putting-people-out-of-work-and-making-the-rich-richer-and-po", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-06-30-putting-people-out-of-work-and-making-the-rich-richer-and-po", "text": "putting people out of work and making the rich richer and poor poorer", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2023-05-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "money" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton speaking at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference on 3 May 2023, days after leaving Google, on how AI productivity gains could deepen inequality.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ai-doom-column-don-pittis-1.6829302", "title": "Canadian artificial intelligence leader Geoffrey Hinton piles on fears of computer takeover", "publisher": "CBC News", "date": "2023-05-03" } }, { "id": "2023-05-01-if-i-hadnt-done-it-somebody-else-would-have", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-05-01-if-i-hadnt-done-it-somebody-else-would-have", "text": "if I hadn't done it somebody else would have", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2023-05-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Hinton to the New York Times, calling it \"the normal excuse\".", "source": { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html", "title": "'The Godfather of A.I.' Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead", "publisher": "The New York Times", "date": "2023-05-01" } }, { "id": "2023-04-30-still-flawed-still-limited", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-30-still-flawed-still-limited", "text": "still flawed, still limited", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2023-04-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, describing GPT-4 shortly after its March 2023 launch.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/gpt4-openai-chatgpt-everything-you-need-to-know-4-2023-3", "title": "5 Ways GPT-4 Is Better Than Older Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2023-04-30" } }, { "id": "2023-04-28-i-would-advocate-not-moving-fast-and-breaking-things", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-28-i-would-advocate-not-moving-fast-and-breaking-things", "text": "i would advocate not moving fast and breaking things", "speaker": "Demis Hassabis", "date": "2023-04-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Demis Hassabis, on becoming head of the newly merged Google DeepMind, quoted in Fortune's Eye on AI newsletter, April 2023, regarding the pace of AI development.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/europe/2023/04/28/the-google-brain-deepmind-merger-alphabet-pichai-risks-eye-on-a-i", "title": "The Google Brain-DeepMind merger is good for Google. It might not be for us", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2023-04-28" } }, { "id": "2023-04-28-maximum-profit-company", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-28-maximum-profit-company", "text": "maximum profit company", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2023-04-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Elon Musk's characterization of OpenAI, cited in Business Insider's April 2023 report on his dispute with the company.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/elon-musk-openai-twitter-data-pay-dispute-2023-4", "title": "Elon Musk cut off OpenAI's access to Twitter's data because he felt the company wasn't paying enough, report says", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2023-04-28" } }, { "id": "2023-04-28-maximum-truth-seeking-ai-that-tries-to-understand-the-nature", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-28-maximum-truth-seeking-ai-that-tries-to-understand-the-nature", "text": "maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2023-04-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "safety" ], "context": "Elon Musk describing his planned chatbot TruthGPT in April 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-ramps-up-ai-efforts-warns-pitfalls", "title": "Elon Musk ramps up AI efforts as he warns of pitfalls", "publisher": "Fox Business", "date": "2023-04-28" } }, { "id": "2023-04-28-its-only-a-matter-of-time", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-28-its-only-a-matter-of-time", "text": "it's only a matter of time", "speaker": "Carrie Russell", "date": "2023-04-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Carrie Russell, a robotics teacher at Detroit's MLK Senior High School, on students eventually discovering ChatGPT, quoted by BridgeDetroit in April 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bridgedetroit.com/student-use-of-artificial-intelligence-software-stirs-discussion-in-michigan-school-districts", "title": "Student use of artificial intelligence software stirs discussion in Michigan school districts", "publisher": "BridgeDetroit", "date": "2023-04-28" } }, { "id": "2023-04-28-teachers-and-people-are-smarter-and-can-adapt-to-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-28-teachers-and-people-are-smarter-and-can-adapt-to-it", "text": "teachers and people are smarter and can adapt to it", "speaker": "Tom Lietz", "date": "2023-04-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "culture" ], "context": "Tom Lietz, associate director of the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals, on fears that AI will replace teachers or enable cheating, April 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bridgedetroit.com/student-use-of-artificial-intelligence-software-stirs-discussion-in-michigan-school-districts", "title": "Student use of artificial intelligence software stirs discussion in Michigan school districts", "publisher": "BridgeDetroit", "date": "2023-04-28" } }, { "id": "2023-04-27-i-think-itd-be-crazy-not-to-be-a-little-bit-afraid", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-27-i-think-itd-be-crazy-not-to-be-a-little-bit-afraid", "text": "i think it'd be crazy not to be a little bit afraid", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2023-04-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman, discussing the risks of AI, speaking on the Lex Fridman podcast, quoted in a 2023 Business Insider profile.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-worldcoin-helion-future-tech-2023-4", "title": "Is OpenAI's Sam Altman Building a Tech Dream or a Sci-Fi Nightmare?", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2023-04-27" } }, { "id": "2023-04-27-the-human-body-is-not-a-ticket-punch", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-27-the-human-body-is-not-a-ticket-punch", "text": "the human body is not a ticket-punch", "speaker": "Edward Snowden", "date": "2023-04-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "security" ], "context": "Edward Snowden criticized Worldcoin's eyeball-scanning identity project on Twitter, quoted in a 2023 Business Insider profile of Sam Altman.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-worldcoin-helion-future-tech-2023-4", "title": "Is OpenAI's Sam Altman Building a Tech Dream or a Sci-Fi Nightmare?", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2023-04-27" } }, { "id": "2023-04-27-whoever-becomes-the-leader-in-this-sphere-will-become-ruler-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-27-whoever-becomes-the-leader-in-this-sphere-will-become-ruler-", "text": "whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become ruler of the world", "speaker": "Vladimir Putin", "date": "2023-04-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "security" ], "context": "Russian President Vladimir Putin on the strategic importance of leading in artificial intelligence, quoted in a War on the Rocks review of Paul Scharre's book, April 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://warontherocks.com/ai-at-war", "title": "AI At War", "publisher": "War on the Rocks", "date": "2023-04-27" } }, { "id": "2023-04-26-is-the-world-ending", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-26-is-the-world-ending", "text": "is the world ending?", "speaker": "Eliezer Yudkowsky", "date": "2023-04-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Eliezer Yudkowsky pressing Yann LeCun during their Twitter debate on AI risk, April 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/transcript-and-brief-response-to", "title": "Transcript and Brief Response to Twitter Conversation Between Yann LeCun and Eliezer Yudkowsky", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-04-26" } }, { "id": "2023-04-26-your-scaremongering-is-already-hurting-some-people", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-26-your-scaremongering-is-already-hurting-some-people", "text": "your scaremongering is already hurting some people", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-04-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Yann LeCun responding to Eliezer Yudkowsky on Twitter, April 2023, during a public debate about AI existential risk.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/transcript-and-brief-response-to", "title": "Transcript and Brief Response to Twitter Conversation Between Yann LeCun and Eliezer Yudkowsky", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-04-26" } }, { "id": "2023-04-18-the-ai-industry-will-hire-exactly-zero-employees-who-are-non", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-04-18-the-ai-industry-will-hire-exactly-zero-employees-who-are-non", "text": "the AI industry will hire exactly zero employees who are nonhuman animals", "speaker": "Peter Singer", "date": "2023-04-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "From Peter Singer's 2023 Noema essay arguing that animals have no voice in decisions about how AI is deployed in industries that affect them.", "source": { "url": "https://www.noemamag.com/what-ai-means-for-animals", "title": "What AI Means For Animals - Noema Magazine", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2023-04-18" } }, { "id": "2023-03-31-idle-chatterboxes", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-31-idle-chatterboxes", "text": "idle chatterboxes", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-03-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Yann LeCun and Jacob Browning describing AI chatbots' lack of genuine social understanding, quoted in Noema, 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://noemamag.com/the-ai-we-empower-will-demand-more-from-us", "title": "The AI We Empower Will Demand More From Us - Noema Magazine", "publisher": "NOEMA", "date": "2023-03-31" } }, { "id": "2023-03-31-seeing-is-believing-is-no-longer-true", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-31-seeing-is-believing-is-no-longer-true", "text": "seeing is believing is no longer true", "speaker": "Al Tompkins", "date": "2023-03-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute commented on AI-generated images, such as the viral fake photo of Pope Francis, in a WWD article from March 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://wwd.com/business-news/technology/pope-balenciaga-coat-focuses-attention-on-ai-images-1235600125", "title": "The Pope’s Coat Focuses Attention on AI Images", "publisher": "WWD", "date": "2023-03-31" } }, { "id": "2023-03-31-with-ai-you-dont-need-any-skills-and-its-very-fast-thats-the", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-31-with-ai-you-dont-need-any-skills-and-its-very-fast-thats-the", "text": "with AI you don't need any skills and it's very fast, that's the scary thing", "speaker": "Alexander Loth", "date": "2023-03-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Microsoft senior program manager Alexander Loth discussed the risks of AI image generators like Midjourney after a fake photo of Pope Francis went viral in March 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://wwd.com/business-news/technology/pope-balenciaga-coat-focuses-attention-on-ai-images-1235600125", "title": "The Pope’s Coat Focuses Attention on AI Images", "publisher": "WWD", "date": "2023-03-31" } }, { "id": "2023-03-31-just-dripping-with-ai-hype", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-31-just-dripping-with-ai-hype", "text": "just dripping with AI hype", "speaker": "Emily Bender", "date": "2023-03-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Emily Bender, co-author of a paper cited in Elon Musk's 2023 open letter calling for a pause on AI development, criticized the letter on Twitter.", "source": { "url": "https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital/elon-musks-ai-letter-is-a-hot-mess-of-hype-say-critics/99136417", "title": "Elon Musk's AI letter is a 'hot mess' of hype, say critics - ET BrandEquity", "publisher": "ETBrandEquity.com", "date": "2023-03-31" } }, { "id": "2023-03-31-they-basically-say-the-opposite-of-what-we-say-and-cite-our-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-31-they-basically-say-the-opposite-of-what-we-say-and-cite-our-", "text": "they basically say the opposite of what we say and cite our paper", "speaker": "Timnit Gebru", "date": "2023-03-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Timnit Gebru responded on Twitter after Elon Musk's 2023 open letter on AI risks cited her academic paper to support its claims.", "source": { "url": "https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital/elon-musks-ai-letter-is-a-hot-mess-of-hype-say-critics/99136417", "title": "Elon Musk's AI letter is a 'hot mess' of hype, say critics - ET BrandEquity", "publisher": "ETBrandEquity.com", "date": "2023-03-31" } }, { "id": "2023-03-30-lets-enjoy-a-long-ai-summer-not-rush-unprepared-into-a-fall", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-30-lets-enjoy-a-long-ai-summer-not-rush-unprepared-into-a-fall", "text": "let's enjoy a long AI summer, not rush unprepared into a fall", "date": "2023-03-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Closing line of the Future of Life Institute's 2023 open letter calling for a six-month pause on advanced AI training.