“As we seek to bridge the gaps between chatbots, humanoid pigs, species jumping viruses, and planetwide systems, the chimera can serve as a fruitful guide that reminds us of the fundamental incoherence that lies at the heart of being, turning our attention away from gadgetry and innovation-centric hype that runs through so much of modern discourse and directing it towards the sinews and cartilage, bacteria and viruses, animals and beasts and subhuman things caught up in our technoculture.”
“The truth is, once you have been around long enough and have some experience, confidence and independence, there is a tremendous letting go of the things that are intrusive in your career: Ambition, narcissism, jealousy, vanity, insecurity.”
“But there is another, more insidious form of dependency that is not so far away. That is the handing over of power to a technology we may not fully understand… many AI systems are opaque and even the researchers who built them often don’t fully understand the decision-making.”