Not so competent AI overlords - Paul Jacobson

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Not so competent AI overlords

2026-08-12

AI and Machine Learning

People are worried that our soon-to-be AI overlords will take over our lives and run human civilization into the ground with their superior intelligence.

Those people probably haven’t had the frustratingly frequent experience of seeing these agents utterly fail to successfully complete tasks we ask and empower them to do. Repeatedly.

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