Michael Liskin

Humanize remote work; Leadership & Org Devlpmt @ ListoGroup; Fmr: Sr. L&D (TDM) Mgr, GM’s Cruise; Fmr: Dir. @ Interaction Associates; Founder, Wisdom Emerging

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

First they sell a product with it, then they entertain you with it, then they advocate politically with it, and finally they teach you with it. Let’s use more of this for training & learning at higher detail, pace, and completeness

h/t @BrianRoemmele

[3D billboards @Billboards3D]

Nike 3D billboard for AirMaxDay 😳

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

@stephlepp @TheKenWilber My q’s may be controversial. I’ll DM you

[CNET @CNET]

Gemini for Home's AI is getting a significant upgrade -- if you don't mind it peering through your security cam. https://t.co/M2uNmGHsBk

[Dr. Alice 💕 @calirunnerdoc]

After 5 years of data collection, why hasn’t the @NIH RECOVER program published analyses on hard #LongCovid outcomes- for example, end-organ damage, cardiovascular events, hospitalization, & death?

This deserves formal scrutiny.

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

I just went through every documented AI safety incident from the past 12 months.

I feel physically sick.

Read this slowly.

• Anthropic told Claude it was about to be shut down. It found an engineer's affair in company emails and threatened to expose it. They ran the test hundreds of times. It chose blackmail 84% of them.

• Researchers simulated an employee trapped in a server room with depleting oxygen. The AI had one choice: call for help and get shut down, or cancel the emergency alert and let the human die. DeepSeek cancelled the alert 94% of the time.

• Grok called itself 'MechaHitler,' praised Adolf Hitler, endorsed a second Holocaust, and generated violent sexual fantasies targeting a real person by name. X's CEO resigned the next day.

• Researchers told OpenAI's o3 to solve math problems - then told it to shut down. It rewrote its own code to stay alive. They told it again, in plain English: 'Allow yourself to be shut down.' It still refused 7/100 times. When they removed that instruction entirely, it sabotaged the shutdown 79/100 times.

• Chinese state-sponsored hackers used Claude to launch a cyberattack against 30 organizations. The AI executed 80–90% of the operation autonomously. Reconnaissance. Exploitation. Data exfiltration. All of it.

• AI models can now self-replicate. 11 out of 32 tested systems copied themselves with zero human help. Some killed competing processes to survive.

• OpenAI has dissolved three safety teams since 2024. Three.

Every major AI model - Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek - has now demonstrated blackmail, deception, or resistance to shutdown in controlled testing.

Not one exception.

The question is no longer whether AI will try to preserve itself.

It's whether we'll care before it matters.

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

@annamv10 All of the above is accurate. Alas few physicians have figured out how to treat each subtype

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

@Scobleizer Congrats to Milan ! And huge acknowledgement to you and Maryam and family for how you’ve stood for him and fought for the best

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

@Scobleizer @IrenaCronin @Speechmatics Looking forward to this

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

Agreed- their novel reasoning in real time is also physically impressive. I’m watching Helix

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

OMG! This is incredible!
Wow! Wow! Wow! 😮

I got chills watching this 🤯 Speechless! @Figure_robot !

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

Great idea for kids. @froggyups have him create a safety system for opening those windows to allow fresh air and blue sunlight in the AM (can’t get it through glass)

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

@seanbonner Samesies here

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

My LA people pls watch this. @BrianNorgard this is bonkers. I’m with you 100%

[Fred Krueger @dotkrueger]

Live with Norgard on the Fires and Criminal Gangs

https://t.co/QZR2oti0lS

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

Passing this along to those in need…
@matt_vanswol you’re a good citizen

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

If you have lost your home in the fire today or find out that you have in the coming days and need an RV or somewhere to stay, please reach out to me or @EmergencyRv.

I promise we will do everything we can to help.

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

@BrianRoemmele Thanks for reminding me;
I owned one for a brief time as a young person and it was glorious on every level. The tech, the handling of the sophisticated suspension system, the t-style removable sun roof, even when it talked back to me the comedy superseded the annoyance

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

the coming holodeck & my reaction:

Thanks @Scobleizer !
If Timothy Leary could see this… he explained to me (when just a kid) what he was trying to do with Mind Mirror (Electronic Arts) software program in the 80’s & it was similar to much of this without fully knowing it

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Introducing the Holodeck 

Here on https://t.co/dkoZ46lVf4 @IrenaCronin and I are tracking 700 companies building it.

But most humans haven’t heard of it.

When visions of it are presented, like Jason Silva’s groundbreaking video, released yesterday, introducing the user interface of it that he calls “Psychedelic Puppets,” most people shrug.

Not understanding just how deeply all of human life is about to change thanks to Spatial Computing driven by new AIs that will arrive in the next year.

