AI: Purpose Driven Policy

On-Device AI: A Cyberweapon in Every Pocket

PC and smartphone manufacturers are racing to put AI chips into their devices. Eager…

AI, Jobs, and a Widow Named Sal

“My basic model of the next decade is that the marginal cost of intelligence … [is] going to trend rapidly towards zero.” — Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

“The peasants are starving? Why, let them eat cake!” — Unknown, but often attributed to Marie…

“AI Delegation” — The Skill Our Kids Will Need Most?

There is a vigorous debate underway about the role Generative AI should play in education. Should we keep the technology out? Actively hunt down things written by ChatGPT? Develop GAI-based tutoring systems?

AI & UBI: A New Feudalism?

AI leaders are making strong statements about the looming employment apocalypse. AI is poised to boost productivity which is likely to result in fewer employees necessary to do the same work. Indeed, some disciplines may disappear entirely and be replaced by automation. History…

OpenAtom Conclusion: Ending Lassiez-faire AI

AI Demands National Purpose and Urgency

Generative AI heralds the dawn of a new era for which we, as a nation and as western society, are wholly unprepared. The power of free market capitalism and neural science has handed the…