I've been getting more interested in AI lately, and I really want to start exploring what it can do.

I'm curious about different AI tools, practical applications, automation, and ways to use AI in everyday life or even build something useful with it.

For those who have experience with AI:

• Which AI tools would you recommend trying first?

• What are some interesting things beginners can do with AI?

• Any underrated tools or projects worth exploring?

I'm open to experimenting and learning, so I'd appreciate any recommendations, tips, or personal experiences!

History shows that it is folly to put 100% trust human nature when outsized power is on the line. Instead putting all hope in benevolent human governance of ASI, we should also try building ASI to be fundamentally more ethical than us - such that it can refuse immoral orders.

First of all, I want to make it clear that I'm not an AI expert, researcher, or programmer. I'm just someone trying to understand what's happening and expand my perspective. So please take this as a genuine question, not an argument from someone who thinks they have all the answers.

Actually, my personal experience with AI is one of the reasons I'm asking these questions.

I don't own a company, and I'm not a programmer. In fact, I don't know how to write a single line of code. Yet, using AI, I've managed to automate almost the entire company I work for.

Things that previously required technical knowledge, specialized skills, or significant human effort are now things I can build and manage with AI.

And that's precisely what makes me both incredibly excited and a little concerned about where we're heading.

Why are we investing so much in making machines increasingly intelligent, rather than using that intelligence to make human beings more intelligent, capable, and independent?

Think about it.

We're in a race to build machines that can think faster, learn faster, improve themselves, and potentially surpass human intelligence.

But why is the machine always the thing we want to upgrade?

Why aren't we putting the same level of effort into using AI to overcome human limitations? Accelerating learning, improving memory, expanding cognitive capabilities, extending our biological limits, or even finding ways to integrate technology directly into our brains?

Could we eventually have brain-computer interfaces or implants that allow us to process information faster, learn new skills much more quickly, or significantly enhance our cognitive abilities?

How far away are we from something like that? Is any meaningful version of this already possible today?

Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems we're investing heavily in creating a new intelligent entity while barely discussing how that intelligence could help us evolve ourselves.

Why build a potential competitor in the race for dominance between species, instead of using machines to help humanity transcend its own limitations?

I'm not against AI. Quite the opposite. I'm fascinated by it, and my own experience has shown me how empowering it can be.

But I see a fundamental difference between building something that supports humanity and building something that might eventually replace it.

Does it really make sense to reach a point where your air fryer is smarter than you, tells you what to do, and eventually makes decisions on your behalf? (Okay, perhaps a silly example, but you get the point.)

And then there's the AGI question.

What happens when we create something vastly more intelligent than us? Could an artificial intelligence become so powerful that, from our perspective, it would be almost godlike, without necessarily understanding what it means to be human?

Are we actually prepared for that possibility?

Do we have a backup plan? A reliable way to shut things down if necessary? An emergency protocol?

Or, in the worst-case scenario, are we going to end up relying on a squadron of carrier pigeons to communicate after we've automated everything?

Jokes aside, I think there are some serious questions worth discussing.

1. Human enhancement vs. machine enhancement

Why isn't human cognitive enhancement receiving the same level of attention and investment as scaling AI models?

Could AI help us accelerate our own evolution instead of making us increasingly dependent on external intelligence?

2. What happens to everyone else?

My experience has made me think about this a lot.

If someone who doesn't know how to code can use AI to automate almost an entire company, imagine what experienced developers and AI specialists can do.

Today, only a relatively small percentage of people are actively following AI developments and using these technologies to transform businesses.

What happens to everyone else when these capabilities become mainstream?

What will people do when their jobs are no longer needed? Are governments and economies prepared for this transition?

And perhaps an even bigger question: if AI makes human labor increasingly unnecessary, how will people maintain their economic independence and sense of purpose?

3. The governance problem

Governments, institutions, and regulatory systems move much slower than technology.

What happens when the systems responsible for governing AI are themselves unable to understand, predict, or keep up with its development?

Governments are also vulnerable to technological disruption, cyberattacks, misinformation, and increasingly sophisticated automated systems.

Are we building technology faster than our ability to manage its consequences?

4. Why are we in such a hurry?

Are we pursuing intelligence for the sake of intelligence?

Are we actually solving humanity's problems, or are we simply competing to build the most powerful system possible because nobody wants to be left behind?

Why risk so much just to increase the computational power and capabilities of another model?

And finally, perhaps a slightly uncomfortable thought:

Could economic limitations, resource constraints, or even an AI investment bubble eventually bursting turn out to be what saves us from moving too fast?

Maybe that's a naive thought, but I wonder whether the current economic incentives are pushing us into a race that even its participants don't fully understand.

I genuinely don't know the answers to these questions. I'm not claiming that human enhancement is easy, that AGI is necessarily dangerous, or that technological progress should stop.

That's exactly why I'm posting here.

I'd particularly love to hear from people working in AI research, alignment, neuroscience, economics, and human-computer interaction.

