The Dark Side of Chasing AGI

Welcome back to Invisible Machines. I’m Josh Tyson, a contributing editor here at UX Magazine, and I am joined by resident visionary, Robb Wilson, CEO and Co-founder of OneReach.ai. 

• Robb and I co-authored the bestselling book Age of Invisible Machines, and this podcast is where we continue our explorations of agentic AI.
• Today we’re excited to welcome Karen Hao, renowned tech journalist and author of the instant New York Times bestseller Empire of AI.
• In her book, Karen distills more than a decade’s worth of in-depth reporting into a detailed and highly readable account of OpenAI’s rise to power and why leadership at the company abandoned the promise to keep their research open.
• We also talk about why their target of reaching AGI, first is being undercut by a clear definition of what artificial general intelligence even is.
• This is another conversation where anthropomorphization comes into play, and why making these tools behave more like humans might actually make them less effective (and more dangerous).
• Robb and I were also intrigued by Karen’s reporting on a small nonprofit in New Zealand that used AI to preserve the Māori language. Their scaled back approach to establishing a clear goal and curating data in a responsible manner shows how more focused approaches to integrating AI into business operations might win out over the blunt force of large language models.

Now, get ready for a fascinating discussion with a real one, Karen Hao.

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