Tuesday, March 31, 2026

TUESDAY — TECHNOLOGY & WORK

“People developing it don’t really understand how it works. And we’re pouring billions, even trillions of dollars into that arms race.”

— Roman Yampolskiy, AI safety researcher

We’ve entered a peculiar era where the people writing the checks and the people writing the code share something in common: neither fully understands what they’re building. Yampolskiy isn’t anti-AI; he uses the latest models daily, yet his core concern is that deployment speed has lapped our understanding of side effects by several lengths. To learn more, Check out the article This AI Researcher Says the People Building AI Don’t Understand How It Works.

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad