AI vs. Everything we care about

Two reports speak of the stark attitudes towards AI's impact on society, culture and the economy. Time to dive into some AI summer reports, the human kind. 🚨

I never intended to become an AI report sleuth 🦎, but unbridled curiosity takes you to some funny places. This week I’ve been reading a new batch of AI studies a bit off the beaten track.

• 🏃 Research from Seismic Foundation is a large-scale effort to answer how ordinarily people view AI risks. Download the entire report.

• 🗽 The other that caught my attention is by The Autonomy Institute: Download the entire report.

• Meanwhile, more than 40 researchers from these rival labs co-authored a new paper arguing that the current ability to observe an AI model’s reasoning — via step-by-step internal monologues written in human language — could soon vanish. (see video explanation).

• With the emergence of Amazon Kiro and Reflection AI’s Asimov agent, this State of AI Code Generation Survey report by Stacklok is worth checking out.

AI risks to ordinary people and what they care about and public U.S. markets are things I think about nearly every day in my coverage of AI and exploration of the space from multiple angles.

I’m going to mix insights and infographics from the two reports because I found them so stimulating.

This might be of interest to you if you consider AI risk seriously and want a view of how actual people on the street view AI and its impact.

Articles you might have missed

• Deep Dive on Thinky's Seed Round (Part II)

• The Pentagon just went all in on AI

• Will AI Agents really Automate Jobs at Scale?

How People see AI’s Impact 🌱

If you care about the future as it relates to AI, you might want to go over this report with your teenagers. 🤯

• This debrief of reports will mostly focus on AI risks to ordinarily people (survey was skewed to Europe)

• It’s one of the best depictions of how ordinary citizens view AI and how sentiment towards Generative AI might be changing I’ve ever seen.

Get Orientated

Check out my AI reddit where I own some small real-estate there praising the ecosystem including the work of others.

Sections of Note 📝

• Artificial General Intelligence

• AI Tool Guides

• Robotics & Physical AI