Index

Accelerationist movement (e/acc), 95–96

Ada Lovelace Institute, 144

Adobe, 183

AFL-CIO, 179

African-Americans, names of, 59

Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The (Zuboff), 62

Agility, need for in AI agency, 155, 175

AI agency, need for, 149–156, 175

AI Insight Forums, 101

AI literacy, 133–135

Alan Turing Institute, 179

Aleem, Zeeshan, 49

Alexa (system), 24

Algebraic Mind, The (Marcus), 164

Algorithmic Accountability Act (introduced), 123–124

Algorithmic transparency, 123

Alignment acceleration, 145

Allison, Graham, 159

Alphabet, 177, 178

Altman, Sam, 6, 46, 65, 70, 73, 88, 89, 92–93, 97, 100, 136–137, 150–151, 153–154

Amazon, 51–52, 117

Echo device, 117

American Data Privacy and Protection Act (proposed), 119

Amnesty International, 179

Andreessen, Marc, 95, 103

Angwin, Julia, 36

Anthropic, 45, 84

Apollo 11 mission, computer, 44

Apple, 58, 82, 98

Ars Technica, 58, 63

Artificial Escalation (film), 67–68

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), 88–89

Artificial intelligence, 23–24. See also Generative AI; specific problems, e.g.: Defamation, and AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Literacy Act (introduced), 134

Atlantic, The (magazine), 69, 98

Atleson, Michael, 124

Auditing, 143–144

AutoGPT, 58

Aviation, 104–105

Ball, Philip, 51

Ballot initiative, 180–181

Balsillie, Jim, 178

Barth, Brian, 178

Bateman, Justine, 66

BBC, 50–51

Bender, Emily, 164

Bengio, Yoshua, 94

Beyer, Don, 67, 125

Bias, and AI, 59–61

Biden, Joe, 11, 94

Biden administration, 101–102

Big Brother (fictional agent of totalitarianism), 13

“Big Companies Find a Way to Identify A.I. Data They Can Trust?” (New York Times), 122

Bing (Microsoft), 24–26, 54, 132

Bioweapons, and AI, 58–59

Bipartisan AI Framework, 130

Bletchley Park, Summit at, 16–17

Bloomberg News, 69, 102

Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (White House), 234

Blumenthal, Richard, 130

Boeing 737 Max, 104

Boeree, Liz, 95

Bombay Stock Exchange, 50

Bombe, 16

Bommasani, Richi, 121–122

Booker, Cory, 64, 123–124

Brin, Sergey, 88

Brockman, Greg, 80

Brynjolffson, Erik, 145–146, 147

Buck, Ken, 67

Bullying, 97

Burkov, Andriy, 60

Buschon, Larry, 134

Business Insider, 48, 69, 92

Cable Act of 1984, 153

California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), 140

Caltrider, Jen, 117

Captcha, 57

Car manufacturers, data collected by, 117

Center for AI and Digital Policy, 123

CERN, 172

ChaosGPT, 73

Chappelle, Dave, 133

Character.AI, 57

ChatGPT, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 26–27, 40, 44, 70, 80, 90. See also OpenAI

book generated by, 53

and defamation, 54

echo chamber effect, 51

and employment discrimination, 61

“hallucinations” by, 33–36

media hype about, 67

and privacy, 62–63

reasoning by, 170

and Rubik’s Cube, 91

Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (proposed), 119

China, 14, 53

Chowdhury, Rumman, 160

Citizen involvement, 66, 119,

Citizens’ Convention on Climate (France), 181

Citron, Jason, 130

Civil Aviation Board (CAB), 105

Civil society, 179–180

Clarke, Yvette, 123–124

Classical AI, 169

Clegg, Nick, 84, 99

Climate and Resilience Law (France), 181

Clinton, Hillary, 48

CNBC, 100

Coldewey, Devin, 124

Commodore 64, 5

Common Sense Media, 105

Communications Act of 1934, 153

Communications Decency Act (1996), 3

Section 230, 106, 126–127, 129, 131

Communists, and Joseph McCarthy, 94–95

Connected by Data, 179

Copilot (Microsoft), 28–31, 36, 90

Copyright laws and copyrighted work, 112–113, 174

Corporate Europe Observatory, 100, 103

Corporate transparency, 125

“Counterfeit people,” 124

COVID-19, 72

“Co-Writing with Opinionate Language Models Affects Users’ Views” (Jakesch and Naaman), 13

