How AI Will Rewire Us

An Atlantic cover piece.

“In 1985, some four decades after Isaac Asimov introduced his laws of robotics, he added another to his list: A robot should never do anything that could harm humanity. But he struggled with how to assess such harm. “A human being is a concrete object,” he later wrote. “Injury to a person can be estimated and judged. Humanity is an abstraction.”

“Berggruen Institute Casts L.A. as the Lab to Reconceive Humanity”

OBVIOUSLY I am getting hooked up with these folks…

“Entertainment, art, science, education — all are embodied by the Berggruen Institute, a DTLA-based, big-picture think tank working to get our society out ahead of the major issues that will affect humanity in the coming centuries.”