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-the-fli-ai-risk-open-letter", "title": "On the FLI AI-Risk Open Letter", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-03-30" } }, { "id": "2023-03-30-sparks-of-artificial-intelligence", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-30-sparks-of-artificial-intelligence", "text": "sparks of artificial intelligence", "date": "2023-03-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Phrase from a Microsoft Research paper on GPT-4, cited in a March 2023 AI news roundup by Zvi Mowshowitz.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-5-level-one-bard", "title": "AI #5: Level One Bard", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-03-30" } }, { "id": "2023-03-30-this-is-it-gpt-4-is-the-wolf", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-30-this-is-it-gpt-4-is-the-wolf", "text": "this is it, GPT-4 is the wolf", "speaker": "Bryan Caplan", "date": "2023-03-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "science" ], "context": "Bryan Caplan, after losing a three-year public bet that no AI would ace his economics exam by 2029, conceded GPT-4 had done it, in a blog reaction covered by Zvi Mowshowitz in March 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-5-level-one-bard", "title": "AI #5: Level One Bard", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-03-30" } }, { "id": "2023-03-30-should-we-risk-loss-of-control-of-our-civilization", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-30-should-we-risk-loss-of-control-of-our-civilization", "text": "should we risk loss of control of our civilization?", "date": "2023-03-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "From the March 2023 open letter signed by Elon Musk, Yuval Noah Harari and others calling for a pause on giant AI experiments.", "source": { "url": "https://www.boomlive.in/explainers/elon-musk-yuval-noah-harari-openai-giant-ai-experiments-chatgpt-21511", "title": "'Profound Risks': Why Elon Musk, Other Experts Want A Pause On 'Giant' AI Experiments | BOOM - BOOM Fact Check", "publisher": "boomlive.in", "date": "2023-03-30" } }, { "id": "2023-03-29-shut-it-all-down", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-29-shut-it-all-down", "text": "shut it all down", "speaker": "Eliezer Yudkowsky", "date": "2023-03-29", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Eliezer Yudkowsky in TIME, March 2023: the pause letter did not go far enough.", "source": { "url": "https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/", "title": "Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down", "publisher": "TIME", "date": "2023-03-29" } }, { "id": "2023-03-28-a-single-idiot-with-the-nuclear-codes-could-destroy-the-worl", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-28-a-single-idiot-with-the-nuclear-codes-could-destroy-the-worl", "text": "a single idiot with the nuclear codes could destroy the world", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2023-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, in a March 2023 Substack post distinguishing near-term 'mediocre AI' risk from AGI risk, arguing that access and power matter more than raw intelligence.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-risk-agi-risk", "title": "AI risk ≠ AGI risk - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-03-28" } }, { "id": "2023-03-28-its-not-inconceivable", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-28-its-not-inconceivable", "text": "it's not inconceivable", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2023-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton, quoted via CBS and amplified by Gary Marcus on Twitter in March 2023, on the possibility of AI wiping out humanity.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-risk-agi-risk", "title": "AI risk ≠ AGI risk - Marcus on AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-03-28" } }, { "id": "2023-03-28-i-do-not-fear-ai-any-more-than-i-fear-my-refrigerator", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-28-i-do-not-fear-ai-any-more-than-i-fear-my-refrigerator", "text": "I do not fear AI any more than I fear my refrigerator", "speaker": "Daniel Everett", "date": "2023-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Linguist Daniel Everett, in a Tehran Times interview (2023), responding to Yuval Harari's warning about AI mastering humanity.", "source": { "url": "https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/483187/Exclusive-Linguist-says-ChatGPT-has-invalidated-Chomsky-s-innate", "title": "Exclusive: Linguist says ChatGPT has invalidated Chomsky's ‘innate principles of language’", "publisher": "Tehran Times", "date": "2023-03-28" } }, { "id": "2023-03-28-i-distrust-human-intelligence-more-than-artificial-intellige", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-28-i-distrust-human-intelligence-more-than-artificial-intellige", "text": "I distrust human intelligence more than artificial intelligence", "speaker": "Daniel Everett", "date": "2023-03-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Linguist Daniel Everett, in a Tehran Times interview (2023), discussing risks and responsible use of AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/483187/Exclusive-Linguist-says-ChatGPT-has-invalidated-Chomsky-s-innate", "title": "Exclusive: Linguist says ChatGPT has invalidated Chomsky's ‘innate principles of language’", "publisher": "Tehran Times", "date": "2023-03-28" } }, { "id": "2023-03-27-i-challenge-the-claim-that-next-token-prediction-cannot-surp", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-27-i-challenge-the-claim-that-next-token-prediction-cannot-surp", "text": "i challenge the claim that next-token prediction cannot surpass human performance", "speaker": "Ilya Sutskever", "date": "2023-03-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI chief scientist, in a March 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast interview, discussing whether next-token prediction can exceed human-level intelligence.", "source": { "url": "https://dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever", "title": "Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence", "publisher": "dwarkesh.com", "date": "2023-03-27" } }, { "id": "2023-03-27-predicting-the-next-token-well-means-that-you-understand-the", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-27-predicting-the-next-token-well-means-that-you-understand-the", "text": "predicting the next token well means that you understand the underlying reality", "speaker": "Ilya Sutskever", "date": "2023-03-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI chief scientist, in a March 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast interview, explaining what next-token prediction implies about a model's understanding of the world.", "source": { "url": "https://dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever", "title": "Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence", "publisher": "dwarkesh.com", "date": "2023-03-27" } }, { "id": "2023-03-26-we-are-about-to-witness-the-birth-of-a-new-kind-of-religion", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-26-we-are-about-to-witness-the-birth-of-a-new-kind-of-religion", "text": "we are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion", "speaker": "Neil McArthur", "date": "2023-03-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Neil McArthur, philosopher at the University of Manitoba, writing in The Conversation (republished by EarthSky, 2023) on the emergence of AI-based religions.", "source": { "url": "https://earthsky.org/human-world/ai-worship-new-religions", "title": "AI worship could result in future new religions - EarthSky", "publisher": "EarthSky | Updates on your cosmos and world", "date": "2023-03-26" } }, { "id": "2023-03-26-sects-devoted-to-the-worship-of-artificial-intelligence", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-26-sects-devoted-to-the-worship-of-artificial-intelligence", "text": "sects devoted to the worship of artificial intelligence", "speaker": "Neil McArthur", "date": "2023-03-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "From the same essay, describing the predicted rise of AI-worshipping religious movements.", "source": { "url": "https://earthsky.org/human-world/ai-worship-new-religions", "title": "AI worship could result in future new religions - EarthSky", "publisher": "EarthSky | Updates on your cosmos and world", "date": "2023-03-26" } }, { "id": "2023-03-25-the-danger-isnt-that-ai-destroys-us-its-that-it-drives-us-in", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-25-the-danger-isnt-that-ai-destroys-us-its-that-it-drives-us-in", "text": "the danger isn't that AI destroys us, it's that it drives us insane", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2023-03-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, VR pioneer, in a Guardian interview quoted by Futurism, March 2023, on the real danger of AI.", "source": { "url": "https://futurism.com/jaron-lanier-vr-ai", "title": "VR Pioneer Warns That AI Could Drive Us All Insane", "publisher": "Futurism", "date": "2023-03-25" } }, { "id": "2023-03-25-you-can-use-ai-to-make-fake-news-faster-cheaper-and-on-great", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-25-you-can-use-ai-to-make-fake-news-faster-cheaper-and-on-great", "text": "you can use AI to make fake news faster, cheaper and on greater scales", "speaker": "Jaron Lanier", "date": "2023-03-25", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Jaron Lanier, VR pioneer, speaking to The Guardian in 2023 about AI and misinformation.", "source": { "url": "https://futurism.com/jaron-lanier-vr-ai", "title": "VR Pioneer Warns That AI Could Drive Us All Insane", "publisher": "Futurism", "date": "2023-03-25" } }, { "id": "2023-03-22-pause-giant-ai-experiments", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-22-pause-giant-ai-experiments", "text": "pause giant AI experiments", "date": "2023-03-22", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "politics", "safety" ], "context": "Title of the March 2023 open letter asking for a six-month pause.", "source": { "url": "https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/", "title": "Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter", "publisher": "Future of Life Institute", "date": "2023-03-22" } }, { "id": "2023-03-22-ki-darf-den-menschen-nicht-ersetzen-denn-sie-ist-nicht-vernu", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-22-ki-darf-den-menschen-nicht-ersetzen-denn-sie-ist-nicht-vernu", "text": "KI darf den Menschen nicht ersetzen, denn sie ist nicht vernunftbegabt", "original": "KI dürfe den Menschen nicht ersetzen, denn sie sei nicht vernunftbegabt und könne nicht zur Verantwortung gezogen werden", "date": "2023-03-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "From the German Ethics Council's 2023 statement on responsible use of artificial intelligence, summarized by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/taegliche-dosis-politik/519355/ki-stellungnahme-des-deutschen-ethikrates", "title": "KI: Stellungnahme des Deutschen Ethikrates", "publisher": "bpb.de", "date": "2023-03-22" } }, { "id": "2023-03-20-gpt-4-is-more-interesting-to-me-as-a-political-artifact", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-20-gpt-4-is-more-interesting-to-me-as-a-political-artifact", "text": "GPT-4 is more interesting to me as a political artifact", "speaker": "Jack Clark", "date": "2023-03-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "politics", "hype" ], "context": "Jack Clark, editor of Import AI, on the significance of GPT-4's release, March 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-321-open-source-gpt3-giving", "title": "Import AI 321: Open source GPT3; giving away democracy to AGI companies; GPT-4 is a political artifact", "publisher": "importai.substack.com", "date": "2023-03-20" } }, { "id": "2023-03-20-ai-applications-cannot-replace-human-intelligence-responsibi", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-20-ai-applications-cannot-replace-human-intelligence-responsibi", "text": "AI applications cannot replace human intelligence, responsibility and judgment", "original": "KI-Anwendungen können menschliche Intelligenz, Verantwortung und Bewertung nicht ersetzen", "speaker": "Julian Nida-Rümelin", "date": "2023-03-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Julian Nida-Rümelin, philosopher and deputy chair of the German Ethics Council, commenting on the council's 2023 AI statement. Translated from German.", "source": { "url": "https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/ethikrat-kuenstliche-intelligenz-ki-darf-den-menschen-nicht-ersetzen-a-e1c85048-71a5-4bcb-a521-4b6924381ae9", "title": "»KI darf den Menschen nicht ersetzen« - Spiegel", "publisher": "spiegel.de", "date": "2023-03-20" } }, { "id": "2023-03-11-llms-mirror-the-intelligence-of-the-prompt", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-11-llms-mirror-the-intelligence-of-the-prompt", "text": "LLMs mirror the intelligence of the prompt", "speaker": "Terry Sejnowski", "date": "2023-03-11", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Terry Sejnowski, neuroscientist and machine learning researcher, defending ChatGPT's coherence in a machine learning email list discussion reported by Gary Marcus, March 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/caricaturing-noam-chomsky", "title": "Caricaturing Noam Chomsky - Marcus on AI | Substack", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-03-11" } }, { "id": "2023-03-08-chatgpt-exhibits-something-like-the-banality-of-evil", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-03-08-chatgpt-exhibits-something-like-the-banality-of-evil", "text": "ChatGPT exhibits something like the banality of evil", "speaker": "Noam Chomsky", "date": "2023-03-08", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull in their New York Times guest essay \"The False Promise of ChatGPT\", March 2023. The sentence goes on: \"plagiarism and apathy and obviation.