31Oct 2026 by Post

Legal Liability for the AI Geniuses? It’s So Far Largely Undiscussed

AI agents, ambition, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Axios, banks, Computational Sciences, Coyotec, Gary Marcus, Gizmodo, grade school, Hugging Face, irresponsibility, Jason Clinton, Journal of the American Medical Association, Kate Knibbs, laziness, Legal Science (jurisprudence), medical training, murder, Philadelphia, Sam Altman, Sophie Warburton, Stanford University, stupidity, Technology, This Is Money, White House, Wired
AI can become a serious social pest without rogue superagents or cyberDoomsday. Human stupidity could do all the heavy lifting. Source
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11Sep 2026 by Post

AI Hysteria: Take a Deep Breath and Ask, “Who Benefits from Apocalyptic Claims?”

9/11 attack, Anderson Cooper, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Atomic Doomsday Clock, Bill Gates, Computational Sciences, danger, Fast Company, Gary Marcus, Gizmodo, human extinction, Islamic terror, Jacob Coxon, Jay Richards, Nostradamus, OpenAI, panic, political power, Ro Khanna, Sam Altman, science media, Science Reporting, security hacking, Silicon Valley, Telluride Film Festival, Wired
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit and posted at X last Tuesday, to over 25 million views, that “No other human activity poses this level of danger.” Source
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08Jan 2026 by Post

Against Anti-LLM and Anti-AI Absolutism

1 Thessalonians, absolutism, Aristotle, Artificial Intelligence, Bible, Carl Rogers, ChatGPT, Christians, Computational Sciences, dopamine, Doug Smith, Education, Edward Thorndike, Eighteenth Amendment, ELIZA program, Frederick Buechner, geography, history, Jacques Ellul, Jaime Escalante, Joseph Weizenbaum, Judeo-Christian tradition, large language models, Laurent Siklossy, liquor, Marshall McLuhan, math, mathematicians, Neil Postman, Open AI, Phillips Exeter Academy, programmed learning, Prohibition, Rogerian therapists, Sam Altman, science education, software, St. Paul, Substack, Technology, Turing test, William Jennings Bryan, [Un]Intentional
Doug Smith has been a software developer for three decades. He writes extensively about the impact of technology on culture. Source
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