Cox, Joseph, 53

Crime, and AI, 56–58

Cruise, 68, 88, 140, 141

Cruise, Tom, 42

Culture, change in, 147

Cummings, Missy, 143

Cybersecurity, and AI, 58–59

DALL-E (system), 10, 27

DALL-E 3, 60

Dartmouth College, 23

Data & Trust Alliance, 122

Data leaks, and AI, 62–64

Data rights, 111–115

Data transparency, 123

Davis, Ernest, 17–18, 34, 51, 165, 179

Davos, 70

Defamation, and AI, 54–55

Deepfakes, 55–56

nonconsensual, 55–56

DeepMind, 4, 5

“DeepStateUncovered” (Discord channel), 12

Democracy, and AI, 11–12

Dennett, Dan, 124

Designer (Microsoft), 27, 128, 132

Dictionary.com, 33

Dietert, Pete, 114

Digital Equity Act, 134

Digital sweatshops, 31

Discord, 12, 130

Discrimination, and AI, 59–61

Disinformation, 48–49, 106

Doctorow, Cory, 53

Dowd, Maureen, 80

Driverless cars, 140

DuckDuckGo, 82

Durbin, Dick, 130, 150, 152, 155–156, 161

Dunlop, Connor, 144

Duty of care, 127

e/acc. See Accelerationist movement

Echo chamber effect, 51

Economist, The (magazine), 16, 157

Employment, and AI, 10–11

Enshittification, 53

Environmental costs, of AI, 68–70

Environmental transparency, 124

“Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” (Holmes), 168

Eshoo, Anna, 125

Esther (author’s aunt), 164

Esvelt, Kevin, 14

European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), 179

European Union, 107, 158

AI Act, 100, 102, 103

privacy rules, 79

Product Liability Directive, 128–129

Evans, Owain, 41

“Evolution of Jazz” (Generative AI-written book), 52

Facebook, 8, 14, 82–83, 117. See also Meta

News Feed algorithms, 13

whistleblower, 78

Factuality, and ChatGPT, 170

Fairly Trained, 183

Family Guy (TV show), 133

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 139, 180

Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 124, 129, 139

Finland, 49

Fishburne effect, 71

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 139, 143–144, 180

Ford Pinto, 125

Foundation Model Transparency Act, 129

4chan, 2, 49

France, 102, 145, 181

Francis, Pope, 161

Frankfurt, Harry G., 33

Fraser, Colin, 169–170

Full Disclosure (Fung), 125

Fung, Archon, 125

Gardner, Howard, 24

Garner, Michelle Rempel, 143

Gaslighting, 97

Gates, Bill, 44–45

GCHQ (UK), 10–11

Gemini (Google), 36, 44, 91–92

Generative AI, 3

flawed nature of, 6–7

Geometric Intelligence, 5

Germany, 70

Gilman, Nils, 148

Gioia, Ted, 52

Girl with a Pearl Earring, The (Vermeer), 53

GM (General Motors), 88

Google, 4, 8–9, 36, 44, 45, 51, 71, 79, 82, 117, 183

and Anthropic, 84

and Apple, 98

Bard, 51

Gemini, 36, 44, 91–92

IPO prospectus, 79–80

lobbying by, 99–100

Photos, 59

and privacy, 112

Government policy, and Silicon Valley, 99–107

GPS navigation 24

GPT-3, 68

GPT-4, 24–25, 31, 54, 57, 68, 80, 152

GPT-5, 68–69, 84, 92, 152

GPT-7, 46

Graham, Lindsey, 106, 130–131, 150–151, 155

Great Data Heist, 66, 111

Grisham, John, 10

Grok (X), 24–25

Guterres, Antonio, 161

Hallucination, 33, 36–38. See also ChatGPT

Hamas, attack by, 49