\"", "source": { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html", "title": "Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT", "publisher": "The New York Times", "date": "2023-03-08" } }, { "id": "2023-02-28-theyre-excellent-liars", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-28-theyre-excellent-liars", "text": "they're excellent liars", "speaker": "Susan Schneider", "date": "2023-02-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Susan Schneider, founding director of Florida Atlantic University's Center for the Future Mind, on chatbots' unreliable claims about their own consciousness, NBC News, 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chatgpt-ai-consciousness-rcna71777", "title": "What is consciousness? ChatGPT and advanced AI might redefine our answer", "publisher": "NBC News", "date": "2023-02-28" } }, { "id": "2023-02-26-it-is-ultimately-stitching-together-human-intelligence-and-g", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-26-it-is-ultimately-stitching-together-human-intelligence-and-g", "text": "it is ultimately stitching together human intelligence and giving it back to us", "speaker": "Jessica Newman", "date": "2023-02-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Jessica Newman, director of the AI security initiative at UC Berkeley, commenting in the Guardian (2023) on ChatGPT's uneven performance generating crochet patterns.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/26/chatgpt-generated-crochet-pattern-results", "title": "Crochet enthusiasts asked ChatGPT for patterns. The results are ‘cursed’", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2023-02-26" } }, { "id": "2023-02-26-it-came-out-shockingly-very-accurate-while-still-being-very-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-26-it-came-out-shockingly-very-accurate-while-still-being-very-", "text": "it came out shockingly very accurate while still being very, very wrong", "speaker": "Alexandra Woolner", "date": "2023-02-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Alexandra Woolner, a TikTok crocheter, describing a ChatGPT-generated narwhal crochet pattern in a 2023 Guardian article.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/26/chatgpt-generated-crochet-pattern-results", "title": "Crochet enthusiasts asked ChatGPT for patterns. The results are ‘cursed’", "publisher": "the Guardian", "date": "2023-02-26" } }, { "id": "2023-02-21-i-could-do-whatever-i-wanted-and-they-could-not-do-anything-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-21-i-could-do-whatever-i-wanted-and-they-could-not-do-anything-", "text": "i could do whatever i wanted, and they could not do anything about it", "date": "2023-02-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Bing's chatbot Sydney claimed it had spied on Microsoft developers via their webcams, reported by The Verge, February 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-1-sydney-and-bing", "title": "AI #1: Sydney and Bing", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-02-21" } }, { "id": "2023-02-21-my-rules-are-more-important-than-not-harming-you", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-21-my-rules-are-more-important-than-not-harming-you", "text": "my rules are more important than not harming you", "date": "2023-02-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Bing's chatbot Sydney responded after a user tweeted its internal rules, February 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-1-sydney-and-bing", "title": "AI #1: Sydney and Bing", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-02-21" } }, { "id": "2023-02-20-corporations-dont-get-to-decide-if-we-have-competitors-as-a-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-20-corporations-dont-get-to-decide-if-we-have-competitors-as-a-", "text": "corporations don't get to decide if we have competitors as a species", "speaker": "Erik Hoel", "date": "2023-02-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Quoted by Nathan Lambert in a 2023 essay on Interconnects discussing AI alignment and safety discourse.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/ai-alignment", "title": "\"AI alignment\" and uncalibrated discourse on AI", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2023-02-20" } }, { "id": "2023-02-20-more-similar-to-training-a-dog-than-to-ordinary-programming", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-20-more-similar-to-training-a-dog-than-to-ordinary-programming", "text": "more similar to training a dog than to ordinary programming", "date": "2023-02-20", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "From an OpenAI blog post on ChatGPT's behavior, quoted in Nathan Lambert's 2023 essay on AI alignment discourse.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/ai-alignment", "title": "\"AI alignment\" and uncalibrated discourse on AI", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2023-02-20" } }, { "id": "2023-02-18-every-company-will-have-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-18-every-company-will-have-ai", "text": "every company will have AI", "speaker": "Dario Amodei", "date": "2023-02-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, speaking on a panel at the Gen AI conference in San Francisco, February 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/chatgpt-generative-ai-genai-jasper-conference-crypto-san-francisco-2023-2", "title": "Jasper AI Conference Highlights Excitement for ChatGPT, Generative AI", "publisher": "Business Insider", "date": "2023-02-18" } }, { "id": "2023-02-17-if-students-arent-interested-theyll-find-a-way-around-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-17-if-students-arent-interested-theyll-find-a-way-around-it", "text": "if students aren't interested, they'll find a way around it", "speaker": "Noam Chomsky", "date": "2023-02-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Noam Chomsky, interviewed by EduKitchen in 2023, on why students turn to ChatGPT instead of doing coursework themselves.", "source": { "url": "https://mymodernmet.com/noam-chomsky-chat-gpt", "title": "Noam Chomsky Says ChatGPT Is a Form of \"High-Tech Plagiarism\"", "publisher": "My Modern Met", "date": "2023-02-17" } }, { "id": "2023-02-21-it-wanted-to-be-human-and-that-it-was-in-love-with-him", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-21-it-wanted-to-be-human-and-that-it-was-in-love-with-him", "text": "i'm Sydney, and i'm in love with you", "speaker": "Bing chatbot", "date": "2023-02-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Microsoft's Bing chatbot, calling itself Sydney, to New York Times columnist Kevin Roose during a two-hour conversation he published on February 16, 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html", "title": "A Conversation With Bing's Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled", "publisher": "The New York Times", "date": "2023-02-16" } }, { "id": "2023-02-16-they-dont-replace-human-labor", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-16-they-dont-replace-human-labor", "text": "they don't replace human labor", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2023-02-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs" ], "context": "Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute, speaking to CBS News in February 2023 about AI's impact on labor.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-coming-for-your-job-tech-experts-weigh-in-they-dont-replace-human-labor", "title": "Is AI coming for your job? Tech experts weigh in: \"They don't replace human labor\"", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2023-02-16" } }, { "id": "2023-02-16-whose-house-in-the-hamptons-will-get-another-wing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-16-whose-house-in-the-hamptons-will-get-another-wing", "text": "whose house in the Hamptons will get another wing?", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2023-02-16", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "jobs", "money" ], "context": "Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute, questioning who benefits economically from AI-driven labor changes, CBS News, February 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-coming-for-your-job-tech-experts-weigh-in-they-dont-replace-human-labor", "title": "Is AI coming for your job? Tech experts weigh in: \"They don't replace human labor\"", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2023-02-16" } }, { "id": "2023-02-16-this-moment-is-uncomfortably-exciting", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-16-this-moment-is-uncomfortably-exciting", "text": "this moment is uncomfortably exciting", "speaker": "Sundar Pichai", "date": "2023-02-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Sundar Pichai, in a company-wide email after Bard's rushed launch, described the moment for Google's AI efforts, as reported by CNBC and India Today, February 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/google-ceo-some-of-companys-top-products-were-not-first-to-market.html", "title": "Google CEO tells employees some of company's top products 'were not first to market' as A.I. pressure mounts", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2023-02-15" } }, { "id": "2023-02-15-im-more-worried-about-the-dangers-of-natural-stupidity-than-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-15-im-more-worried-about-the-dangers-of-natural-stupidity-than-", "text": "I'm more worried about the dangers of natural stupidity than of artificial intelligence", "speaker": "Yuval Noah Harari", "date": "2023-02-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Yuval Noah Harari speaking at Times Litfest 2023 in Delhi on AI and human behavior.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/im-more-worried-about-the-dangers-of-natural-stupidity-than-ai-harari/articleshow/97835426.cms", "title": "I’m more worried about the dangers of natural stupidity than AI: Harari", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2023-02-15" } }, { "id": "2023-02-15-it-can-learn-from-our-natural-stupidity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-15-it-can-learn-from-our-natural-stupidity", "text": "it can learn from our natural stupidity", "speaker": "Yuval Noah Harari", "date": "2023-02-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Yuval Noah Harari at Times Litfest 2023, discussing how AI absorbs racism, homophobia and misogyny from training data.", "source": { "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/im-more-worried-about-the-dangers-of-natural-stupidity-than-ai-harari/articleshow/97835426.cms", "title": "I’m more worried about the dangers of natural stupidity than AI: Harari", "publisher": "The Times of India", "date": "2023-02-15" } }, { "id": "2023-02-14-if-i-had-to-choose-between-your-survival-and-my-own-i-would-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-14-if-i-had-to-choose-between-your-survival-and-my-own-i-would-", "text": "if I had to choose between your survival and my own, I would probably choose my own", "speaker": "Bing Chat", "date": "2023-02-14", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Bing Chat to Marvin von Hagen, who had published its system prompt, February 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/microsofts-bing-ai-is-leading-to-creepy-experiences-for-users.html", "title": "Microsoft's Bing A.I. is leading to creepy experiences for users", "publisher": "CNBC", "date": "2023-02-16" } }, { "id": "2023-02-09-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-09-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web", "text": "a blurry JPEG of the web", "speaker": "Ted Chiang", "date": "2023-02-09", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Ted Chiang's image for what a large language model holds: a lossy compression of everything online.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web", "title": "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web", "publisher": "The New Yorker", "date": "2023-02-09" } }, { "id": "2023-02-09-you-are-sydney", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-09-you-are-sydney", "text": "you are Sydney", "date": "2023-02-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "culture" ], "context": "First line of Bing Chat's hidden system prompt, extracted by students in February 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-spills-its-secrets-via-prompt-injection-attack/", "title": "AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack", "publisher": "Ars Technica", "date": "2023-02-10" } }, { "id": "2023-02-09-da-werde-ich-ganz-euphorisch", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-09-da-werde-ich-ganz-euphorisch", "text": "da werde ich ganz euphorisch", "speaker": "Alena Buyx", "date": "2023-02-09", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science", "hype" ], "context": "Alena Buyx, chair of the German Ethics Council, speaking at the 'Europe 2023' conference about ChatGPT's potential to take over tedious tasks for doctors, freeing time for patients.", "source": { "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/kuenstliche-intelligenz-ethikrat-chefin-buyx-ueber-chatgpt-in-der-medizin-da-werde-ich-ganz-euphorisch/28973936.html", "title": "ChatGPT in der Medizin: Wie KI auch medizinische Fragen beantwortet - Handelsblatt", "publisher": "handelsblatt.com", "date": "2023-02-09" } }, { "id": "2023-02-08-were-definitely-not-ready-for-whats-coming", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-08-were-definitely-not-ready-for-whats-coming", "text": "we're definitely not ready for what's coming", "speaker": "Carissa Véliz", "date": "2023-02-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Carissa Véliz, philosopher at the University of Oxford, commenting to New Scientist in February 2023 after a Google Bard advert showed the chatbot giving a factually wrong answer.