Ted Chiang

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2025-10-23 OGM Call: Has Progress Stopped? (xlnt)
2026-01 HF2 on AI
As the science-fiction author Ted Chiang has said, fears about the existential risks of A.I. are really fears about the threat of uncontrolled capitalism, and dystopias like the paper clip maximizer are just caricatures of every start-up’s business plan.
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
Exhalation: Stories (2019)
I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism.
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
Story of Your Life (1998 short story)
Ted Chiang on Free Will
The Great Silence
The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About (xlnt)
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
Tower of Babylon (1990 novelette)
Understand (1991 story)
Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?