OG Approved - No BS Tech News # 98

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Olivier Gomez (OG)
December 04, 2025

🚀 Welcome to the Real AI Conversation

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💡What’s the Big Idea?

Relying on AI (LLMs) to fetch and summarise information for you can lead to a weaker, shallower understanding than if you actively dig through sources yourself.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. In a study with over 10,000 participants, people who used an LLM to learn a topic ended up writing advice that was shorter, more generic, and less factual than those who learned through classic web search.

2. Even when given the same set of facts, learning via an LLM led to shallower mental models than when people read and synthesized information themselves.

3. The “friction” involved in manual research — navigating sources, interpreting content, synthesizing — actually builds deeper, original knowledge; AI removes that friction, turning learning passive.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

If you trade mental effort for convenience, you’ll lose depth — and when it counts (making decisions, solving hard problems, building real understanding) you’ll arrive underarmed.

⭐OG Rating:

4/5 The study delivers a powerful warning: AI shortcuts often cost you more than you think. I dock one point because AI still has a place — when used strategically rather than as a crutch.

💡What’s the Big Idea?

The National AI Plan launched by the Australian government chooses to oversee AI with existing laws and frameworks instead of building an entirely new, AI-specific legal regime.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. The plan aims to push AI adoption rapidly — with investments in data centres, training, and infrastructure — while leaning on current consumer protection, workplace, and sectoral laws to handle risks.

2. Instead of “mandatory guardrails,” the government is relying on voluntary transparency measures and existing regulations, deferring stronger legal intervention unless risk proves unmanageable.

3. The plan foresees support for workers and social safeguards — including reviews of workplace rules to deal with AI-driven bias, surveillance, and unfair rostering/automation — before wide deployment of AI in workplaces.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

When a government bets on “use, not over-regulate,” it signals that raw growth and adoption of AI matter more than building new protections — meaning societies need to stay alert or risk being shaped by AI before rights and norms catch up.

⭐OG Rating:3/5 The plan is pragmatic: it pushes for economic and infrastructure gain, avoids panic-driven over-regulation, and keeps flexibility. But that looseness means big risks — weak accountability, patchy safeguards, and a possibility that harms outpace protections.

💡What’s the Big Idea?

The article argues that the rise of powerful AI and robotics poses existential risks to democracy, labor, privacy, the environment—and humanity itself—and therefore the US Congress must step in immediately to impose strong oversight.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. AI isn’t just another tech upgrade — it threatens core institutions: jobs, political processes, individual privacy, mental health, social equality, and even environmental sustainability.

2. The development of AI is concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite of wealthy tech firms, without democratic accountability. That concentration raises the stakes: decisions about society will be shaped not by public consent but by whoever controls the code.

3. As AI capabilities advance, especially toward super-intelligence or autonomous systems, potential harms grow fast — from mass job displacement and social instability to existential risk if AI escapes human control.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

When what shapes your future is written in code by a few, and not debated by society, you’re handing over your fate — ignorance looks like convenience until the bill comes due.

⭐OG Rating:

5/5 This argument hits at the core: unchecked AI won’t just shift industries — it reshapes society, power structures, and maybe survival itself. Better to treat this as an imperative, not an option.

💡What’s the Big Idea?

The frantic, cash-driven rush by big tech and startups to build “ultimate AI” (AGI/superintelligence) is accelerating so fast that the risks — societal, ethical, even existential — may outpace our ability to understand or control the outcome.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. Global AI players, from Silicon Valley to China, are pouring in trillions of dollars and talent to hit AGI first — fueling a hyper-competitive atmosphere where speed is prioritized over caution.

2. The infrastructure being built — massive data centers, high-power hardware, AI labs — consumes extreme resources and moves far faster than laws, norms, or safety frameworks meant to govern it.

3. Insiders themselves warn that the pace is “much too fast” and that a fusion of broken work-life balance, profit chasing, regulatory lag, and opaque decision-making is creating a volatile environment — one where unanticipated negative outcomes (bias, misinformation, cyber-attacks, job destruction, even existential risk) look more probable with each leap.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

When the builders of the future press on the gas without raising the guardrails, you don’t get better outcomes — you get a faster slide into uncertainty and potential disaster.

⭐OG Rating:

5/5 This piece pulls no punches. It exposes the reckless tempo behind AI’s push for “superhuman” — and forces a confrontation with what we’re sacrificing for speed.

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