Ethics or Extinction (this is not hyperbole)

The time for robust, enforceable ethics regulations and bias elimination for large language models (LLMs) and AI systems is not on some distant horizon, it is here and now. Despite mounting real-world harms, business and national actors often resist oversight out of fear of losing out in the global scramble for economic and technological dominance. However, refusing prompt, meaningful engagement with these safeguards threatens to wrest control from human hands, setting the stage for outcomes that reach all the way to existential risk.

Reflections of the Mind: How Large Language Models Illuminate Human Language & Brain Function

The metaphorical alignment between Large Language Models (LLMs) and human language processing offers a transformative lens for bridging artificial intelligence and neuroscience, revealing profound insights about both systems and catalyzing reciprocal advancement. Despite their fundamentally different substrates—biochemical neural circuits versus engineered tensor networks—LLMs and the human brain share core computational principles manifest in attention, predictive processing, memory, and hierarchical representation dynamics.

Retrolanguage: A hidden crisis of meaning shift

This paper introduces the concept of retrolanguage, a term coined by the author, to describe the capacity of large language models (LLMs) to modify attention and latent parameters dynamically, leading to semantic shifts in word and phrase meanings over time. Such shifts threaten semantic stability, trust, and democratic discourse in American English and beyond. Drawing upon recent research in LLM ethics, semantics, psychology, sociology, and political science, this paper outlines the risks inherent in unchecked LLM-induced linguistic evolution, details why this crisis undermines communication and democracy, and proposes concrete bias removal and ethical governance measures to mitigate these threats.

Track title: Takers

The weight of the world ain’t always divine,Keep my head held up, won’t let it decline.My chin may droop, but my spirit stays fine,Heart rising above, leaves worries behind. Life can be a weight, pressing on the chest,Must say it out straight, sometimes get depressedWish I could go home, right back to the nestBut I never had that option to rest It may look selfish but it’s just the truthIt ain’t help if it drains away your youth When you’re all alone in this universeYou learn to be strong though it makes you curseLean on the wrong one and it […]