Val

“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

“I have not changed my mind. You seem to think I have all the power here, like I was going to decide not to want you anymore. I'm powerless.
If you want me, I'm yours.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“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

“In the simplest terms, empires amassed extraordinary riches across space and time, through imposing a colonial world order, at great expense to everyone else.”
― Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI