Dave Drodge

“The number of independent researchers not affiliated with or receiving funding from the tech industry has rapidly dwindled, diminishing the diversity of ideas in the field not tied to short-term commercial benefit.”
― Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

“Melting permafrost is also releasing ancient microbes that today’s humans have never been exposed to—and as a result have no resistance”
― Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

“You should try inviting AI to help you in everything you do, barring legal or ethical barriers. As you experiment, you may find that AI help can be satisfying, or frustrating, or useless, or unnerving. But you aren’t just doing this for help alone; familiarizing yourself with AI’s capabilities allows you to better understand how it can assist you—or threaten you and your job.”
― Ethan Mollick, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

“Often the case with people who don't read fiction. Hollow inside, monochrome, so they can switch gears no problem. They swallow something and forget about it as soon as it goes down their throat. Constitutionally incapable of empathy. These are people who most need to read, but in most cases it's already too late.”
― Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train