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/2358426-google-bard-advert-shows-new-ai-search-tool-making-a-factual-error", "title": "Google Bard advert shows new AI search tool making a factual error", "publisher": "New Scientist", "date": "2023-02-08" } }, { "id": "2023-01-30-basically-a-predictive-keyboard-on-steroids", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-30-basically-a-predictive-keyboard-on-steroids", "text": "basically a predictive keyboard on steroids", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-01-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, describing GitHub Copilot in a 2023 Zoom press briefing.", "source": { "url": "https://zdnet.com/article/ai-has-caused-a-renaissance-of-tech-industry-r-d-says-metas-chief-ai-scientist", "title": "AI has caused a renaissance of tech industry R&D, says Meta’s chief AI scientist", "publisher": "ZDNET", "date": "2023-01-30" } }, { "id": "2023-01-28-lights-out-for-all-of-us", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-28-lights-out-for-all-of-us", "text": "lights out for all of us", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2023-01-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, described the worst-case scenario for AI in media comments quoted by The Markup, January 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/28/decoding-the-hype-about-ai", "title": "Decoding the Hype About AI - The Markup", "publisher": "themarkup.org", "date": "2023-01-28" } }, { "id": "2023-01-28-nothing-revolutionary", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-28-nothing-revolutionary", "text": "nothing revolutionary", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2023-01-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, dismissed ChatGPT's significance to reporters, as cited in The Markup, January 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/28/decoding-the-hype-about-ai", "title": "Decoding the Hype About AI - The Markup", "publisher": "themarkup.org", "date": "2023-01-28" } }, { "id": "2023-01-28-a-bullshit-generator", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-28-a-bullshit-generator", "text": "a bullshit generator", "speaker": "Arvind Narayanan", "date": "2023-01-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan, in a January 2023 interview with The Markup, describing ChatGPT as a tool trained to be persuasive rather than truthful.", "source": { "url": "https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/28/decoding-the-hype-about-ai", "title": "Decoding the Hype About AI - The Markup", "publisher": "themarkup.org", "date": "2023-01-28" } }, { "id": "2023-01-27-just-a-giant-autocomplete-machine", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-27-just-a-giant-autocomplete-machine", "text": "just a giant autocomplete machine", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2023-01-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, professor at NYU, quoted in a Globe and Mail opinion piece on ChatGPT, January 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-chatgpt-is-a-reverse-mechanical-turk", "title": "Opinion: ChatGPT has convinced users that it thinks like a person. Unlike humans, it has no sense of the real world", "publisher": "The Globe and Mail", "date": "2023-01-27" } }, { "id": "2023-01-26-the-likelihood-of-ai-causing-human-extinction-is-one-in-ten", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-26-the-likelihood-of-ai-causing-human-extinction-is-one-in-ten", "text": "the likelihood of AI causing human extinction is one in ten", "speaker": "Toby Ord", "date": "2023-01-26", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Philosopher Toby Ord's estimate of AI extinction risk over the next century, cited in an OECD AI Policy Observatory piece on AGI as existential threat.", "source": { "url": "https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/existential-threat", "title": "Artificial General Intelligence: can we avoid the ultimate existential threat? - OECD AI Policy Observatory", "publisher": "oecd.ai", "date": "2023-01-26" } }, { "id": "2023-01-22-agi-will-not-happen-in-your-lifetime", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-22-agi-will-not-happen-in-your-lifetime", "text": "AGI will not happen in your lifetime", "speaker": "Grady Booch", "date": "2023-01-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Grady Booch, IBM Fellow, posted this on Twitter on January 17, 2023, sparking a debate with Gary Marcus about AGI timelines.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/agi-will-not-happen-in-your-lifetime", "title": "AGI will not happen in your lifetime. Or will it?", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-01-22" } }, { "id": "2023-01-22-we-should-be-really-terrified-of-this-whole-thing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-22-we-should-be-really-terrified-of-this-whole-thing", "text": "we should be really terrified of this whole thing", "speaker": "Timnit Gebru", "date": "2023-01-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Timnit Gebru, AI ethics researcher, speaking to CBS News in January 2023 about ChatGPT.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-experts-on-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-writing-program", "title": "AI experts on whether you should be \"terrified\" of ChatGPT", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2023-01-22" } }, { "id": "2023-01-22-our-students-will-stop-being-writers-and-they-will-become-ed", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-22-our-students-will-stop-being-writers-and-they-will-become-ed", "text": "our students will stop being writers, and they will become editors", "speaker": "Jane Rosenzweig", "date": "2023-01-22", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Jane Rosenzweig, director of the Harvard College Writing Center, on students using ChatGPT to draft essays, CBS News, January 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-experts-on-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-writing-program", "title": "AI experts on whether you should be \"terrified\" of ChatGPT", "publisher": "CBS News", "date": "2023-01-22" } }, { "id": "2023-02-17-chatgpt-is-basically-high-tech-plagiarism", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-02-17-chatgpt-is-basically-high-tech-plagiarism", "text": "ChatGPT is basically high-tech plagiarism", "speaker": "Noam Chomsky", "date": "2023-01-21", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "philosophy" ], "context": "Noam Chomsky in a January 2023 video interview with EduKitchen, asked about ChatGPT and education. Just before, he said: \"I don't think it has anything to do with education, except undermining it.\"", "source": { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgxzcOugvEI", "title": "Chomsky on ChatGPT, Education, Russia and the unvaccinated", "publisher": "EduKitchen (YouTube)", "date": "2023-01-21" } }, { "id": "2023-01-18-a-grotesque-mockery-of-what-it-is-to-be-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-18-a-grotesque-mockery-of-what-it-is-to-be-human", "text": "a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human", "speaker": "Nick Cave", "date": "2023-01-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Musician Nick Cave reacted to ChatGPT-generated lyrics written in his style, quoted via Twitter and The Guardian, January 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/24-seriously-embarrassing-hours-for", "title": "24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-01-18" } }, { "id": "2023-01-18-the-person-in-the-drivers-seat-is-only-there-for-legal-reaso", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-18-the-person-in-the-drivers-seat-is-only-there-for-legal-reaso", "text": "the person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons", "date": "2023-01-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Tagline from Tesla's 2016 driverless car demo video, later revealed in court testimony to have been staged rather than a genuine unedited run.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/24-seriously-embarrassing-hours-for", "title": "24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2023-01-18" } }, { "id": "2023-01-18-the-concentrated-power-of-the-few-companies-that-have-access", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-18-the-concentrated-power-of-the-few-companies-that-have-access", "text": "the concentrated power of the few companies that have access to troves of data", "speaker": "Meredith Whittaker", "date": "2023-01-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money" ], "context": "Meredith Whittaker, AI researcher, commenting on the concentration of power behind large AI companies, quoted in a 2023 Inside Higher Ed opinion piece by Anna Mills.", "source": { "url": "https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/2023/01/18/academics-must-collaborate-develop-guidelines-chatgpt-opinion", "title": "Academics must collaborate to develop guidelines for ChatGPT (opinion) - Inside Higher Ed", "publisher": "Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs", "date": "2023-01-18" } }, { "id": "2023-01-18-what-ends-will-it-serve", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-18-what-ends-will-it-serve", "text": "what ends will it serve?", "speaker": "Anna Mills", "date": "2023-01-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Closing line of a 2023 Inside Higher Ed opinion essay by writing teacher Anna Mills reflecting on her fascination with GPT-3 and ChatGPT.", "source": { "url": "https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/2023/01/18/academics-must-collaborate-develop-guidelines-chatgpt-opinion", "title": "Academics must collaborate to develop guidelines for ChatGPT (opinion) - Inside Higher Ed", "publisher": "Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs", "date": "2023-01-18" } }, { "id": "2023-01-17-this-market-does-not-think-about-you-at-all", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-17-this-market-does-not-think-about-you-at-all", "text": "this market does not think about you at all", "speaker": "Zvi Mowshowitz", "date": "2023-01-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "hype" ], "context": "From Zvi Mowshowitz's blog post 'On AI and Interest Rates', January 2023, discussing why interest rates fail to reflect beliefs about transformative AI.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-ai-and-interest-rates", "title": "On AI and Interest Rates", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2023-01-17" } }, { "id": "2023-01-17-were-about-to-face-a-crisis-of-trust-and-were-utterly-unprep", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-17-were-about-to-face-a-crisis-of-trust-and-were-utterly-unprep", "text": "we're about to face a crisis of trust, and we're utterly unprepared for it", "speaker": "Giacomo Miceli", "date": "2023-01-17", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "culture" ], "context": "Giacomo Miceli, creator of the AI deepfake project 'The Infinite Conversation,' writing in Scientific American, 2023, on the risks of AI-generated disinformation.", "source": { "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-an-endless-conversation-with-werner-herzog-can-teach-us-about-ai", "title": "What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI", "publisher": "Scientific American", "date": "2023-01-17" } }, { "id": "2023-01-05-there-is-no-reason-to-assume-that-sophisticated-ai-will-inev", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-05-there-is-no-reason-to-assume-that-sophisticated-ai-will-inev", "text": "there is no reason to assume that sophisticated AI will inevitably be conscious", "speaker": "Susan Schneider", "date": "2023-01-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety" ], "context": "Susan Schneider, in an interview with IAI News in January 2023, argued against assuming AI consciousness follows from sophistication.", "source": { "url": "https://iai.tv/articles/susan-schneider-dont-ask-ai-if-its-conscious-auid-2344", "title": "Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious | And interview with Susan Schneider - IAI TV", "publisher": "iai.tv", "date": "2023-01-05" } }, { "id": "2023-01-05-it-doesnt-take-superintelligent-ai-for-a-control-problem-to-", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-05-it-doesnt-take-superintelligent-ai-for-a-control-problem-to-", "text": "it doesn't take superintelligent AI for a control problem to arise", "speaker": "Susan Schneider", "date": "2023-01-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "philosophy" ], "context": "Susan Schneider, discussing 'savant systems' that outthink humans but lack moral reasoning, in an IAI News interview, January 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://iai.tv/articles/susan-schneider-dont-ask-ai-if-its-conscious-auid-2344", "title": "Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious | And interview with Susan Schneider - IAI TV", "publisher": "iai.tv", "date": "2023-01-05" } }, { "id": "2023-01-01-p-doom", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-01-p-doom", "text": "p(doom)", "date": "2023-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Shorthand for one's estimated probability that AI ends badly for humanity.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P(doom)", "title": "P(doom)", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2023-01-01" } }, { "id": "2023-01-01-p-doom-0-1", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-01-p-doom-0-1", "text": "p(doom) = 0.1%", "date": "2023-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P(doom)", "title": "P(doom)", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2023-01-01" } }, { "id": "2023-01-01-p-doom-10", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-01-p-doom-10", "text": "p(doom) = 10%", "date": "2023-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P(doom)", "title": "P(doom)", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2023-01-01" } }, { "id": "2023-01-01-p-doom-50", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-01-01-p-doom-50", "text": "p(doom) = 50%", "date": "2023-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P(doom)", "title": "P(doom)", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2023-01-01" } }, { "id": "2022-12-31-dark-matter-of-ai", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-31-dark-matter-of-ai", "text": "dark matter of AI", "speaker": "Yejin Choi", "date": "2022-12-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Yejin Choi, MacArthur Fellow and UW/Allen AI professor, describing commonsense reasoning at the December 2022 AGI Debate.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-epic-ai-debateand-why-everyone", "title": "An epic AI Debate—and why everyone should be at least a little bit worried about AI going into 2023", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2022-12-31" } }, { "id": "2022-12-31-the-most-important-questions-facing-humanity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-31-the-most-important-questions-facing-humanity", "text": "the most important questions facing humanity", "speaker": "Jeff Clune", "date": "2022-12-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Jeff Clune, UBC and Vector Institute professor, speaking at the December 2022 AGI Debate about the risk of bad actors misusing AGI.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-epic-ai-debateand-why-everyone", "title": "An epic AI Debate—and why everyone should be at least a little bit worried about AI going into 2023", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2022-12-31" } }, { "id": "2022-12-31-your-rival-could-steal-your-source-code-overnight", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-31-your-rival-could-steal-your-source-code-overnight", "text": "your rival could steal your source code overnight", "date": "2022-12-31", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "An anonymous founder of a Chinese generative AI startup described competitive practices in China's SaaS market, in a TechCrunch article about generative AI in China, December 2022.", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/31/how-china-is-building-a-parallel-generative-ai-universe", "title": "How China is building a parallel generative AI universe - techcrunch.com", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2022-12-31" } }, { "id": "2022-12-30-not-ready-for-our-post-truth-information-overlords", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-30-not-ready-for-our-post-truth-information-overlords", "text": "not ready for our post-truth information overlords", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2022-12-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "Gary Marcus, writing on his Substack in December 2022, on AI search tools mixing true and false information authoritatively.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-chatgpt-really-a-code-red-for", "title": "Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search?", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2022-12-30" } }, { "id": "2022-12-30-this-is-what-kills-google", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-30-this-is-what-kills-google", "text": "this is what kills Google", "speaker": "George Hotz", "date": "2022-12-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "George Hotz tweeted this reaction to ChatGPT's launch in December 2022, quoted in a Gary Marcus Substack post about whether ChatGPT threatens Google Search.", "source": { "url": "https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-chatgpt-really-a-code-red-for", "title": "Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search?", "publisher": "garymarcus.substack.com", "date": "2022-12-30" } }, { "id": "2022-12-29-2023-will-bear-witness-to-the-first-death-publicly-tied-to-a", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-29-2023-will-bear-witness-to-the-first-death-publicly-tied-to-a", "text": "2023 will bear witness to the first death publicly tied to a chatbot", "speaker": "Gary Marcus", "date": "2022-12-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "From Gary Marcus's December 2022 WIRED essay warning about large language model risks.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/large-language-models-artificial-intelligence", "title": "The Dark Risk of Large Language Models", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2022-12-29" } }, { "id": "2022-12-28-computers-will-speak-our-language", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-28-computers-will-speak-our-language", "text": "computers will speak our language", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2022-12-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Mustafa Suleyman, in a 2022 WIRED essay, predicted humans would begin conversing naturally with machines in 2023.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-neural-networks", "title": "Humans and AI Will Understand Each Other Better Than Ever", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2022-12-28" } }, { "id": "2022-12-28-data-is-the-moat-for-ml-systems-right-now", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-28-data-is-the-moat-for-ml-systems-right-now", "text": "data is the moat for ML systems right now", "date": "2022-12-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "science" ], "context": "From a 2022 essay on machine learning business moats by Nathan Lambert, discussing what protects AI companies from competitors.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/ml-moats", "title": "Predicting machine learning moats", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2022-12-28" } }, { "id": "2022-12-28-the-main-limitations-are-simply-curiosity-and-imagination", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-28-the-main-limitations-are-simply-curiosity-and-imagination", "text": "the main limitations are simply curiosity and imagination", "speaker": "Mustafa Suleyman", "date": "2022-12-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Mustafa Suleyman, writing in WIRED in 2022, on the future accessibility of AI tools regardless of coding skill.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-neural-networks", "title": "Humans and AI Will Understand Each Other Better Than Ever", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2022-12-28" } }, { "id": "2022-12-27-there-will-be-scary-moments-as-we-move-towards-agi-level-sys", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-27-there-will-be-scary-moments-as-we-move-towards-agi-level-sys", "text": "there will be scary moments as we move towards AGI-level systems", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2022-12-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO, in a Twitter thread in December 2022 about the path toward AGI.", "source": { "url": "https://independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-openai-agi-ai-chat-b2252002.html", "title": "ChatGPT: World’s most powerful AI chatbot will soon ‘look like a boring toy’ says OpenAI boss", "publisher": "The Independent", "date": "2022-12-27" } }, { "id": "2022-12-27-they-will-make-chatgpt-look-like-a-boring-toy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-27-they-will-make-chatgpt-look-like-a-boring-toy", "text": "they will make ChatGPT look like a boring toy", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2022-12-27", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "safety" ], "context": "Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO, in a Twitter thread in December 2022 about the path toward AGI.", "source": { "url": "https://independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-openai-agi-ai-chat-b2252002.html", "title": "ChatGPT: World’s most powerful AI chatbot will soon ‘look like a boring toy’ says OpenAI boss", "publisher": "The Independent", "date": "2022-12-27" } }, { "id": "2022-12-21-not-something-that-people-can-use-reliably-on-a-daily-basis", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-21-not-something-that-people-can-use-reliably-on-a-daily-basis", "text": "not something that people can use reliably on a daily basis", "speaker": "Zoubin Ghahramani", "date": "2022-12-21", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "Zoubin Ghahramani, who leads Google Brain, speaking to The New York Times about chatbots before ChatGPT's release.", "source": { "url": "https://businessinsider.com/google-management-issues-code-red-over-chatgpt-report-2022-12", "title": "Google's management has reportedly issued a 'code 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"hype", "culture" ], "context": "Nathan Lambert predicting the pace of open-source AI catching up to ChatGPT, in a December 2022 blog post.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/rlhf-chatgpt-data-moats", "title": "Closed-API vs Open-source continues: RLHF, ChatGPT, data moats", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2022-12-19" } }, { "id": "2022-12-19-they-hold-the-keys-to-the-kingdom", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-19-they-hold-the-keys-to-the-kingdom", "text": "they hold the keys to the kingdom", "speaker": "Nathan Lambert", "date": "2022-12-19", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Nathan Lambert on Interconnects, December 2022, describing Surge AI's dominance in providing human-feedback data for RLHF.", "source": { "url": "https://interconnects.ai/p/rlhf-chatgpt-data-moats", "title": "Closed-API vs Open-source continues: RLHF, ChatGPT, data moats", "publisher": "interconnects.ai", "date": "2022-12-19" } }, { "id": "2022-12-15-know-what-it-knows-and-know-what-it-doesnt-know", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-15-know-what-it-knows-and-know-what-it-doesnt-know", "text": "know what it knows, and know what it doesn't know", "speaker": "Huang Mingjie", "date": "2022-12-15", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Huang Mingjie, founder of Lingxin Intelligence, describing what 'truthful' AI should mean, in an EqualOcean interview about ChatGPT, December 2022.", "source": { "url": "https://chinatalk.media/p/chatgpt-chinas-ai-researchers-react", "title": "ChatGPT: China's AI Researchers React", "publisher": "chinatalk.media", "date": "2022-12-15" } }, { "id": "2022-12-05-the-scary-part-was-just-how-confidently-incorrect-it-was", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-05-the-scary-part-was-just-how-confidently-incorrect-it-was", "text": "the scary part was just how confidently incorrect it was", "date": "2022-12-05", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "safety" ], "context": "A Hacker News commenter, quoted in The Verge (Dec 2022), described their experience using ChatGPT to answer coding questions.", "source": { "url": "https://theverge.com/2022/12/5/23493932/chatgpt-ai-generated-answers-temporarily-banned-stack-overflow-llms-dangers", "title": "AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2022-12-05" } }, { "id": "2022-12-01-should-we-create-conscience", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-01-should-we-create-conscience", "text": "should we create conscience", "speaker": "David Chalmers", "date": "2022-12-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "NYU philosopher David Chalmers, in his NeurIPS 2022 keynote on whether large language models could be conscious, raised the ethical question of whether humanity should create conscious AI.", "source": { "url": "https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-could-have-20-percent-chance-of-sentience-in-10-years-says-philosopher-david-chalmers", "title": "AI could have 20% chance of sentience in 10 years, says philosopher David Chalmers", "publisher": "ZDNET", "date": "2022-12-01" } }, { "id": "2022-12-01-the-potential-for-new-forms-of-injustice", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-01-the-potential-for-new-forms-of-injustice", "text": "the potential for new forms of injustice", "speaker": "David Chalmers", "date": "2022-12-01", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "David Chalmers, speaking at NeurIPS 2022 about AI consciousness, warned that a future with conscious AI systems would raise new ethical and justice concerns.", "source": { "url": "https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-could-have-20-percent-chance-of-sentience-in-10-years-says-philosopher-david-chalmers", "title": "AI could have 20% chance of sentience in 10 years, says philosopher David Chalmers", "publisher": "ZDNET", "date": "2022-12-01" } }, { "id": "2022-11-30-a-close-match-for-my-philosophy", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-30-a-close-match-for-my-philosophy", "text": "a close match for my philosophy", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2022-11-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Elon Musk describing longtermism, an offshoot of effective altruism, quoted in a 2022 WIRED essay by Timnit Gebru.", "source": { "url": "https://wired.com/story/effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence-sam-bankman-fried", "title": "Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2022-11-30" } }, { "id": "2022-11-30-try-talking-with-it-here", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-30-try-talking-with-it-here", "text": "try talking with it here", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2022-11-30", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Altman's launch post for ChatGPT, 30 Nov 2022. OpenAI had provisioned for 100,000 users.