🧵 Episode 3 of @vox.com Future Perfect Good Robot podcast series with Unexplainable asks a powerful question: If you saw a child drowning right in front of you, would you save them—even if it ruined your suit and made you late? Easy, right? But philosopher @petersinger.info pushes this further...

Episode 2 of Good Robot, our collaboration between @voxdotcom.bsky.social 's Unexplainable and Future Perfect, is here! This week, we explore how good intentions in AI research can sometimes lead to deeply troubling results.

1/ 🚨 NEW: I’m launching Good News, a newsletter for @vox.com that challenges one of the most overlooked biases shaping our worldview—the bias for bad news. We overestimate crisis and underestimate progress. If we care about accuracy, we need to fix that.

A lot of America — and not just Trump voters — pulled a lever to blow up the system on Nov. 5. The system has failed us, but without it, we're even more exposed to major catastrophic risks www.vox.com/future-perfe...