The relentless rise of atmospheric CO2 since 1950
The Keeling Curve shows atmospheric CO2’s relentless rise (click for full size) In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide at the Mauna…
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UL Top 10 AI Risks (v1)
Given the speed of AI improvement and adoption, it’s hard for most people to know what to be concerned about, and what to do about…
Functional vs. Technical AGI | Daniel Miessler
I think we should make a distinction between Functional AGI and Technical AGI. Functional AGI is what I use in my definition of AGI—basically an…
We have Enough AI for AGI
I wrote recently about the difference between Functional and Technical AGI. I argued that Technical AGI is the real deal (AI that can generalize it’s…
Star Wars Fail | Daniel Miessler
I’m suddenly re-pissed off about John Boyega’s character in Star Wars. But way worse than before because it’s all much clearer looking backwards. We basically…
We Can’t Really Affect AI Security
We’re about to get precisely the right amount of AI Security. No more and no less. I’ve talked before about what I called the Efficient…
I Have Two Groups of AI Friends
I have two groups of very smart cybersecurity friends, and they see AI completely differently. The first group thinks AI is mostly a scam, like…
How I See AI Affecting Education
By default AI will magnify gaps between good and bad students June 1, 2025 I’ve got a one-liner for what AI will do to education.…
The Chinese Room Problem With the ‘LLMs only predict the next token’ Argument
I’m sure you’ve heard the argument that LLMs aren’t really thinking because, according to them, LLMs are just predicting the next token… And that output…
Why Google I/O Scared This 2007 Apple Fanboy for the First Time
As an Apple Fanboy going back to 2007, this is the first year I’ve felt fear for Apple’s future. And after just watching Apple’s WWDC…
How to Talk to AI
There’s a popular idea going around right now about renaming “prompt engineering” to “context engineering.” The argument is that context engineering better captures the true…
We’re All in Fractal Microcults
I think we’re all in microcults now. Fractal microcults. Infinitely small ones. Cults of one. Not everyone, of course, but so many of the people…