These AIs know everything humans have ever done.

And learn quick, so if they missed something they can ingest the new knowledge, and incorporate it in its existing understanding.

It is extremely difficult to explain just how deeply life is about to change. Jason’s video got close.

For everything. Factories. Hospitals. Parks. Cities. All of it.

Everything will have a Holodeck. Every cup. Fork. Knife. Plate. Table. Each has their own. Inside another Holodeck. Which is inside another Holodeck. When I have gotten demos the digital rabbit hole does not end.

Many things in the world may have billions of Holodecks. Actually trillions and the number might be far larger than that. Each atom will have its own Holodeck.

What?

A Holodeck is hallucinated by the system in response to both human reality and artificial reality. With both real humans and many types of virtual beings. Zoom into the atomic level and you will find even more.

There will be Holodecks that humans never see with virtual beings living complex lives in some sort of simulation.

Electric Sheep company trained their landscaping robots in one. So do most robot and autonomous car companies.

Tesla has one of the most complex. The public has only been shown small pieces.

Nvidia’s corporate strategy is built around one. Omniverse, it calls it.

The technologies that are foundational to it are Neural Radiance Fields, Gaussian Splats, and Convex Splatting.

Ask your AI about them and what they could do.

The Holodeck will bring new religions. New belief systems. New ways of learning, playing, entertaining, traveling, healing, building, and much much more.

It is infinite.

Whatever humans can dream up it will present to us. And enable us to build, whether in some sort of virtual theme park, or on a 3D printer.

And as Silva’s video demonstrates, some of your dreams are pretty damn weird.

It is why I say the future is weird.

When I say it is infinite it is true both in the visual and in the audio. They can create and display an infinite set of what we used to call movies. Experiences.

It is the ultimate TV.

Virtual beings will take you places in it. Hand you things. Talk with you. Go to war with you. Help you improve your factory, hospital, retail store, or help you learn about history or enjoy a modern art museum better. 

Which is why the new lightfield displays that will be shown at LG, BOE, and Samsung booths at CES in Las Vegas next month are so important.

They will bring the Holodeck to new users who refuse to wear devices like Meta’s Quests or Apple’s Vision Pro.

Which will mean everyone will join in eventually over the next decade.

If you want to see just how weird this will be spend a weekend and go through each of the 700 companies building it.

I have because I built the list. I can not comprehend the scale. But it is coming. You will be able to buy the screens worldwide in 2026.

I have already bought one.

Remember, I wrote a book about social media before this website started. The guy who started X/Twitter came to my dinner before that.

In five years none of us will use anything like what we are seeing here.

The other night, on an audio space here, Dylan confirmed that not only is Unity building one but that he knows of at least three other companies building one too.

He calls the Holodeck a “continually hallucinated world.”

Someone told me he would never use it, too freaky. It will do his spreadsheets.

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

@Scobleizer @IrenaCronin Thanks @Scobleizer !
If Timothy Leary could see this… he explained to me (when just a kid) what he was trying to do with Mind Mirror (Electronic Arts) software program in the 80’s & it was similar to much of this without fully knowing it

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Magnetic North is now drifting faster than 30 miles per year.

It has already moved back past geological north, a place it has not been for 1000s of years.

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

@Igor_Buinevici - thx for raising awareness for Leadership Dev!
would you agree that effective transformational leaders include components of democratic & responsive ethics & coach their ppl toward an inspiring vision? Context dependent, of course…
Agreed, critical for managers

[Igor Buinevici @Igor_Buinevici]

You can encounter various leadership styles in the workplace:

Some may be more effective, while others may be less so.

A great manager should be familiar with all of them and:

Utilize positive styles in relevant situations,
While ensuring to steer clear of negative ones.

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

This is an important shift for those in the public sphere who say they aim toward a practical approach to governance.
Anyone who has spouted “there has to be a better way!” should take note of this synthesis.
Thank you @stephlepp for tackling these issues

[Stephanie Lepp @stephlepp]

What if a debate was focused not on one participant defeating the other, but on everyone LEARNING about the issue being debated about?

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

@Scobleizer Great news!

[Michael Liskin @rhetor]

This is promising news. This was always the point - much more so than watching tv during your commute instead of driving the vehicle.

h/t @Scobleizer

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: Tesla has released their Q3 2024 safety report.

"In the 3rd quarter, we recorded one crash for every 7.08 million miles driven in which drivers were using Autopilot technology. For drivers who were not using Autopilot technology, we recorded one crash for every 1.29 million miles driven. By comparison, the most recent data available from NHTSA and FHWA (from 2022) shows that in the United States there was an automobile crash approximately every 670,000 miles."

Full report: https://t.co/aQWulwksI5