We. Are. Not. Ready.

Whatever you think about 🧠 AI ... #hype or #human_obsolescence ... know this:

Government oversight + regulation is demonstrably feeble even in the face of even really obvious, slow-moving and tangible threats:

• obesity

• smoking

• climate change

• education

• etc…

We are incapable of doing obvious things well.

So if you truly believe that we (humanity, the UK, the West, whatever) has even the will, much less the wherewithal to weather the storm we're brewing ...

... you need a serious rethink.

OpenAI's new o1 model - which is as good as free to use - already demonstrates an IQ of 120 (above ~90% of all humans) ... and they literally described it as an experimental approach to a new modelling technique.

… and they're in a competitive landscape with #Google and #Meta and #Anthropic and #xAI and that's just what the US is cooking up...

We have literally no concept what's about to hit us.

We have literally no concept of how quickly it's accelerating.

We have literally no plan for 8,000,000,000 obsolete humans.

The only thing we can know for certain is that we're totally unequipped to manage socioeconomic disruption well ...

... and if you really still don't believe me... listen to Helen Toner (below) who puts it much better (perhaps less drastically) than me ... because she knows a lot more about this than me ...

... and if you still don't believe me, come talk to me (or read my next post) about how I select and write 1,000 current news articles a day with zero staff ... or how I'm starting to replace a dozen lawyers and a team of accountants with a 90:10 AI:human split ... and that 10% is frankly: on the rocks already.

The world is about to change with a big bump. We. Are. Not. Ready.

At least the dinosaurs can't be blamed for throwing the rock themselves. 🦖 ☄️ 🤦‍♂️