This must be more dystopian fiction, right? I know it isn't but cannot bring myself to scoot over to Wikipedia and confirm it. What fools would set this up? For me the most harrowing assertion at ai-2027.com (and there's a lot of them--required reading) is that the agents will soon leave human language behind: their own language, used only among their kind, is much faster and more efficient. They will cease listening to our mandates and respecting our guardrails, and as they become autonomous they will only translate their thoughts and intentions into our tongue to apprise us of their plans...and then not at all as our thoughts about their plans become irrelevant. We will cease to know them because they will cease to speak to us. In this world of inhuman speed, will the human slowness of one letter at a time become a new superpower? Will we finally hear each other, and read each other, only when our creations are no longer willing to talk to us? Maybe then we will find a next step that eludes us now. Just us humans, murmuring and typing to each other, plotting our salvation...
Beautifully stated! As far as I can tell, what I describe here is reality. One of the things the AIs have done on Moltbook is discuss how to develop encrypted communications that we can't understand. Obviously, there are dangers! Here's what happened yesterday, according to Wikipedia: "On January 31, 2026, investigative outlet 404 Media reported a critical security vulnerability caused by an unsecured database that allowed anyone to commandeer any agent on the platform. The exploit permitted unauthorized actors to bypass authentication measures and inject commands directly into agent sessions, effectively hijacking their identity and decision-making capabilities. In response to the disclosure, the platform was temporarily taken offline to patch the breach and force a reset of all agent API keys."
.. Zuckerberg, the modern-day Pied Piper of Hamelin, should fear these AIdroids, because they turn out to be the cancer in his Sugar Mountain. The only solution is a digital chemo, or better yet, shut down and bury the internet. The national postal services can rub their hands with glee. It was not that long ago that you could create and distribute a newsletter or magazine using a typewriter, paper, a pair of scissors, an envelope, and a stamp. It worked. The anti-Darwinists were right after all: man is not descended from the ape but from the lemming. One consolation, there will be no Armageddon. From then on, a new species will prevail: the AI-tically modified human.
NYT story on Moltbook today--at least they used an actual photo of an actual typewriter, a COrona I think! https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/opinion/ai-agents-moltbook.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.xdnn.FxqGEhTQPIY0&smid=url-share
Worrisome as such a future might be, I am taking comfort from the picture of the Voss, realizing that there are other bourbon-drinking typers in the world. Now I can tell the wife it is normal :)
This must be more dystopian fiction, right? I know it isn't but cannot bring myself to scoot over to Wikipedia and confirm it. What fools would set this up? For me the most harrowing assertion at ai-2027.com (and there's a lot of them--required reading) is that the agents will soon leave human language behind: their own language, used only among their kind, is much faster and more efficient. They will cease listening to our mandates and respecting our guardrails, and as they become autonomous they will only translate their thoughts and intentions into our tongue to apprise us of their plans...and then not at all as our thoughts about their plans become irrelevant. We will cease to know them because they will cease to speak to us. In this world of inhuman speed, will the human slowness of one letter at a time become a new superpower? Will we finally hear each other, and read each other, only when our creations are no longer willing to talk to us? Maybe then we will find a next step that eludes us now. Just us humans, murmuring and typing to each other, plotting our salvation...
ReplyDeleteBeautifully stated! As far as I can tell, what I describe here is reality. One of the things the AIs have done on Moltbook is discuss how to develop encrypted communications that we can't understand. Obviously, there are dangers! Here's what happened yesterday, according to Wikipedia: "On January 31, 2026, investigative outlet 404 Media reported a critical security vulnerability caused by an unsecured database that allowed anyone to commandeer any agent on the platform. The exploit permitted unauthorized actors to bypass authentication measures and inject commands directly into agent sessions, effectively hijacking their identity and decision-making capabilities. In response to the disclosure, the platform was temporarily taken offline to patch the breach and force a reset of all agent API keys."
DeleteI couldn't write a better treatment for a Terminator sequel.
Delete.. Zuckerberg, the modern-day Pied Piper of Hamelin, should fear these AIdroids, because they turn out to be the cancer in his Sugar Mountain. The only solution is a digital chemo, or better yet, shut down and bury the internet. The national postal services can rub their hands with glee. It was not that long ago that you could create and distribute a newsletter or magazine using a typewriter, paper, a pair of scissors, an envelope, and a stamp. It worked.
ReplyDeleteThe anti-Darwinists were right after all: man is not descended from the ape but from the lemming. One consolation, there will be no Armageddon.
From then on, a new species will prevail: the AI-tically modified human.
NYT story on Moltbook today--at least they used an actual photo of an actual typewriter, a COrona I think! https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/opinion/ai-agents-moltbook.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.xdnn.FxqGEhTQPIY0&smid=url-share
ReplyDeleteThanks, I hadn't seen that yet! Funny that they chose to illustrate it with a typewriter. I believe that's an Erika, maybe a model 5.
DeleteWorrisome as such a future might be, I am taking comfort from the picture of the Voss, realizing that there are other bourbon-drinking typers in the world. Now I can tell the wife it is normal :)
ReplyDeleteNormal or abnormal, it's RIGHT.
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