Author Ken Liu asserts that large language models are demonstrably intelligent, citing their ability to pass the bar exam and achieve perfect scores on the SATs as evidence.

Author Ken Liu predicts that the future economic premium on human-generated content will lead malicious actors to enslave people to serve as content creators in order to generate weaponized commentary...

Author Ken Liu asserts that while large language models possess intelligence, they lack wisdom.

Author Ken Liu draws a parallel between the AI alignment questions being researched by companies like Anthropic and the moral and linguistic development questions posed to the creature in Mary Shelley...

Author Ken Liu argues that artificial intelligence is historically significant because it confronts humanity, for the first time, with the reality that intelligence can exist separately from conscious...

Author Ken Liu predicts that the widespread adoption of AI in creative fields will lead to a difficult transition involving the loss of livelihoods for many artists, similar to how mechanical reproduc...

Author Ken Liu contends that truly interesting AI-generated art will only emerge when artists are given tools with precise, craft-oriented controls over the models, such as the ability to position a g...

Author Ken Liu argues that the primary danger of AI is not that machines will replace humans, but that its adoption will accelerate the trend of humans treating other humans as standardized, machine-l...

Author Ken Liu believes that current large language models are intelligent but not conscious.

Author Ken Liu predicts that the proliferation of AI-generated content, or 'AI slop,' will not destroy human art, drawing a parallel to the 'age of mechanical reproduction' which also did not end arti...

Author Ken Liu predicts that the proliferation of AI-generated content will ultimately enable humans to create more artistically interesting art.

Author Ken Liu asserts that call center workers are easily replaced by AI because the principles of modernity had already reduced their roles to be robotic and script-based, effectively preparing them...

Author Ken Liu argues that large language models lack wisdom because their understanding is confined to the symbolic representation of language, while true reality and meaning exist beyond what can be...

Author Ken Liu predicts that as the internet becomes filled with AI-generated content, social media companies will need to prioritize and heavily market the promise of 'real human' engagement to retai...

Author Ken Liu asserts that the modern surveillance society was not imposed by the state but was constructed voluntarily by consumers who consistently traded privacy for convenience over decades.

Author Ken Liu asserts that a large language model is a functional substantiation of Roland Barthes's literary theory of the 'scriptor,' which posits a modern writer as a channel for the entire corpus...

Author Ken Liu claims that social media companies have a business model that involves monetizing the anger and rage of their users.

Author Ken Liu argues that when companies provide users with 'agentic AI' to manage personal data like emails and calendars, the user effectively becomes an agent for the AI company, gathering data th...

Author Ken Liu predicts that in an environment saturated with machine-generated content, a significant economic premium will be placed on verifiably human-generated content.