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“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

“I am not afraid of the nuns anymore. I have been in Eden all Summer long, I know divinity better than they ever will.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“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

“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