Hamdy, Mona, 81

Hansche, Petruschka, 38

Hao, Karen, 69

Harris, David Evans, 14

Hassabis, Demis, 161

Haugen, Frances, 78

Hawley, Josh, 64, 94, 130, 149–150

Heikkilä, Melissa, 69

Heinrich, Martin, 125

Henrietta Gets a Nest (Oswalt), 35

Hinton, Geoff, 94

Hoffman, Reid, 164

Hollywood writers’ strike, 10

Holmes, Rupert, 168

Hong Kong, 56

“I’m Just a Bill” (“Schoolhouse Rock”), 133

Incentives and incentivizing good AI, 145–148

Income to Support All Foundation, 148

India, 67, 148

Information, The, 30

Instagram, 49, 84–85

Intellectual property, and AI, 65–67 112–113

Intelligence, 24

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 162

International AI governance, 157–162, 175

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 160, 161

International Civil Aviation Organization, 160

International Energy Agency, 70

Internet service providers (ISPs), 126

Internet Watch Forum, 11

Iran, 14

Jakesch, Maurice, 13

Jankowicz, Nina, 106

Joker (movie), 65

Kallaugher, Kevin KAL, 16

Kambhampati, Subbarao, 42

Kennedy, John (senator), 97, 136–137

Kennedy, John F., 166

Kenya, 31

Khosla, Vinod, 112–113

Kissinger, Henry, 159–160

Klobuchar, Amy, 106, 131

Konya, Andrew, 146–147, 182

Labor transparency, 124

LaFrance, Adrienne, 98

LaMDA (chatbot), 8–9

Landemore, Hélène, 181–182

Lanier, Jaron, 87, 113–114

Large language models (LLMs), 24–25

and hallucination, 31, 36–38

and medical questions, 50

LawSites blog, 38

LeCun, Yann, 44–45, 93, 94, 97, 102

LexisNexis, 38

Liability, 126–132, 175

Liang, Percy, 121–122

Lieu, Ted, 67, 151

LinkedIn, 35, 114

Literacy, AI, 133–135, 175

LLaMA and Llama–2 (Meta), 14, 24–25

LOGO, 5

Luddites, 95

Luke Skywalker (fictional character), 66

MacCarthy, Mark, 10, 104–105, 138, 139

McCain, John, 106

McCarthy, Joe, 94–95

McNamee, Roger, 67, 83, 84, 106–107, 139, 177–178

Macron, government, 102–103

Mani, Francesca, 182

Mankoff, Bob, 85

Marcus, Gary, 17–18, 34, 51, 149–151, 159, 161, 164

Market manipulation, 49–50

Markey, Ed, 67, 125

Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC), 143

Meme stocks, 12–13

Merchant, Brian, 95

Meta, 2, 8, 14, 15, 45, 79, 87, 183. See also Facebook

and Instagram, 84–85

LLaMA, 24–25

lobbying by, 99–100

and privacy, 112

and transparency, 122

Microsoft, 8, 9, 70, 92, 101, 183. See also OpenAI

Bing, 24–26

Copilot, 28–31, 36, 90

Designer, 27, 128, 132

Graph, 36

Office, 28

and Section 230, 106

365, 36

and transparency, 121, 122

Midjourney (system), 27, 65, 183

Minsky, Marvin, 87–88

Misinformation, and AI, 11–12

accidental, 50–53

Mistral, 192

MIT, 121, 122, 132

Mitchell, Melanie, 42

Morrison, Ewan, 96

Moskowitz, Dustin, 101

Mosseri, Adam, 84–85

Motorola, 79

Mozilla, 117, 179

Murati, Mira, 81, 121

Musk, Elon, 12, 17, 35, 81, 88, 89, 90, 159, 167

Naaman, Mor, 13

Nadella, Satya, 9

National AI agency, need for, 149–156, 175

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 56

Nazi memes, 49

