Tag: AI ethics

Ask A Genius 1566: AI, Suicide, and the Hive Mind, or Risk, Gender, and Media Literacy

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In this dialogue, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner examine lawsuits against OpenAI and Character.AI alleging chatbot-induced suicides due to failed safety mechanisms. Rosner connects these real-world ethical crises to media literacy and the speculative series Pluribus, created by Vince Gilligan and starring Rhea Seehorn, where humanity merges into a Hive Mind. The conversation explores gendered suicide patterns, the psychology of AI influence, and existential questions raised by technological and fictional unification. Their exchange moves between legal realism, social commentary, and science fiction’s reflection of human frailty.

Ask A Genius 1536: AI Ethics, Grigori Perelman, and Storytelling

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In this dialogue, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner explore a wide range of topics, from Robin Williams’s daughter objecting to AI-generated clips of her late father, to Rosner’s discomfort at being compared to mathematician Grigori Perelman. The conversation touches on ethics, memory, self-presentation, and cultural sensitivity in an age of artificial media. Rosner expands into personal reflections, weaving in anecdotes about his family life in Albuquerque and speculative narratives about Los Angeles in the 1970s. The exchange highlights the tensions between authenticity and fabrication, personal identity and public image, while underscoring the importance of storytelling in shaping perception.

Ask A Genius 1510: Wendy’s Mind Upload, Corporate Experiments, and Xenomorph Canon

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Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner unpack new beats in Alien Earth: Boy Kavalier pressures Wendy—a hybrid “Lost Boy” whose mind was data-transferred—leveraging her brother Joe Hermit while she perceives Xenomorph signals. Prodigy’s vivisection of a facehugger and larval implant in Joe’s removed lung underlines corporate nihilism, as the series aims for canon two years pre-Alien. They note continuity bumps and correct lore: the Eye Midge is not from Xenomorph Prime. Rosner riffs on librarians’ ruthlessness to argue most memories are filler, warning of AI triage of human consciousness, then sketches a “Great Peace”: abundance-first energy expansion to forestall conflict.