Future Questions
Where AI is going, told through where we've been.
Short essays on superintelligence and the future of AI. Each starts with a true story, from Ramanujan's letters to the first rockets, and ends with a question worth arguing about. The first pieces are being written now.
Would we recognise superintelligence?
Ramanujan's letter, Hardy's doubt, and what it means for how we judge AI that thinks differently from us.
Learning can be compressed. Distance can't.
Robert Goddard, the 26-month Mars window, and what even a superintelligence can't rush.
The switch only your closest people know
ELIZA in 1966, social media algorithms today, and persuasion in the age of superintelligence.
Want to read them first? Follow Bharat Kattika on LinkedIn, where each question starts as a post.