AI Happens

These posts are Version 2 of this material. Please email me with feedback. Sex and Drugs and Guns and Code Restart A Little Psychology How We Got Here More Psychology When the Model is the Harm Privacy, Power, and the Self Who Gets What and Why More Analogies What We Owe the Future Regulation Works How Change Happens AI Happens Bibliography · Glossary · A Note on LLMS A lot of people are afraid that AI is going to take their jobs. That fear is legitimate: it’s what happened in agriculture when mechanization arrived in the nineteenth century, to craft manufacturing when factory automation took over, and to office work when computers eliminated most routine clerical jobs. New work appeared, but it wasn’t the same work or in the same places, and it wasn’t for everyone who needed it. I think understanding that history is essential to understanding what’s happening with AI. What AI Is, and What Automation Does Large language models are trained on enormous quantities of text and code,…