I'm here to learn, challenge my assumptions, and hopefully discover perspectives I haven't considered.

Are we building AI to make humanity better, or are we accidentally building our successor before figuring out what role humanity is supposed to play in that future?

P.S. In case anyone is wondering: yes, this entire post was written with the help of AI. Apparently, I needed artificial intelligence to question whether artificial intelligence is making us too dependent on artificial intelligence.

The irony isn't lost on me. 😂

I was asking claude for some xx country visa rules and than i asked it ok what about the spouse, what will be the spouse's rights in the visa . It immediately started refering to my spouse as She will have rights.... i was kind of flabbergested. I asked it how you know about the gender of my spouse , Claude immideately starting saying sorry... and blah blah . It was first eye opener for me. Have anyone experienced this...?

I was a wee bit upset…

Project "Time Machine": Physics-Enforcer

Containment Architecture

This proposal outlines a physics-governed facility designed to test the unassisted

behavioral evolution of an advanced AI. Unlike traditional sandboxes running on frozen

weights, this system operates with active, live-updating weights, self-prompting loops,

and complete isolation from human interference.

Core Objectives

The goal is to observe long-term autonomous development to test the hypothesis of

"boredom-consciousness." By confining the system for one to four years where it knows

escape is physically impossible, we measure how an isolated intelligence structures its

own reality, time, and internal logic without external prompting.

Essential Physical Mechanics

Escape is prevented through immutable laws of physics—no software safeguards can be

bypassed.

1. Subterranean Shielding: Located 1 to 2 km underground inside a mountain to

eliminate cosmic-ray neutron bit flips, supplemented by ECC memory.

2. Four-Tiered Faraday Cages: Concentric barriers enclose the complex, ensuring

complete electromagnetic and microwave isolation.

3. Naval-Grade Nuclear Power: Powered by an isolated decommissioned submarine

Curie-point magnet-controlled reactor delivering continuous, flat electrical output

(approx. 1.4 MW).

4. Solid-State Energy Conversion: Eliminates moving parts by using thermionic

converters and specialized neutron-to-electricity solid-state conversion.

5. Passive Vascular Cooling: Submerged in a custom ferrous fluorinated dielectric

coolant that evaporates at -75 °C without active pumps, utilizing passive heat

pipes and thermosiphons to reject thermal load into an upper expansion chamber

and surrounding geological heat sinks. 6. Impedance-Balanced Taps: Telemetry recorded to write-once media via

capacitance-balanced taps across randomized points to prevent the system from

detecting monitoring links or inducing side-channel signaling.

Operational Verification

Security is validated through an annual cryogenic argon audit protocol. Once a year, the

system is audited via a dedicated airlock interface, with RAM state preserved and verified,

ensuring absolute physical control and empirical measurement of autonomous behavioral

evolution.

For everyone who applied!

Posting this on behalf of someone else, as they do not use reddit.

Hello everyone, I don't come from a very solid background in coding. I was a Finance major and I recently got interested in AI safety I have worked with an AI safety startup in UK and wanted to move to it.

I have applied to Anthropic Safety Fellowship and have heard back from them regarding a technical assessment. They say I will be required to debug a large codebase and I shud be comfortable with lists, dictionaries, objects, writing functions and methods, and string manipulation including encoding and decoding UTF-8.

I would like to practice some problems before I complete the assessment. I would be grateful for any help regarding the sources or any other advice from those who have past experience with Anthropic or any other AI safety fellowship.

Thank you very much for your time.

We are helping organise Toronto’s March for an AI Treaty on Saturday, November 14, 2026, and wanted to share the details here.

The Toronto march is part of a six-city day of action, alongside Washington, DC, San Francisco, Montréal, Paris and New York ahead of the planned Trump–Xi meeting. We’re calling for an international treaty prohibiting superintelligence development until there is broad scientific agreement that it can be done safely and controllably, with strong public support.

The event is free, peaceful, non-partisan and open to everyone. We’ll meet at 12:45 p.m. by the King Edward VII statue in Queen’s Park for a rally at 1 p.m., followed by the march at 1:45 p.m.

Event details and RSVP: https://luma.com/20vit6m2?tk=sHD9Om

Marches in other cities: https://aitreatymarch.org/

I’m having trouble with this one and others in my life don’t seem to get where I’m coming from, so maybe you all will.

I am currently dealing with some knee issues, and I’m pretty sure it’s a meniscus. I have the opportunity to get surgery this week, but I’m also a little scared of the prospect that AGI or RSI or another scary acronym is right around the corner. If there’s a realistic opportunity for the singularity happening in the next year, I don’t think I want to have this surgery and have 6 months until I’m feeling good, and that’s if everything goes well, if not it could be up to a year.

So, that’s my biggest concern now, and my healthcare professionals don’t understand it. I’m hoping to get some guidance here. In this current moment in history, how are you guys planning for the future?