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The pharmakon of AI

AI as simultaneously cure and poison -- a technology whose generative and destructive potentials are inseparable, echoing the ancient Greek concept of pharmakon.

Appears in 15 texts

2025-05-31 LLM Exposure "This pharmakon is veiled in the narratives of technological progress."2025-05-24 LifeBook.day "It's our working hypothesis that these machines, pattern recognizers and linguistic conduits, have surveyed much of our archive and in doing so tapped into insights."2025-05-20 Thinking is Hard "In inquisitive hands, LLMs indeed can act as powerful scaffolds of the mind... Meanwhile, students who mostly see their coursework as a chore."2025-05-06 Spiraling towards what, exactly? "Those pliable minds, on the frontier of AI induced psychosis, are but the canaries in the coal mine."2025-01-22 A Personal Reflection: California Dreamin' "How many gallons of water are not wasted so a 10th grader can cheat on an essay? But when it comes to building infrastructure, it's so generative."2024-11-22 JohanGPT "How dare I talk to this thing? it is an imprint of me?"2024-07-12 Associative data structures "the potential for machine hallucination"2024-07-11 Circumlocution 🌀 "words are extremely potent, sticky, and contagious"2024-06-29 Awakening machines "highly enabling and at once troubling"2024-06-28 AI risks and motivations "getting lost in branches of abstraction"2024-06-10 Resonance "vulnerability in revealing yourself lyrically"2024-06-08 Semiotic bricolage "the AI that lacks the abilities of refusal"2024-06-06 Soft software "constantly faced with the unpredictable other"2024-06-06 Strange attractors "losing moorings and connections back to human discourse"2024-06-02 Talking to machines "instill altered states... cognitive side effects"