Dispatches from the Empire


The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality.

I’m incredibly nervous about the future.

Not only will this enable the spread of outright lies (that humans cannot discern), but more frighteningly, it will encourage plausible deniability.

Shameful, distasteful, or immoral behavior can merely be attributed to AI. Celebrities, state actors, politicians…

The human brain will not be capable of handling the next stage of AI development.