Category: Artificial Decisions

Artificial Decisions

17 – The Numbers of AI #ArtificialDecisions #MCC

For years, artificial intelligence grew silently. Then, suddenly, it surpassed everything—faster than the internet, more invasive than smartphones.

ChatGPT has eight times more users than two years ago: 800 million per month. It hit one billion daily searches five times faster than Google. We spend three times more time on it. Revenue: $3.7 billion. India is the top country by users, but this is a global game.

Big Tech invested $212 billion in 2024 alone: Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia. That’s a 63% increase in just one year. Nvidia alone grew its revenue 28-fold in a decade, taking everything—chips, data centers, market value.

And the world? It’s not keeping up. 2.5 billion people are still offline. But they’ll come online not through Google, but through AI: real-time translation, satellite connections, voice interfaces. 83% of Chinese citizens view AI positively; in the U.S., only 39%.

Half of the S&P 500 now openly talk about AI. Two years ago, they didn’t mention it at all. AI-related job postings are up 448%, non-AI listings are down. Those who don’t adapt disappear. Startups are moving fast: Cursor went from zero to $300 million in two years, Waymo grabbed a quarter of San Francisco’s taxi market, Carbon Robotics cut 100,000 gallons of herbicide using AI-powered lasers. China has more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined.

Inference costs have dropped by 99.7% in two years; energy per token has fallen by 105,000 times in a decade. But training a model now costs over $1 billion, and 45% of global data center electricity is consumed in the U.S.

And this is just the beginning.

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16 – The advertising industry is over #ArtificialDecisions #MCC

Those who work with words, images, ideas have already been replaced. Silently. First with promises. Then with efficiency. Now with AI.

Meta and Google have integrated artificial intelligence into the entire ad cycle. It writes the copy, draws the images, chooses who sees them. It does it alone, at scale, all the time. Because it’s cheaper. Because it works. Because it sells. Audiences click. Customers buy. Managers smile. Everything looks perfect.

But no one stops to look deeper. Who wrote that headline? Why am I seeing that image? Who sets the tone, the message, the intent? No one knows. Not even the person who paid for the ad. It’s all generated by a system that optimizes in real time, that invents, adapts, manipulates. Without transparency, oversight, responsibility. The line between information and manipulation is gone. This isn’t just advertising. It’s behavioral programming. And no one is in control.

AI is trained on our preferences, then uses them against us. It knows what we like, what makes us react, what makes us spend. It exploits it, amplifies it, repeats it. Google promises more “relevant” ads. Meta calls them “generative creatives.” But there’s nothing creative—just a nonstop stream of synthetic messages, tailor-made to hit us where we’re weakest.

And this is just the beginning. Every day, billions of ads are generated automatically. Without limits. Without authors. Without faces. And no one, literally no one, knows what’s really going on. AI isn’t helping creatives. It’s replacing them. And we’re being convinced by messages that no human ever wrote.

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15 – US and Iran conflict: the attacks are also digital #ArtificialDecisions #MCC

While bombs fall from the sky, the digital war keeps hitting in silence. It makes no noise, but strikes everywhere: banks, railways, steel plants, gas stations. And behind many of these attacks, the same name keeps surfacing: Predatory Sparrow.

A group born in 2021. Sophisticated, surgical, ruthless. No ransom. No data theft. Just pure sabotage. Like Bank Sepah, hit days ago: ATMs and online services down across Iran. Or the gas stations, with payment systems disabled. Or the Khouzestan Steel Company, where, according to them, molten steel was forced out of the furnace. They even posted the video, like a trailer.

This is cyberwar, but without rules. Everyone denies. No one signs. But suspicion always points in one direction: Israeli intelligence. And while attribution remains vague, the damage is very real.

So real that, in Israel, during the conflict, a former cybersecurity official went on public radio with a warning: “Turn off your home security cameras. Or at least change the password.” Because Iranian hackers, he said, are trying to get in. Not to spy, but to see where their missiles landed and fine-tune the next strike.

In this war, even a forgotten webcam can cost lives. No need for a virus. Just coordinates.

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14 – AI and biological risk #ArtificialDecisions #MCC

We are building an artificial intelligence that can explain how to create deadly, unprecedented biological weapons. OpenAI knows this well, and is preparing. But the risk concerns everyone.

With upcoming models, it will be possible to get detailed instructions on how to synthesize viruses, toxins, and lethal agents, even with no scientific background, just type a request. For now, GPT-4 can’t do it, but OpenAI has already labeled its successors as “high-risk biological threats” because they know these models will be much more capable. Too capable.

The announced safety measures are the strictest ever taken: models trained to reject dangerous content, continuous monitoring, biological red teaming with military and civilian experts, and a global biodefense summit with governments and NGOs planned for July. But the real question is: will that be enough?

Because the problem is not just technical. It’s existential. For the first time in history, dangerous knowledge becomes automated, accessible, instant. AI has no ethics. It doesn’t distinguish between use and abuse, and when it becomes too powerful, the line between science and weapon depends only on the intention behind the prompt.

We are creating a technology that could save millions of lives, but also erase them. And the risk is no longer in the future, it’s a matter of versions, of months, of prompts.

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13 – China and Neucyber: a brain privacy problem #ArtificialDecisions #MCC

China implanted Neucyber in the first three patients. Tetraplegic individuals who now control robotic arms with their thoughts. It’s a breakthrough. But also a warning.

The Neucyber chip is the size of a coin. 2048 electrodes. 15 gigabits per second. It transmits brain data in real time, wirelessly. No encryption. No protection.

The plan is clear: 13 implants by year’s end. 50 in 2026. Then large-scale expansion. All with central government approval. And it happens in a country where control is systemic. Where technology isn’t just progress. It’s power.

This is no longer just digital privacy. It’s mental privacy. The mind as a space to monitor. Thoughts turned into signals. Signals turned into data.

China claims Neucyber is more powerful than Neuralink. And unlike Musk, it doesn’t need approvals. It’s already started. No limits. No opposition.

It has already happened. This is not the future. It’s the present. And it’s irreversible. Because if they can read the brain, they can also rewrite it. And no one will ever notice.

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7 – Sam Altman doesn’t see apocalypse #ArtificialDecisions #MCC

#SamAltman doesn’t see apocalypse—he sees normalization.
In his view, humanity has already crossed the line: the moment when #AI stops amazing us and starts becoming routine.
He calls it the “gentle singularity.”

Each new capability overwhelms us—
but then we adapt.
And we ask for the next one.

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