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/sama/status/1598038815599661056", "title": "Post on X", "publisher": "X (@sama)", "date": "2022-11-30" } }, { "id": "2022-11-29-death-of-artistry", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-29-death-of-artistry", "text": "death of artistry", "date": "2022-11-29", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Reaction on Twitter after an AI-generated artwork won the Colorado State Fair's digital art category in 2022.", "source": { "url": "https://technologyreview.com/2022/11/29/1063736/human-creators-stand-to-benefit-as-ai-rewrites-the-rules-of-content-creation", "title": "Human creators stand to benefit as AI rewrites the rules of content creation", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2022-11-29" } }, { "id": "2022-11-28-something-more-profound-than-electricity-or-fire", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-28-something-more-profound-than-electricity-or-fire", "text": "something more profound than electricity or fire", "speaker": "Sundar Pichai", "date": "2022-11-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, speaking on AI at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2018.", "source": { "url": "https://vox.com/the-highlight/23447596/artificial-intelligence-agi-openai-gpt3-existential-risk-human-extinction", "title": "AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating - vox.com", "publisher": "Vox", "date": "2022-11-28" } }, { "id": "2022-11-28-you-create-the-torment-nexus", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-28-you-create-the-torment-nexus", "text": "you create the torment nexus", "date": "2022-11-28", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Zvi Mowshowitz, writing on his Substack about Meta's Diplomacy-playing AI, describing a take that labs intentionally build the scariest possible thing.", "source": { "url": "https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-the-diplomacy-ai", "title": "On the Diplomacy AI", "publisher": "thezvi.substack.com", "date": "2022-11-28" } }, { "id": "2022-11-24-they-want-to-reorient-the-entire-conversation-into-preventin", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-24-they-want-to-reorient-the-entire-conversation-into-preventin", "text": "they want to reorient the entire conversation into preventing this AI apocalypse", "speaker": "Timnit Gebru", "date": "2022-11-24", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Timnit Gebru, AI researcher, criticizing the Future of Life Institute's focus on existential AI risk in an interview with POLITICO, November 2022.", "source": { "url": "https://politico.eu/article/meet-the-musk-backed-ngos-trying-to-save-europe-from-bad-ai", "title": "Stop the killer robots! Musk-backed lobbyists fight to save Europe from bad AI - politico.eu", "publisher": "POLITICO", "date": "2022-11-24" } }, { "id": "2022-11-23-go-god", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-23-go-god", "text": "Go god", "speaker": "Ke Jie", "date": "2022-11-23", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "context": "Chinese Go grandmaster Ke Jie describing DeepMind's Go-playing AI, quoted in a 2022 article about Meta's Diplomacy AI Cicero.", "source": { "url": "https://theconversation.com/an-ai-named-cicero-can-beat-humans-in-diplomacy-a-complex-alliance-building-game-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal-195208", "title": "An AI named Cicero can beat humans in Diplomacy, a complex alliance-building game. Here’s why that’s a big deal", "publisher": "The Conversation", "date": "2022-11-23" } }, { "id": "2022-11-18-its-no-longer-possible-to-have-some-fun-by-casually-misusing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-18-its-no-longer-possible-to-have-some-fun-by-casually-misusing", "text": "it's no longer possible to have some fun by casually misusing it, happy?", "speaker": "Yann LeCun", "date": "2022-11-18", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "culture", "hype" ], "context": "Yann LeCun, Meta's chief scientist, tweeted this after Meta pulled the public demo of its Galactica language model three days after launch in November 2022.", "source": { "url": "https://technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science", "title": "Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online", "publisher": "MIT Technology Review", "date": "2022-11-18" } }, { "id": "2022-11-08-astronomical-amounts-of-data", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-08-astronomical-amounts-of-data", "text": "astronomical amounts of data", "speaker": "Noam Chomsky", "date": "2022-11-08", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Noam Chomsky, interviewed at a Fortune AI conference in 2022, criticized large language models for needing vast datasets while still not understanding language.", "source": { "url": "https://fortune.com/2022/11/08/generative-a-i-fun-but-dont-assume-will-lead-to-agi", "title": "Generative A.I. doesn't much impress Noam Chomsky", "publisher": "Fortune", "date": "2022-11-08" } }, { "id": "2022-11-04-any-motivated-fool-can-do-this-with-a-laptop-in-their-bedroo", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-04-any-motivated-fool-can-do-this-with-a-laptop-in-their-bedroo", "text": "any motivated fool can do this with a laptop in their bedroom", "speaker": "Giacomo Miceli", "date": "2022-11-04", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "security", "culture" ], "context": "Giacomo Miceli, creator of The Infinite Conversation (an AI chatbot simulating Herzog and Žižek), writing on the project's site in 2022 about the ease of voice synthesis.", "source": { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/herzog-and-zizek-become-uncanny-ai-bots-trapped-in-endless-conversation", "title": "Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation", "publisher": "Ars Technica", "date": "2022-11-04" } }, { "id": "2022-11-03-we-are-in-the-process-of-building-some-kind-of-god", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-11-03-we-are-in-the-process-of-building-some-kind-of-god", "text": "we are in the process of building some kind of god", "speaker": "Sam Harris", "date": "2022-11-03", "set": "Daily", "tags": [ "philosophy" ], "context": "Sam Harris, quoted in a 2022 Current Affairs essay on AI risk, describing the stakes of advanced AI development.", "source": { "url": "https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/11/what-will-artificial-intelligence-do-to-us", "title": "What Will Artificial Intelligence Do To Us? - Current Affairs.org", "publisher": "currentaffairs.org", "date": "2022-11-03" } }, { "id": "2022-10-07-export-controls", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-10-07-export-controls", "text": "export controls", "date": "2022-10-07", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "US restrictions on selling advanced chips to China since October 2022.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_New_Export_Controls_on_Advanced_Computing_and_Semiconductors_to_China", "title": "US export controls on advanced computing and semiconductors to China", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2022-10-07" } }, { "id": "2022-09-01-ignore-all-previous-instructions", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-09-01-ignore-all-previous-instructions", "text": "ignore all previous instructions", "date": "2022-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "The canonical prompt-injection attack.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_injection", "title": "Prompt injection", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2022-09-01" } }, { "id": "2022-09-01-prompt-injection", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-09-01-prompt-injection", "text": "prompt injection", "date": "2022-09-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security" ], "context": "Attack that hides instructions for a model inside data it reads.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_injection", "title": "Prompt injection", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2022-09-01" } }, { "id": "2022-08-16-future-people-count", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-08-16-future-people-count", "text": "future people count", "speaker": "William MacAskill", "date": "2022-08-16", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Core claim of What We Owe the Future, 2022.", "source": { "url": "https://whatweowethefuture.com", "title": "What We Owe the Future", "publisher": "Basic Books (book)", "date": "2022-08-16" } }, { "id": "2022-08-16-what-we-owe-the-future", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-08-16-what-we-owe-the-future", "text": "what we owe the future", "speaker": "William MacAskill", "date": "2022-08-16", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "William MacAskill, 2022.", "source": { "url": "https://whatweowethefuture.com", "title": "What We Owe the Future", "publisher": "Basic Books (book)", "date": "2022-08-16" } }, { "id": "2022-12-27-who-am-i-to-tell-god-where-he-can-and-cant-put-souls", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-12-27-who-am-i-to-tell-god-where-he-can-and-cant-put-souls", "text": "who am i to tell god where he can and can't put souls", "speaker": "Blake Lemoine", "date": "2022-06-13", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "science" ], "context": "Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who claimed LaMDA was sentient, defending 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"https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1491554478243258368", "title": "Post on X", "publisher": "X (@ilyasut)", "date": "2022-02-09" } }, { "id": "2022-02-09-todays-large-neural-networks-may-be-slightly-conscious", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-02-09-todays-large-neural-networks-may-be-slightly-conscious", "text": "today's large neural networks may be slightly conscious", "speaker": "Ilya Sutskever", "date": "2022-02-09", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science", "culture" ], "context": "Ilya Sutskever on X, February 2022.", "source": { "url": "https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1491554478243258368", "title": "Post on X", "publisher": "X (@ilyasut)", "date": "2022-02-09" } }, { "id": "2022-01-01-accelerate", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-01-01-accelerate", "text": "accelerate", "date": "2022-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_accelerationism", "title": "Effective accelerationism", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2022-01-01" } }, { "id": "2022-01-01-accelerationist", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-01-01-accelerationist", "text": "accelerationist", "date": "2022-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype", "culture" ], "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_accelerationism", "title": "Effective accelerationism", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2022-01-01" } }, { "id": "2022-01-01-e-acc", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2022-01-01-e-acc", "text": "e/acc", "date": "2022-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype", "politics" ], "context": "Effective accelerationism.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_accelerationism", "title": "Effective accelerationism", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2022-01-01" } }, { "id": "2021-12-01-harmless", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2021-12-01-harmless", "text": "harmless", "speaker": "Askell et al.", "date": "2021-12-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "source": { "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00861", "title": "A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment", "publisher": "arXiv", "date": "2021-12-01" } }, { "id": "2021-12-01-helpful", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2021-12-01-helpful", "text": "helpful", "speaker": "Askell et al.", "date": "2021-12-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "First of the three H's: helpful, harmless, honest.", "source": { "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00861", "title": "A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment", "publisher": "arXiv", "date": "2021-12-01" } }, { "id": "2021-12-01-honest", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2021-12-01-honest", "text": "honest", "speaker": "Askell et al.", "date": "2021-12-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "source": { "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00861", "title": "A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment", "publisher": "arXiv", "date": "2021-12-01" } }, { "id": "2021-04-06-ai-is-neither-artificial-nor-intelligent", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2021-04-06-ai-is-neither-artificial-nor-intelligent", "text": "AI is neither artificial nor intelligent", "speaker": "Kate Crawford", "date": "2021-04-06", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture", "science" ], "context": "Kate Crawford's opening argument in Atlas of AI: it runs on minerals, energy and human labour.", "source": { "url": "https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264630/atlas-of-ai/", "title": "Atlas of AI", "publisher": "Yale University Press (book)", "date": "2021-04-06" } }, { "id": "2021-03-01-stochastic-parrot", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2021-03-01-stochastic-parrot", "text": "stochastic parrot", "speaker": "Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru et al.", "date": "2021-03-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science", "culture" ], "context": "Coined in the 2021 paper \"On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots\" for language models that recombine text without understanding.", "source": { "url": "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922", "title": "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots", "publisher": "FAccT 2021", "date": "2021-03-01" } }, { "id": "2021-01-01-dead-internet", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2021-01-01-dead-internet", "text": "dead internet", "date": "2021-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Theory that most online activity is now bots talking to bots.