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Not so competent AI overlords

People are worried that our soon-to-be AI overlords will take over our lives and run human civilization into the ground with their superior intelligence. Those people probably haven't had the frustratingly frequent experience of seeing these agents utterly fail to successfully complete tasks we ask and empower them to do. Repeatedly.

Paul Jacobson
Aug 12, 20261 min read

eople are worried that our soon-to-be AI overlords will take over our lives and run human civilization into the ground with their superior intelligence.

Those people probably haven’t had the frustratingly frequent experience of seeing these agents utterly fail to successfully complete tasks we ask and empower them to do. Repeatedly.

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