Debating the Morality of Dario Amodei

A debate with Zack Korman on the morality of Dario Amodei specifically, and Anthropic in general. Zack's version of the video: https://youtu.be/mQ9-YoE9ykE

Rethinking AI Harnesses

Why we should think of the AI harness not as a coding tool, but as an Intent Engineering system that manages your entire life — a LifeOS. https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS

Why We Need Some AI Model Controls

My argument for why we need some AI model controls.

AI Predicts the Text of Answers

A logical argument and demonstration of how AI has one type of understanding while lacking another. https://aiunderstands.ai 

Most Companies Aren't Anywhere Near Ready for AI

Most Companies Aren't Anywhere Near Ready for AI. It's not that companies aren't using AI—it's that they can't.

We're All Building a Single Digital Assistant

There's tons of confusion about what we're all building towards with Personal AI. Are we building Agents? AI Harnesses? To what end? In this video I lay why I think we're all heading towards a single place that we should start getting ready for now. I think getting this early will put you 1-3 years…

Why AI Will Replace Knowledge Workers

A longer form discussion on exactly how and why AI will replace knowledge workers.

Why I Believe in SOTA Models Over Custom Ones

I think the future is cheaper and Open Source SOTA models combined with context, not custom, narrow models.

AI Quality Inversion

A troubling thought about what we will think about high-quality content in the future. 

The Great Transition

There are a bunch of different transitions happening right now—all at the same time, all (I think) heading in the same direction. Here is a long-form exploration of the various pieces.