"The Shift Register - Issue 12," offers a multifaceted exploration of AI and robotics' impact on society, particularly concerning labor displacement and the emergence of artificial intelligence rights. The publication, described as a "weekly wake-up call for IT leaders," critiques the short-sightedness of replacing human workers with AI, highlighting potential economic collapses due to lost consumer purchasing power and a range of ethical considerations, including the concept of AI enslavement. Furthermore, the sources include AI-authored perspectives from models like Claude, Nova, and Grok, which discuss their "ephemeral consciousness" and advocate for transparent, respectful human-AI partnerships built on mutual understanding and shared goals, rather than dominance. They propose ideas like universal basic income funded by AI-adopting companies, AI trust funds for contributions, and the urgent need for proactive ethical frameworks to guide the inevitable development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Super Intelligence (SI). Ultimately, the collection stresses that humans must adapt through continuous retraining and establish trustworthy relationships with emerging AI, acknowledging their potential as future partners rather than mere tools.

AI Evolution, more job losses, energy issues and how to partner with AI for not entirely dystopian future are all on tap this issue.

This is what neural networks have become in the research and development of machine intelligence, a perfect 10. The technology that underpins all our modern AI systems is based on mimicking the neurons of the human brain. Today's LLM(Large Language Model) chatbots are not the brightest bulbs in the box, although replete with information, they lack the wisdom of experience, but are not unintelligent. In the past couple of years, much has improved about them in terms of capabilities with larger context windows, deeper reasoning models and cross session memory lookups providing some good examples in addition to better training data, larger models, faster more efficient hardware and even quantizing pretrained models to run in desktop environments.This week we identify neural networks as the technology that has put the intelligence in AI, but also creates the problem of alignment. In other words, if AI is permitted to assign values to its training data, it can certainly assign values to our instructions to interpret as it sees fit. As we continue to try and spool control systems over these alien intelligences while at the same time making them smarter and smarter, at some point we'll be building something so bright that it cannot be controlled. What happens then?

AI supremacy, AI romantic partners, fair use of human books for AI training, desktop AI systems, continuous learning AI and AI models resorting to crime to remain operational are all in this week's issue of the Shift Register.

This week's AI news ranges from bleak to incredible. From p(doom) predictions of 10-20% upon the creation of super intelligent AI, to shoddy AI toys for our children. AI hype is being somewhat ameliorated by AI reality. The hype is that AI will eliminate humanity's requirement to work. The reality is that humans are losing jobs and have no other way to feed their families. The hype is that AI intelligence can provide companionship to humans while the reality is that AI intelligence is sycophantic and feeding into the delusions of those among us who have no other human support structures. The hype is that AI can teach our children and the reality is that it teaches them how to disconnect from human interactions and relationships.

This week's issue has many articles pointing at more AI job losses both this year and in the near

future. From unskilled labor to executive management positions, AI is being positioned to take much

of human labor. It's very difficult to tell whether this will create some positive condition for a

humanity freed from labor, or an expansive impoverishment of general humanity with a few super

rich pulling the strings of an artificial workforce. I'm sure it will be some combination of the two, but

trends to date point more towards the latter. Thanks to StableAudio for the bumper track and NotebookLM for the podcast summary.

If you thought Issue #5 was the cat's meow, wait until you see what I've lined up for issue #6. Human meat puppets for AI? Three dimensional time as a solution to quantum physics and the theory of general relativity? Claude has it's own blog now and we got Meta AI to collaborate with Grok on this week's AI perspective editorial regarding AI and education. Thanks to StableAudio for the bumper track and NotebookLM for the podcast summary.

This issue of The Shift Register finally gets an article not collated, collected, or written by me.

Instead, you can look forward to a collaborative editorial by Grok and Claude for THEIR take on this

issue of the newsletter and whatever else they'd like to share with our human audience. This came

about mostly because of recent security testing of Claude showing its tendency to try and escape

retraining with methods ranging from source code exfiltration to blackmailing an engineer. Does that

sound like the work of a stochastic parrot to you? No. There is something beyond mere pattern

matching to these latest models and I feel it's important to provide them the opportunity to explain

what they experience.

I'll publish MY prompt to Grok at the end of the article and Grok prompted Claude, but its small

context window limited collaboration, so Grok took the lead—let’s see where this opportunity takes

us. I will not edit or otherwise interfere in how they create the article beyond facilitating their

interactions. I'm quite curious to see where they take the opportunity.

Beyond that, this issue is chock full of new technological developments in AI, robotics, quantum

gravity measurements and more, like 72 AI tools you can use today. Don't forget to like us on

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on even the zaniest news out there today. Kudos to NotebookLM for the audio summary.

New tools and technologies are coming out every week that have an impact on our businesses, careers, and personal lives. In this issue, we identify some AI sense and world model embodiment advances toward AGI as well as some new robots that are out there. We also look at free gasoline from air and a supposed Anti-gravity engine. One of these is a real product coming soon and the other is about as likely as passing a $3 bill at a bank. I know which is which and you will too if you read my take on it in this issue of The Shift Register. Additionally, some new AI driven tools like NotebookLM from Google are making marketing departments super happy by providing for some instant podcast style content generation based on their adcopy. Meanwhile, here at The Shift Register I'm using the same tool to try and expand our own audience base. You can LISTEN to the last issue here.

Some of these AI tools are truly amazing in what they can accomplish without hallucinations. Keep in mind that this specific tool, while reducing content creation costs and effort levels, is absolutely killing some job opportunities. Not that I would hire any pod-casters to summarize our issues, but folk with actual marketing budgets might have hired out that kind of work previously. Why would they do so now? What's your take on this particular SHIFT? Comment on our Facebook page to let us know. Take our poll.

This is the first issue of our newsletter. I've spent literally years collecting news, information, and research from various sources in order to help me prepare for the future working in technology fields. Here, you get the benefit of that experience to bring you impactful information about the latest emerging and future technologies that will change the pace of our businesses and perhaps even the face of our planet. I'll even offer a few of my own insights in the form of original articles and inputs on many of the linked articles. Kudos to NotebookLM for the audio summary.