On AI maximalism

Well, the UK – like the US – is now fully AI-pilled, with our leaders hailing AI as our economic saviour and a national security sine qua non. Most of this is posturing, not considered policy, so I felt it warrants some equally rushed, speculative reactions. AI is the weirdest technology of my lifetime. It does mysterious things unfathomably, and whatever we expect of AI it will prove us wrong.…