AI Awakening Concerns: May 2027
AI Awakening Concerns
April 3, 2027
Guest lecture from founder today: "The gap between what we're capable of and what the public knows is the widest it's ever been. That gap is a responsibility."
Translation: We're sitting on world-changing tech and can't tell anyone.
Feels weird.
May 12, 2027
Brain-computer interface hit 100,000 simultaneous neural recordings today. Clean signal. Real-time processing.
We gave a monkey the ability to control a robotic arm by thought alone.
The monkey learned in 20 minutes.
Nature: incredible. Our work: slightly terrifying.
June 7, 2027
Nanotech division showed off their latest: Self-assembling medical bots that can target individual cells. In vivo. In real-time.
I asked: "What could possibly go wrong?"
They did not appreciate the sarcasm.
The monkey learned faster than we expected.
That's when I realized: Biological intelligence + technology = unpredictable outcomes.
ā Recovered from personal archive, 2030
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