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Who decides what AI says? Musk, Andreessen and Zuckerberg on AI censorship
All three link AI to earlier fights over content moderation and free speech, and they worry that models will carry the biases of whoever tunes them. As AI becomes the main way people find information, control over what models say becomes a question of power.
Why AI's builders want medicine first: restoring lost function before augmentation
Neuralink, retinal prosthetics and deep brain stimulation researchers all start with patients who have lost something, such as movement, sight or impulse control, and only then talk about enhancement. This medical-first path shows how brain-machine interfaces will likely reach the public: through clinical need, not consumer upgrades.
Will scaling LLMs reach AGI? LeCun versus Amodei and Altman
Yann LeCun argues large language models have basic limits and need new architectures. Amodei and Altman bet that more scale and compute will keep delivering big capability jumps. Which side is right shapes AGI timelines, investment, and how seriously to take near-term risk warnings.