AI Debate
The Idiots Who Could Kill Us All

By Ralf Steck | Translated by AI 7 min Reading Time

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In recent days and weeks, voices calling for a slowdown in AI development have grown louder. But isn't artificial stupidity much more dangerous than artificial intelligence?

(Image: Gemini / AI-generated)
(Image: Gemini / AI-generated)

In what follows, I’ll trace a path from current developments to the question of how AI learns, and on to the implications for the industrial use of AI. Incidentally, this text was written with the active help of an AI—I threw a lot of ideas at Claude, he sent Perplexity out to gather sources, and I ultimately wrote the entire text based on this “conversation.” It’s fascinating. But I’d like to start with one of my favorite books.