Our AI future and the need to stop the bear

Here, in pdf, is my latest essay Our AI future and the need to stop the bear.¹

In it, I describe humanity's current predicament regarding existential AI risk, and our urgent need to solve the situation. This is important stuff. I didn't intend it when I started writing, but towards the end it turns into a pamphlet, a manifesto, a call to action. If you read just one thing by me in 2025, let this essay be it. Here!

Footnote

1) Perhaps you wonder about the bear. I rarely write about bears, so what about the bear? It comes from a metaphor by Connor Leahy, which I quote on p 2 of my essay:

My emphasis on the risks stems from a realization of how urgent the need to mitigate them has become. In a recent podcast, AI researcher Connor Leahy went further in his colorful motivation for this prioritization by stating that “it is not useful to philosophize about the communist utopia if a bear is currently ramming down your door”.