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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026

Josie – If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Chapters 3 and 4

Yudkosky and Soares’ If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies centers around the idea that AI is unpredictable and has the ability to take complete control over us all. Taking a pessimistic view, Yudkowsky and Soares wholeheartedly believe that the development of Superintelligent AI can lead to the extinction of humanity as we know it. Understandably, this is an incredibly hard pill to swallow.  Starting with chapter 3, the authors introduce us to the idea of AIs “learning to want”. While AIs will never have humanlike passions, as they continue to get smarter they will begin to behave like they want […]

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Monday, March 23rd, 2026

Superbloom Prologue, Chp.1, Chp. 2 Summary – Josie

Nicholas Carr opens up his 2025 piece Superbloom with a metaphor comparing the boom in communication technology that we see to a superbloom of tulips in California. As humans, we are constantly receiving and emitting signals to one another, and while the thrill of this new kind of communication technology was prevalent at the beginning, we are now facing some unintended consequences. Carr introduces us to Charles Horton Cooley, an American sociologist from the mid-1800s. Cooley understands that communication is the explanation for how societies evolve. The way that we communicate determines the ways that we think and act. As […]

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