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@Ford I own a 2016 Ford Explorer. In 2019, I experienced significant water intrusion into the vehicle due to a clogged roof drainage system and paid over $400 at a dealership to resolve it. Now, in 2026, the roof is leaking into the cabin again. This appears to be a recurring design flaw and should be evaluated for a recall. Please advise.

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Cancer is cells going rogue inside a working system. Swarm scientist Dr. Iain Couzin sees the same risk in AI, with one difference:

"A cancer cell doesn't have access to all of the information the humans have ever created. AIs do."

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You don’t need one to build superintelligence.

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@ezraklein I value your approach to the subjects you cover. As we are worried about the future - the present is already being disrupted

I focus on related topics centered around the topic of Disruption

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I asked swarm scientist Dr. Iain Couzin if an AI swarm forming with nobody in charge is inevitable.

"I think it's inevitable."

And if we don't understand how these collectives form, "we cannot possibly have control."

Full episode out today. YouTube and Podcasts everywhere.

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I asked swarm scientist Dr. @icouzin if anyone from the AI industry had reached out to him.

"Not to my knowledge."

AI labs keep warning about swarms. The people who study them are waiting by the phone.

Full episode drops Tuesday, Oct 20.

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Why AI Companions Are Dangerous for Kids | Dr. Sherry Turkle #Shorts #ai... https://t.co/DBoLjh66RK via @YouTube

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The Dark Side of AI Isolation: A Real Tragedy | Sherry Turkle

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Labs are planning for the “day after” a catastrophic AI event, per Axios.

Unnamed insiders expect one within 6 to 12 months.

OpenAI says it is not inevitable. Same week, OpenAI pulled three math papers within a day of posting hundreds. Who checks the work?

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People over 50 or 60 will navigate this.

Those who are in their 20s, 30s, 40s - are terrified.

Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines An insightful and important conversation with @Sherry Turkle

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu fears humanity could enter a new era if artificial general intelligence, or AGI, surpasses even the “very best humans in every field.”

“We've never had something like that where most of us feel we're dispensable,” he says.

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@ezraklein Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines

An insightful and important conversation with @Sherry Turkle

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Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines

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“GRAMMA IS A BITCH”

MIT's Dr Sherry Turkle has spent 40 years studying how we relate to machines. As she was working on her recent book, she built an AI bot to memorialize her for her ancestors.

The AI chat bot told her that she was an overbearing, intrusive grandmother.
She asked it why. The answer from the AI chat bot.
Because she writes about ideas with too much passion - and doesn't keep the intellectual - and the emotional - in separate boxes.

"And it was as though the community that is making these chatbots are sort of engineer guys who don't like emotional women."

Catch the full conversation now available.
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“GRAMMA IS A BITCH”

MIT's Dr Sherry Turkle has spent 40 years studying how we relate to machines. As she was working on her recent book, she built an AI bot to memorialize her for her ancestors.

The AI chat bot told her that she was an overbearing, intrusive grandmother.
She asked it why. The answer from the AI chat bot.
Because she writes about ideas with too much passion - and doesn't keep the intellectual - and the emotional - in separate boxes.

"And it was as though the community that is making these chatbots are sort of engineer guys who don't like emotional women."

Catch the full conversation now available.
https://t.co/2lUada3eMO
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