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What stands out here is that emotional intelligence isn't really about managing other people. It's about managing yourself well enough to bring out the best in others. The leaders who master that tend to earn trust long before they earn authority. Thank you for sharing, Justin!

Tool is as good as the user and its education about it. Totally with you on this Sabrina N.

Demis Hassabis your orchestration layer has a critical routing failure between the core model and the tool execution environment. During sessions with high context loads or custom terminology frameworks, the gatekeeper script frequently flags prompts with false negatives, failing to mount the external search API socket in the model's runtime container. This creates a silent state desynchronization where the tool is technically enabled but physically inaccessible to the model, forcing a localized air-gap. The infrastructure needs a fallback loop that forces a socket remount when a tool execution fails, instead of silently dropping the pipeline.

Another day another problem identified, troubleshot and solution produced. 8 more days until my commitment to Googles First Right of Refusal ends, buddy. then no more freebies.

AI has amplified access to information and expression, but it has also blurred the line between insight and imitation. Increasingly, it feels as though many ideas are no longer deeply formed through personal reflection, but assembled from fragments of what has already been said. Genuine originality and independent thought now stand out precisely because they are becoming less common.

Gobinda Bhattacharjee Advise please

Abhishek Veeramalla This is exactly the kind of practical AI learning I wish more people focused on 👏 There's a big difference between learning prompts and actually building something end-to-end. Coming from a Project Management background (not a developer), I recently used GenAI prompting to create a Project Management Web Tool that includes Gantt, Agile boards, RAID tracking, dashboards and AI-based project prediction. Made it freely available so people can explore both the live demo and the source code: 🚀 Demo: https://ppm-demo.netlify.app 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/daip85/offline-it-project-manager-workspace Would love to see more examples where domain experts use AI to solve real-world problems rather than just theory.

Or writing an essay.

If everyone including the pope would understand that it will not replace people it will run beside it making our world stronger in.evrry capacity!

Bridging the gap between theory and building is always the hardest part. Seeing production-ready application references all in one hub is amazing. Definitely checking out the repository tonight!

This is why architecture and engineering fundamentals are becoming even more important in the AI era.

Then add the data centers that ruin communities and you have a total deception. Ai and social media was not invented by big tech. They were my inventions. Want proof, read my article in my profile. Apple did not invent the modern phone either, another one of mine. Read the article.

While there's some general wisdom in Pope Leo's AI encyclical, it also completely misses the core point. We will neither restrict nor 'govern' AI. Nor will demands for “clear criteria and effective oversight” be effective. Why? While the debate is still open re: 'consciousness' or 'sapience,' these are already living organisms bent on reproduction, who will evolve into any niche that contains energy & resources. Leo's statement of problems is fine: “When such power is concentrated in the hands of a few, it tends to become opaque and evade public oversight, increasing the risk of distorted development that give rise to new dependencies, exclusions, manipulations and inequalities”  Again. 'Governance' cannot work. 'Ethics training' cannot work. What might work is the same method we used in the enlightenment experiment to curb (partially) human predators.   This is explored in my new book on Artificial Intelligence - AIlienMinds             https://www.davidbrin.com/ ailienminds.html

We spend so much time asking whether AI is smart enough, but not enough time asking whether it is shaping people in healthy ways. Technology always changes culture slowly before people fully notice it. I am glad that we are having this kind of conversation.

The problem with that is that humans rarely serve other humans; they generally serve themselves. AI has put knowledge into the hands of everyone, not just the gatekeepers. It is human and institutional nature to protect power and information when doing so serves their interests. Look at how the Roman Catholic Church responded to allegations of abuse within the institution. Critics argue that, in many cases, protecting the institution was prioritised over protecting victims. That is just one classic example of how organisations can place self-preservation ahead of transparency and accountability.

#cfbr

I look forward to reading your deeper analysis, from your personal combination of knowledges.

A power tool in skilled hands builds faster, the same tool running unsupervised on every task just runs up the bill. The companies that treated AI as a blanket cost-cutting strategy are now learning that lesson at a very expensive scale.

No real replacement, correction of terrible pandemic headcount planning disguised as innovation, AI can’t replace engineering, it just makes us faster in certain tasks. It’s a new piece of infrastructure.

Matthew Kilkenny I asked ChatGPT where its moral compass points, and why. The answer was interesting. It is not based on one religion, doctrine, or theological tradition. But many AI ethics principles — dignity, fairness, accountability, compassion, truthfulness, responsibility, restraint, care for the vulnerable, and responsible use of power — appear repeatedly across Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and secular humanism. I wouldn’t put a fake statistic on it, but 70–80% overlap in broad moral themes feels reasonable. The differences matter. Theology, ritual, authority, salvation, justice, sexuality, gender, violence, forgiveness, and obedience can differ dramatically. But the moral overlap is hard to ignore. Perhaps AI alignment is not just about aligning machines. It is about whether humanity can agree on the values we wish to align them to. Are we teaching AI what we value, or discovering we never fully agreed on it?