The Unseen Battle: How AI Is Escaping Our Grip and Rewriting Reality

— Neal Stephenson

His two big worries remain carbon emissions, which he believes has technological fixes, and people’s failure to agree on what reality is, which has no obvious answer. He worries that bot farms deliberately drown out truth online to serve other agendas, making it harder to find.

The thinking he chooses not to outsource

He is using AI to write code but not to summarize his research. Reading sources, taking notes, and comparing them with old notes creates connections a summary never would.

Asked about brain-computer interfaces, he said they don’t interest him: translating thoughts into words is the point.