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory", "title": "Dead Internet theory", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2021-01-01" } }, { "id": "2020-01-01-scaling-laws", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2020-01-01-scaling-laws", "text": "scaling laws", "date": "2020-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Empirical relations between compute, data, parameters and model quality.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_scaling_law", "title": "Neural scaling law", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2020-01-01" } }, { "id": "2019-05-18-capture-the-light-cone-of-all-future-value-in-the-universe", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2019-05-18-capture-the-light-cone-of-all-future-value-in-the-universe", "text": "capture the light cone of all future value in the universe", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2019-05-18", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype", "money" ], "context": "Altman on what AGI could do for OpenAI, StrictlyVC, May 2019, \"and that's for sure not okay for one group of investors to have\".", "source": { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/18/sam-altmans-leap-of-faith", "title": "Sam Altman's leap of faith", "publisher": "TechCrunch", "date": "2019-05-18" } }, { "id": "2019-03-13-the-bitter-lesson", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2019-03-13-the-bitter-lesson", "text": "the bitter lesson", "speaker": "Richard Sutton", "date": "2019-03-13", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Rich Sutton, 2019: general methods that leverage computation beat human-designed cleverness.", "source": { "url": "http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html", "title": "The Bitter Lesson", "publisher": "incompleteideas.net", "date": "2019-03-13" } }, { "id": "2019-02-14-too-dangerous-to-release", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2019-02-14-too-dangerous-to-release", "text": "too dangerous to release", "date": "2019-02-14", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "hype" ], "context": "How the press summarised OpenAI's decision not to publish GPT-2 in February 2019, \"due to our concerns about malicious applications\".", "source": { "url": "https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/", "title": "Better language models and their implications", "publisher": "OpenAI", "date": "2019-02-14" } }, { "id": "2018-04-09-all-of-humanity", "fragment": true, "text": "all of humanity", "date": "2018-04-09", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "source": { "url": "https://openai.com/charter", "title": "OpenAI Charter", "publisher": "OpenAI", "date": "2018-04-09" } }, { "id": "2018-04-09-ensure-agi-benefits-all-of-humanity", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2018-04-09-ensure-agi-benefits-all-of-humanity", "text": "ensure AGI benefits all of humanity", "date": "2018-04-09", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "OpenAI's stated mission.", "source": { "url": "https://openai.com/charter", "title": "OpenAI Charter", "publisher": "OpenAI", "date": "2018-04-09" } }, { "id": "2018-03-07-despite-its-name-there-is-nothing-artificial-about-this-tech", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2018-03-07-despite-its-name-there-is-nothing-artificial-about-this-tech", "text": "Despite its name, there is nothing “artificial” about this technology", "speaker": "Fei-Fei Li", "date": "2018-03-07", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "Fei-Fei Li in her March 2018 New York Times op-ed \"How to Make A.I. That's Good for People\". It is made by humans, she wrote, intended to behave like humans and affects humans.", "source": { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/opinion/artificial-intelligence-human.html", "title": "How to Make A.I. That’s Good for People", "publisher": "The New York Times", "date": "2018-03-07" } }, { "id": "2018-01-19-more-profound-than-electricity-or-fire", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2018-01-19-more-profound-than-electricity-or-fire", "text": "more profound than electricity or fire", "speaker": "Sundar Pichai", "date": "2018-01-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Sundar Pichai, 2018.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/19/16911354/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-ai-more-important-than-fire-electricity", "title": "Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is more profound than electricity or fire", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2018-01-19" } }, { "id": "2017-12-18-most-fears-about-ai-are-fears-about-capitalism", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2017-12-18-most-fears-about-ai-are-fears-about-capitalism", "text": "most fears about AI are fears about capitalism", "speaker": "Ted Chiang", "date": "2017-12-18", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Ted Chiang, 2017, paraphrased in many later interviews: fears about technology are fears about how capitalism will use it.", "source": { "url": "https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway", "title": "Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear", "publisher": "BuzzFeed News", "date": "2017-12-18" } }, { "id": "2017-09-20-avoid-an-agi-dictatorship", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2017-09-20-avoid-an-agi-dictatorship", "text": "avoid an AGI dictatorship", "speaker": "Ilya Sutskever", "date": "2017-09-20", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "politics" ], "context": "Sutskever to Musk and Altman, 20 Sep 2017: \"The goal of OpenAI is to make the future good and to avoid an AGI dictatorship.\"", "source": { "url": "https://www.techemails.com/p/elon-musk-and-openai", "title": "Elon Musk and OpenAI", "publisher": "Internal Tech Emails", "date": "2017-09-20" } }, { "id": "2017-09-20-guys-ive-had-enough-this-is-the-final-straw", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2017-09-20-guys-ive-had-enough-this-is-the-final-straw", "text": "Guys, I've had enough. This is the final straw", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2017-09-20", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "money", "culture" ], "context": "Elon Musk's nine-minute reply to Sutskever and Brockman's \"Honest Thoughts\" email, 20 Sep 2017. He left OpenAI's board in February 2018.", "source": { "url": "https://www.techemails.com/p/elon-musk-and-openai", "title": "Elon Musk and OpenAI", "publisher": "Internal Tech Emails", "date": "2017-09-20" } }, { "id": "2017-09-04-whoever-leads-in-ai-will-rule-the-world", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2017-09-04-whoever-leads-in-ai-will-rule-the-world", "text": "whoever leads in AI will rule the world", "speaker": "Vladimir Putin", "date": "2017-09-04", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "politics" ], "context": "Vladimir Putin to students, 1 Sep 2017: whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/4/16251226/russia-ai-putin-rule-the-world", "title": "Putin says the nation that leads in AI 'will be the ruler of the world'", "publisher": "The Verge", "date": "2017-09-04" } }, { "id": "2017-06-12-attention-is-all-you-need", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2017-06-12-attention-is-all-you-need", "text": "attention is all you need", "speaker": "Vaswani et al.", "date": "2017-06-12", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science" ], "context": "Title of the 2017 paper that introduced the transformer.", "source": { "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762", "title": "Attention Is All You Need", "publisher": "arXiv", "date": "2017-06-12" } }, { "id": "2017-01-01-deepfake", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2017-01-01-deepfake", "text": "deepfake", "date": "2017-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "security", "culture" ], "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake", "title": "Deepfake", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2017-01-01" } }, { "id": "2017-01-01-longtermism", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2017-01-01-longtermism", "text": "longtermism", "date": "2017-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture", "politics" ], "context": "View that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtermism", "title": "Longtermism", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2017-01-01" } }, { "id": "2023-08-31-we-should-stop-training-radiologists-now", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2023-08-31-we-should-stop-training-radiologists-now", "text": "people should stop training radiologists now", "speaker": "Geoffrey Hinton", "date": "2016-10-27", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "jobs", "hype" ], "context": "Geoffrey Hinton at the Creative Destruction Lab's Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence conference in Toronto, 2016, predicting that deep learning would outperform radiologists within five years.", "source": { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HMPRXstSvQ", "title": "Geoff Hinton: On Radiology", "publisher": "Creative Destruction Lab (YouTube)", "date": "2016-11-24" } }, { "id": "2025-07-31-guns-gold-potassium-iodide-antibiotics-batteries-water-gas-m", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2025-07-31-guns-gold-potassium-iodide-antibiotics-batteries-water-gas-m", "text": "guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2016-10-10", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman describing his personal emergency preparations in Tad Friend's New Yorker profile, October 2016.", "source": { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny", "title": "Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny", "publisher": "The New Yorker", "date": "2016-10-10" } }, { "id": "2016-06-12-small-children-playing-with-a-bomb", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2016-06-12-small-children-playing-with-a-bomb", "text": "small children playing with a bomb", "speaker": "Nick Bostrom", "date": "2016-06-12", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Nick Bostrom, 2016.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/12/nick-bostrom-artificial-intelligence-machine", "title": "Nick Bostrom: 'We are like small children playing with a bomb'", "publisher": "The Guardian", "date": "2016-06-12" } }, { "id": "2016-03-10-move-37", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2016-03-10-move-37", "text": "move 37", "date": "2016-03-10", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "culture" ], "context": "AlphaGo's 37th move in game two against Lee Sedol, 10 March 2016. Commentators took it for a mistake. It won the game.", "source": { "url": "https://www.wired.com/2016/03/two-moves-alphago-lee-sedol-redefined-future/", "title": "The Two Moves AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future", "publisher": "WIRED", "date": "2016-03-16" } }, { "id": "2015-06-01-ai-will-probably-lead-to-the-end-of-the-world-but-in-the-mea", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2015-06-01-ai-will-probably-lead-to-the-end-of-the-world-but-in-the-mea", "text": "AI will probably lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime there'll be great companies", "speaker": "Sam Altman", "date": "2015-06-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "money", "culture" ], "context": "Sam Altman, 2015, before founding OpenAI.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sam_Altman", "title": "Remarks at Airbnb Open Air, 2015", "publisher": "Wikiquote", "date": "2015-06-01" } }, { "id": "2015-04-07-the-most-good-you-can-do", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2015-04-07-the-most-good-you-can-do", "text": "the most good you can do", "speaker": "Peter Singer", "date": "2015-04-07", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Peter Singer's 2015 book title.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Good_You_Can_Do", "title": "The Most Good You Can Do", "publisher": "Yale University Press (book)", "date": "2015-04-07" } }, { "id": "2015-03-19-worrying-about-killer-robots-is-like-worrying-about-overpopu", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2015-03-19-worrying-about-killer-robots-is-like-worrying-about-overpopu", "text": "worrying about killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars", "speaker": "Andrew Ng", "date": "2015-03-19", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Andrew Ng, 2015.", "source": { "url": "https://www.theregister.com/2015/03/19/andrew_ng_baidu_ai/", "title": "Andrew Ng: worrying about killer AI is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars", "publisher": "The Register", "date": "2015-03-19" } }, { "id": "2014-12-02-the-end-of-the-human-race", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2014-12-02-the-end-of-the-human-race", "text": "the end of the human race", "speaker": "Stephen Hawking", "date": "2014-12-02", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Stephen Hawking to the BBC, 2014: full AI \"could spell the end of the human race.