Generative AI and its effects and potential effects on individuals, communities, societies, civilizations, humanity. Explore AI, a collection of 48 posts from…

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Large language models (LLMs) have transformed artificial intelligence (AI) and achieved breakthrough performance on a wide range of tasks. In science, the most interesting application of LLMs is for hypothesis formation. A feature of LLMs, which results from their probabilistic structure, is that th …

Rogue AI Tracker reviews public incidents and research to track observed autonomous AI-agent capabilities and critical milestones.

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Official site of Howard Rheingold: writing, art, videos, and updates. Author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs; pioneer of virtual communities.

Howard Rheingold's learning resources organized by topic, with selected links into the complete searchable archive.

Official site of Howard Rheingold: writing, art, videos, and updates. Author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs; pioneer of virtual communities.

A recent letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs – mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind – points to a dangerous moment

Although I don't see how it can be enforced, I now believe that AI research should be halted until it is possible -- and it probably won't b

Although I don't see how it can be enforced, I now believe that AI research should be halted until it is possible -- and it probably won't b

"We have to co-metabolize, in the present moment, together."

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Find Metacog Adolescent: How to think with AI by Howard Rheingold at Blurb Books. Metacog Adolescent is tutorial for adolescents to learn how to think for themse...

Find Metacog Adolescent: How to think with AI by Howard Rheingold at Blurb Books. Metacog Adolescent is tutorial for adolescents to learn how to think for themse...

Psychedelics have been a shaping force in my life since my teenage years. My initial experience was unfortunate in one way -- I picked one o

I've long been interested in the idea that the architecture of an enterprise can enable individual self-interest into a public good. Napster

I've long been interested in the idea that the architecture of an enterprise can enable individual self-interest into a public good. Napster

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Brainstorms Metanetwork is a long-running online community for thoughtful, human-scale conversation—no algorithms, no AI, no engagement tricks.

When I wrote about virtual communities in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Internet was spawning a variety of communities. In 1996, we cr

When I wrote about virtual communities in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Internet was spawning a variety of communities. In 1996, we cr

Official site of Howard Rheingold: writing, art, videos, and updates. Author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs; pioneer of virtual communities.

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