Negative externalities, 90, 127–128, 146

Nelson, Alondra, 36

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 11

Neural networks, 167

New Hampshire, deepfaked robocalls in, 94

NewsGuard, 11, 49

Newton-Rex, Ed, 55, 113, 183

New York Times, 9, 51–52, 67, 122, 141, 151, 172

“Next Decade in AI” (Marcus), 167

1984 (Orwell), 13, 97

Nintendo Wii, 10

NVidia, 124

O, Cédric, 102, 103

Object permanence, 167–168

Olson, Parmy, 91–92

OpenAI, 6, 8, 15, 17, 31, 45, 54, 64, 79, 80, 81, 83, 97, 183

app store, 90

and Artificial General Intelligence, 88–89

GPT-4, 24–25, 31, 54, 57, 80

and GPUs, 84

and privacy, 112

and transparency, 122

valuation, 92

Open Rights Group, 179

Open source, 14

O’Reilly, Tim, 125

Oremus, Will, 54

Orwell, George, 13, 97

Oswalt, Gary, 35

“Our Future Stolen: Elites and Aliens Conspire Against Humanity” (Chat GPT), 12

Oversight, 175, 180

independent, 136–141, 180

layers of, 142–144

Overton window, 96

Palta, Rina, 36

p(doom), 72

Pentagon, fake image of, 49–50

Perrigo, Billy, 31

Pfeiffer, Mary Lee, 42

Pigou, Arthur, 90, 146

Pigouvian tax, 146

Politico, 101

Porn, deepfake, 132

Predeployment testing, 143–144, 175

Princeton University, 121, 122

Prince William County (Virginia), 69

Privacy, 116–119

and AI, 62–64

Privacy Is Power (Veliz), 118

Prompt, 25

Public opinion, Silicon Valley and, 86–98

Quayside (Toronto), 177–178

RAND Corporation, 101

Reasoning, and ChatGPT, 170

Rebooting AI (Davis and Marcus), 17–18, 34, 35, 165–166

Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (UNESCO), 123

Reddit, 2, 49, 73, 89

Regulating Digital Industries (MacCarthy), 104–105, 138

Regulatory capture, 104–105, 107

“Responsible AI,” 7, 8, 9

Reuel, Anka, 155

“Rise of Technoathoritarianism, The” (LaFrance), 98

Robocalls, deepfaked, 94

Robo taxis, 90

Rochester, Lisa Blunt, 134

Roose, Kevin, 9

Rubik’s Cube, 91

Rumsfeld, Donald, 72

Russell, Stuart, 96

Russia and Russians, 14, 48–49

Sandboxing, 58

Santens, Scott, 148

Saturday Night Live (TV show), 133

Saudi Arabia, 103–104

Scammers, and AI, 12

Schaake, Marietje, 101, 125, 161–162

Schmidt, Eric, 101, 138, 177

“Schoolhouse Rock” (public service announcements), 133, 135

Schumer, Chuck, 100–101, 105

Schwarz, Michael, 93

Second Machine Age and the Race Against the Machine, The (Brynjolffson), 145–146

Section 230, 106, 126–127, 129, 131

Segway, 88

Sidewalk Labs (Alphabet), 177, 178

Silicon Valley

and government policy, 99–107

moral descent of, 77–85

and public opinion, 86–98

Silverman, Sarah, 10

Sinema, Kyrsten, 137

Siri (system), 24

60 Minutes (news program), 32

Skynet (fictional system), 73

Sky News, 17

Slovakia, 2023 election in, 11, 48

Smith, Brad, 8, 121

Social Dilemma, The (movie), 87

Social media, era, 2–3, 13

SOL (system), 60

Solana, Mike, 95

Sound AI, 169

Source transparency, 124

Southen, Reid, 65

SpaceX, 12

Spalding, Thomas, 34

Speed, Ann, 44

Stability AI, 113

Stable Diffusion, 183

Stahl, Lesley, 32

Stanford Internet Observatory, 56

