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What’s the existential risk of AI? The question seems to spark a lot of conversations these day, usually on the presumption that that there is a great risk.
But Berkeley-based AI researcher Jeff Hawkins doesn’t see existential risk ahead. He recently sat for a rousing conversation with the ever-interesting Sam Harris on his Making Sense podcast....

Malcolm Gladwell took a ride in a Waymo — controlled by a perfect, calm algorithmic driver. As Gladwell put it, Waymo’s driving was executed “with the unruffled rationality of an engineering major at Stanford university.”
It was a kind of sneak preview of the ideal, intelligent city. Ah, but this goes further....

How do you explain the “smart cities” idea? How do you do it on a first date, as I had to do not long ago?
She asked, “So, what do you write about?” That I wrote about “smart cities” was already on the record. First, you sip your beer. Then you set out to jump over the gimmicky “smart” and into the noble “cities.”...

Take a look at the San Ramon City Council’s official portrait and see what you notice. What’s hard to miss is four white men of about Boomer age standing shoulder to shoulder — and in line with them one young woman rising just above their belly height...