Disclosure, I do work for Josh, and I can tell you that he's thought quite deeply about the negative implications of the agents that are coming. Among enumerating the ways in which AI agents will transform knowledge work, this points out the ways which we might come to regret.
> Even if this plays out over 20 or 30 years instead of 10 years, what kind of world are we leaving for our descendants?
> What should we be doing today to prepare for (or prevent) this future?
No, "motivation" is what puts one into motion, hence the name. AIs have constraints and even agendas, which can be triggered by a prompt. But it's not action, it's reaction.
DeepSeek may produce a perfectly good web site explaining why Taiwanese independence is not a thing, and how Taiwan wants back to the mainland. But it's won't produce such a web site by its own motivation, only in response to an external stimulus.
nvader|1 month ago
> Even if this plays out over 20 or 30 years instead of 10 years, what kind of world are we leaving for our descendants?
> What should we be doing today to prepare for (or prevent) this future?
crooked-v|1 month ago
nine_k|1 month ago
DeepSeek may produce a perfectly good web site explaining why Taiwanese independence is not a thing, and how Taiwan wants back to the mainland. But it's won't produce such a web site by its own motivation, only in response to an external stimulus.
ronsor|1 month ago