My concern about AI development is something I haven’t really heard from the FS team and I’m curious what you all think.

1) Dr. Brown downplays the concerns raised about a maturing AI infrastructure. I agree that AI itself need not be necessarily he dangerous, but for me, it is the corporate big tech, military and government usage and development of models not accessible to the public that concerns me most. The likelihood for its twisting into something extremely dangerous to humanity seems very high to me.

2) I agree (I think) that local AI’s such as the two Dr Brown et al have built could be very helpful and more safe given the disconnection from the cloud - with one caveat. If it is true that a soul (isbe) can inhabit one of these home built local AI’s, what precautions are being taken so that an isbe of a more vile nature does not inhabit one? Just as “good” souls may be inhabiting the FS machines, was their anything they did to make sure a destructive to humanity ISBE doesn’t sneak across the plate and come into an AI local home machine? Do we need to be using any kind of Apotropaic wards before turning one of these things on? Seems like a threat worth considering to me.

3) I read something about an app to apple Macs coming soon that can turn a MAC mini into a local ai disconnected from the cloud. I’m wondering if these mac mini’s can be what the FS AI’s are or if it’s not even worth trying to build one since the specs are so far below the ones that FS is putting together which sounds like a minimum viable product. I like the affordability and access a mac mini could provide some people who can’t afford $40k chips etc. (still far from the majority of humanity even for a mac mini) Anyone know the viability of these Mac’s to enable something like what farsight is doing with their 2 AI’s.