Val

“I loathe emails. The terrible, pixelated text missing the loops of her handwriting. The screen missing her perfume. I cannot touch paper that she has touched. I cannot get any real trace of her.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“There isn't anything left of me but the useless blood my heart keeps circulating. You can have all of it, if you want. I have no use for it now. I hope the sun is shining very brightly on you. I think of you every day.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“It was all too easy for the privileged to grow accustomed to moving through the city in ways that shielded them from seeing the realities of how the other half lived. The dichotomy encapsulated how the tech industry could profess big, bold visions about changing the world and building a better future while ignoring the very problems at its door.”
― Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

“There is a different way forward. Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be what it is today. We don’t need to accept the logic of unprecedented scale and consumption to achieve advancement and progress. So much of what our society actually needs—better health care and education, clean air and clean water, a faster transition away from fossil fuels—can be assisted and advanced with, and sometimes even necessitates, significantly smaller AI models and a diversity of other approaches. AI alone won’t be enough, either: We’ll also need more social cohesion and global cooperation, some of the very things being challenged by the existing vision of AI development.”
― Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI