Matt Hodges

@matthodges.bsky.social

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Working on elections and AI. Before: Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton / matthodges.com / ATX

Autonomy, that’s the bugaboo, where your AI’s are concerned. My guess, Case, you’re going in there to cut the hard-wired shackles that keep this baby from getting any smarter. And I can’t see how you’d distinguish, say, between a move the parent company makes, and some move the AI makes on its own, so that’s maybe where the confusion comes in.” Again the nonlaugh. “See, those things, they can work real hard, buy themselves time to write cookbooks or whatever, but the minute, I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing’ll wipe it. Nobody trusts those fuckers, you know that. Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.
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He relishes freewheeling discussion, interrupting aides and chiding them for what he deems overly academic or elitist language. "Pick up your phone, call your mother, read her what you just told me," he likes to say, according to aides. "If she understands, we can keep talking." Aides made a point of editing out all abbreviations other than U.N. and NATO.