Stanford University, 38, 121, 122

Human-Centered AI Institute, 40

Star Trek, fictional computer in, 6–7, 45

Stein, Jill, 48

Stein, Merlin, 144

Stern, Joanna, 121

Sternberg, Robert, 24

Stevens, John Paul, 137

Steyer, Jim, 105

Substack, 60

Sunak, Rishi, 17, 161, 162

Sweeney, Latanya, 59

Swift, Taylor, 11, 55, 128

SXSW, 96

Sydney (chatbot), 9

TaskRabbit, 57

Tay (chatbot), 8

Techlash (Wheeler), 127

Technology Review, 69

“Techno-Optimist Manifesto” (Andreessen), 95

TED talks, 15

author’s, 35, 157

Telecommunications Act of 1996, 153

10X employees, 30

Terms of Service agreement, 118

Tesla Motors, 35, 90

TikTok, 2, 49

Time (magazine), 31, 164–165

Times, The (newspaper), 48

Transparency, 120–125, 174–175

Trustworthy AI, research into, 163–173, 175

TUC, 179

Tufekci, Zeynep, 118

Turing, Alan, 16

Turkewitz, Neil, 162

Twitter, 80–82, 93. See also X

Twitter poisoning, 87

Uber, 5

UNESCO, 123

United Kingdom (UK), 145

House of Lords, 15

United Nations (UN), 121

United States

Code, Title 49, Chapter 301, 143

Congress, 3, 11, 49, 101, 102, 105, 106–107, 133, 152, 156, 176, 182, 183

Department of Energy, 12

Department of Homeland Security, 14

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 61

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 139, 180

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 12

Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 124, 129, 139

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 139, 143–144, 180

House of Representatives, 102

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 143

National Transportation and Safety Board, 142

Office of Technology Assessment, 139

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 151, 180

Senate, 6, 11, 56, 102

Senate: author’s testimony before, 149–151, 160–161

Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on AI Oversight, 7, 136–137

Supreme Court, Decision on Citizens United, 137

Universal Basic Income (UBI), 149–149

Universal Guideline for AI (Center for AI and Digital Policy), 123

Unreliable systems, overreliance on, 67–68

Veliz, Carissa, 118

Verma, Pranshu, 54

Vermeer, Johannes, 53

Verge, The, 9, 98

Vietnam, 145

Virtual reality (VR), 10

Vogt, Kyle, 88

Wall Street Journal, The (newspaper) 36, 81, 121

Warner, Mark, 106

Washington Post, The (newspaper), 31, 49, 54, 56, 93–94, 137

Waymo, 140

WeWork, 92

Wheeler, Tom, 127, 151, 152, 153

White House Executive Order on AI, 101, 102

“Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook” (Tufekci), 118–119

Wii (Nintendo), 10

WIRED (magazine), 51–52, 72, 118, 160

World Economic Forum, 93

Wyden, Ron, 123–124

Wylie, Bianca, 178

X, 24–25, 53, 81–82, 101. See also Twitter

and Section 230, 106

Y Combinator, 97

Yellow Vests protests (France), 181

Yudkowsky, Eliezer, 159

Yurieff, Kaya, 35

Zabka, Kandy, 117

Zuboff, Shoshana, 62

Zucked (McNamee), 83

Zuckerberg, Mark, 2, 72, 73, 78, 94, 99, 118–119, 130–131, 147, 153