“Superintelligence” is not the problem

Tinmit Gebru, one of the winners of this year’s Right Livelihood award, often referred to as the alternative Nobel Prize, is a young woman who is working hard to contain the genie that is AI and unlike many of those who write and speak about AI she actually knows what she’s talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru

Here’s an article in today’s Guardian where she talks about some of the real problems with AI:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/01/forget-superintelligence-error-prone-ai-nearly-sparked-world-war-iii-this-month

And here’s another story that might be of interest to all you AI resisters out there.

https://links.newyorker.com/z/c/977/5c411de61fff414fb01d2592632dac13/7b53c073cd6c4421a48d667a009bb45b