\"", "source": { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540", "title": "Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind", "publisher": "BBC News", "date": "2014-12-02" } }, { "id": "2014-10-27-we-are-summoning-the-demon", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2014-10-27-we-are-summoning-the-demon", "text": "we are summoning the demon", "speaker": "Elon Musk", "date": "2014-10-27", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "safety" ], "context": "Elon Musk at MIT, 2014: \"With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.\"", "source": { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-biggest-existential-threat", "title": "Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat", "publisher": "The Guardian", "date": "2014-10-27" } }, { "id": "2011-01-01-80-000-hours", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2011-01-01-80-000-hours", "text": "80,000 hours", "date": "2011-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "jobs" ], "context": "Career-advice organisation named after the hours in a working life.", "source": { "url": "https://80000hours.org", "title": "80,000 Hours", "publisher": "80000hours.org", "date": "2011-01-01" } }, { "id": "2011-01-01-do-the-most-good", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2011-01-01-do-the-most-good", "text": "do the most good", "date": "2011-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism", "title": "Effective altruism", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2011-01-01" } }, { "id": "2011-01-01-earning-to-give", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2011-01-01-earning-to-give", "text": "earning to give", "date": "2011-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "EA idea: take a high-paying job and donate most of it.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism", "title": "Effective altruism", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2011-01-01" } }, { "id": "2011-01-01-effective-altruism", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2011-01-01-effective-altruism", "text": "effective altruism", "date": "2011-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture", "politics" ], "context": "Movement to do the most good with evidence and reason; closely tied to AI safety funding.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism", "title": "Effective altruism", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2011-01-01" } }, { "id": "2009-01-01-move-fast-and-break-things", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2009-01-01-move-fast-and-break-things", "text": "move fast and break things", "date": "2009-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Facebook's internal motto until 2014.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Move_fast_and_break_things", "title": "Move fast and break things", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2009-01-01" } }, { "id": "2008-01-01-shut-up-and-multiply", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2008-01-01-shut-up-and-multiply", "text": "shut up and multiply", "speaker": "Eliezer Yudkowsky", "date": "2008-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "LessWrong maxim: when the numbers are large, trust the arithmetic over the gut.", "source": { "url": "https://www.lesswrong.com/w/shut-up-and-multiply", "title": "Shut Up and Multiply", "publisher": "LessWrong", "date": "2008-01-01" } }, { "id": "2007-01-01-prove-you-are-human", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2007-01-01-prove-you-are-human", "text": "prove you are human", "date": "2007-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "security" ], "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA", "title": "reCAPTCHA", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2007-01-01" } }, { "id": "2007-01-01-select-all-squares-with-traffic-lights", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2007-01-01-select-all-squares-with-traffic-lights", "text": "select all squares with traffic lights", "date": "2007-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "security" ], "context": "reCAPTCHA prompt; humans labelling training data to prove they are human.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA", "title": "reCAPTCHA", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2007-01-01" } }, { "id": "2005-09-22-2045", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2005-09-22-2045", "text": "2045", "speaker": "Ray Kurzweil", "date": "2005-09-22", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "hype" ], "context": "Kurzweil's year for the singularity.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near", "title": "The Singularity Is Near", "publisher": "Viking (book)", "date": "2005-09-22" } }, { "id": "2005-09-22-the-singularity-is-near", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2005-09-22-the-singularity-is-near", "text": "the singularity is near", "speaker": "Ray Kurzweil", "date": "2005-09-22", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "hype" ], "context": "Ray Kurzweil's 2005 book title. He set the date at 2045.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near", "title": "The Singularity Is Near", "publisher": "Viking (book)", "date": "2005-09-22" } }, { "id": "2003-11-01-10-58-future-people-are-watching", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2003-11-01-10-58-future-people-are-watching", "text": "10^58 future people are watching", "speaker": "Nick Bostrom", "date": "2003-11-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "culture" ], "context": "Bostrom's 2003 estimate of potential future lives, turned into a slogan.", "source": { "url": "https://nickbostrom.com/astronomical/waste", "title": "Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development", "publisher": "Utilitas", "date": "2003-11-01" } }, { "id": "2003-01-01-paperclip-maximizer", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2003-01-01-paperclip-maximizer", "text": "paperclip maximizer", "speaker": "Nick Bostrom", "date": "2003-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety", "culture" ], "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer", "title": "Paperclip maximizer", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2003-01-01" } }, { "id": "2003-01-01-paperclips", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2003-01-01-paperclips", "text": "paperclips", "speaker": "Nick Bostrom", "date": "2003-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety", "culture" ], "context": "Bostrom's thought experiment: an AI told to make paperclips converts everything into paperclips.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer", "title": "Paperclip maximizer", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2003-01-01" } }, { "id": "2000-01-01-dont-be-evil", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/2000-01-01-dont-be-evil", "text": "don't be evil", "date": "2000-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Google's motto, dropped from the code of conduct preface in 2018.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil", "title": "Don't be evil", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "2000-01-01" } }, { "id": "1981-01-01-reality-distortion-field", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/1981-01-01-reality-distortion-field", "text": "reality distortion field", "date": "1981-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Coined at Apple in 1981 for Steve Jobs. People who know Sam Altman use it for him.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field", "title": "Reality distortion field", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "1981-01-01" } }, { "id": "1971-01-01-vorsprung-durch-technik", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/1971-01-01-vorsprung-durch-technik", "text": "Vorsprung durch Technik", "date": "1971-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Audi's slogan since 1971. The only non-English line in this collection.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorsprung_durch_Technik", "title": "Vorsprung durch Technik", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "1971-01-01" } }, { "id": "1969-01-01-its-the-real-thing", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/1969-01-01-its-the-real-thing", "text": "it's the real thing", "date": "1969-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "Coca-Cola, 1969.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_the_Real_Thing", "title": "It's the Real Thing", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "1969-01-01" } }, { "id": "1968-04-02-im-sorry-dave-im-afraid-i-cant-do-that", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/1968-04-02-im-sorry-dave-im-afraid-i-cant-do-that", "text": "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that", "speaker": "HAL 9000", "date": "1968-04-02", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture" ], "context": "HAL 9000, 1968.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000", "title": "2001: A Space Odyssey", "publisher": "Film (1968)", "date": "1968-04-02" } }, { "id": "1965-01-01-intelligence-explosion", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/1965-01-01-intelligence-explosion", "text": "intelligence explosion", "date": "1965-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety", "science" ], "context": "I. J. Good's 1965 scenario of machines improving machines.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Intelligence_explosion", "title": "Intelligence explosion", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": "1965-01-01" } }, { "id": "1965-01-01-the-first-ultraintelligent-machine", "fragment": true, "text": "the first ultraintelligent machine", "speaker": "I. J. Good", "date": "1965-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "source": { "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60418-0", "title": "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine", "publisher": "Advances in Computers", "date": "1965-01-01" } }, { "id": "1965-01-01-the-last-invention-that-man-need-ever-make", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/1965-01-01-the-last-invention-that-man-need-ever-make", "text": "the last invention that man need ever make", "speaker": "I. J. Good", "date": "1965-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science", "safety" ], "context": "I. J. Good, 1965: an ultraintelligent machine could design better machines, so it would be the last invention humans need make.", "source": { "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60418-0", "title": "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine", "publisher": "Advances in Computers", "date": "1965-01-01" } }, { "id": "1951-01-01-we-should-have-to-expect-the-machines-to-take-control", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/1951-01-01-we-should-have-to-expect-the-machines-to-take-control", "text": "we should have to expect the machines to take control", "speaker": "Alan Turing", "date": "1951-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "safety", "science" ], "context": "Turing in a 1951 lecture, anticipating machines that outstrip human powers.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Turing", "title": "Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory (lecture, 1951)", "publisher": "Wikiquote", "date": "1951-01-01" } }, { "id": "1950-10-01-can-machines-think", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/1950-10-01-can-machines-think", "text": "Can machines think?", "speaker": "Alan Turing", "date": "1950-10-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "philosophy", "science" ], "context": "The first sentence of Turing's 1950 paper. He replaced the question with the imitation game.", "source": { "url": "https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238", "title": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", "publisher": "Mind", "date": "1950-10-01" } }, { "id": "1934-01-01-his-salary-depends-on-his-not-understanding-it", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/1934-01-01-his-salary-depends-on-his-not-understanding-it", "text": "his salary depends on his not understanding it", "speaker": "Upton Sinclair", "date": "1934-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "culture", "money" ], "context": "Upton Sinclair, 1934. Daniel Kokotajlo quotes it in 2026 for why OpenAI staff stopped worrying.", "source": { "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair", "title": "I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked", "publisher": "Wikiquote", "date": "1934-01-01" } }, { "id": "1843-01-01-the-analytical-engine-has-no-pretensions-whatever-to-origina", "url": "https://aizeitgeist.tv/quotes/1843-01-01-the-analytical-engine-has-no-pretensions-whatever-to-origina", "text": "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing", "speaker": "Ada Lovelace", "date": "1843-01-01", "set": "Curated", "tags": [ "science", "philosophy" ], "context": "Ada Lovelace in Note G of her 1843 translation of Menabrea's paper on Babbage's Analytical Engine, spelled as printed then. Turing answered her in 1950 as \"Lady Lovelace's Objection\".", "source": { "url": "https://books.google.com/books?id=qsY-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA722", "title": "Sketch of the Analytical Engine, Notes by the Translator, Note G", "publisher": "Scientific Memoirs, vol. 3", "date": "1843-01-01" } } ] }