Ben Rhodes
American writer and former official; Deputy National Security Advisor to Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, co-host of Pod Save the World and author of After the Fall.
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Their wordsListen: we need to pay closer attention to AI right now. Because the tipping point that will determine our future is fast approaching.
↗Humanism in an Age of AIbenrhodes1.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIndeed, when we look back on this era, Trump is likely to be the B story compared to the onset of AI and the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of tech oligarchs.
↗Humanism in an Age of AIbenrhodes1.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut there is another important reason for the striking inroads in red states: the people in those places have lived under uniformly Republican government and incessant culture wars for years now. Apparently, some of them are getting tired of it.
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Their wordsWhat’s clear is that the risks are growing faster than our will and capacity to contain them, wherever they may lead.
↗Is Anyone in Control of AI?benrhodes1.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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AI will go unregulated until we either choose to regulate it or a catastrophe compels us to.
Their wordsUntil, presumably, we either choose to regulate AI or a catastrophic event compels us to do so. Meanwhile, our very sense of what it means to be human may change before we understand what happened.
↗Is Anyone in Control of AI?benrhodes1.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBy clinging to the aberration narrative, Democrats (and never-Trump independents and Republicans) could simultaneously occupy a moral high ground without confronting the breadth of the rebuke and challenge posed by Trump’s ascent
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Their wordsOf course, this is what we’ve been told would happen over the course of the 21st century. Yet at the precise time that what was foreseen has happened, the belief that human beings should do something about climate change has receded.
↗Let the Illusions Diebenrhodes1.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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War is being normalized: escalations in Eastern Europe and the Middle East no longer shock anyone.
Their wordsSecond, war is being normalized. It is no longer shocking, or even surprising, to read about the latest escalation in Eastern Europe or the Middle East – two thirds of the map that made up the two World Wars.
↗Let the Illusions Diebenrhodes1.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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The guardrails around power have been steadily dismantled, particularly in the United States.
Their wordsFirst, power is running amok like an uncaged predator. Yes, there have always been powerful and power-hungry people in the world. But there has been a steady dismantling of the guardrails around power, particularly in the United States.
↗Let the Illusions Diebenrhodes1.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsBut anything worthwhile that I’ve written has ended up somewhere I didn’t expect – the sentences lead me in the direction of an idea or image that I didn’t have at the outset, a new way of understanding or seeing a piece of the world.