#ben buchanan

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Jean Michel Basquiat by Ben Buchanan 1984

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Madonna and Eric Goode at AREA nightclub in 1985, by Ben Buchanan

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“He was in my photography class at school when we were 16. We were photo partners on many occasions this was taken when walking through the drama department, it's a mask from Macbeth” - Ben Buchanan

Photo © Ben Buchanan

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Tom Waits by Ben Buchanan

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Basquiat on the turntables at AREA nightclub. Photo by Ben Buchanan, 1985.

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I need to get off Facebook before I start sending messages to people who I shouldn't be sending messages to. Like, go to sleep bitch 🤦🏻‍♀️😭

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The Government Knows AGI is Coming

Artificial general intelligence — an A.I. system that can beat humans at almost any cognitive task — is arriving in just a couple of years.

"Artificial general intelligence — an A.I. system that can beat humans at almost any cognitive task — is arriving in just a couple of years. That’s what people tell me — people who work in A.I. labs, researchers who follow their work, former White House officials. A lot of these people have been calling me over the last couple of months trying to convey the urgency. This is coming during President Trump’s term, they tell me. We’re not ready.

One of the people who reached out to me was Ben Buchanan, the top adviser on A.I. in the Biden White House. And I thought it would be interesting to have him on the show for a couple reasons: He’s not connected to an A.I. lab, and he was at the nerve center of policymaking on A.I. for years. So what does he see coming? What keeps him up at night? And what does he think the Trump administration needs to do to get ready for the AGI — or something like AGI — he believes is right on the horizon?"

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Eek.

If true, then....five? years down the road humans are rendered obsolete across much of the economy? Then what?

More background on the likely advent of AGI:

AGI could now arrive as early as 2026 — but not all scientists agree

Predictions on the dawn of the AI singularity vary wildly but scientists generally say it will come before 2040, according to new analysis,