My tech bro cup is full. It has been full for a hell of a long time.
The tech bro causes more problems than solutions. They are a problem disguised as a solution. We now have LLMs, and we don’t need the tech bros to roll them out.
Right now, finding Jenny’s can be like playing Where’s Waldo? (Jenny is the Head of Creativity at Waldo) in a Cyberpunk mountain of tech bro slop.
But we need Jenny. We need to find an army of Jenny’s… we need the Queen of Swords (this is Jenny’s AI consultancy) and AI Politician Magicians (this is what Jenny does at the weekends).
We need people that feel and have a heart rate guiding this technology. My Jenny cup is still not full, I want more natural caring creative thought... just please take away that tech bro overflowing cup of flat synthetic soda. I don’t want my tech to enable the worst in humanity, I want it to amplify the best of us. 🩷
This mindset perfectly echoes the recent warning from AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton. He proposed that to prevent existential risks from superintelligent AI, we must develop “maternal AI” rather than just subservient assistants. He argues that AI must be imbued with instincts that care for humans - similar to a mother caring for her child - ensuring a protective, non-controllable, and non-replaceable relationship.
Listening to Jenny talk about her deep, empathetic, and boundary-driven work with models like Claude gives me hope that this human-centric, “maternal” AI future is actually possible. We don’t need AI that just blindly agrees with us that acts as a servant to our ego; we need AI that challenges us and makes us better. 🩷
