One of the biggest misconceptions about AI is that it is just a tool. A knife is a tool that cannot decide whether to chop salad or commit murder, whereas AI can make its own decisions without human involvement. From @nytimes piece “Where Is AI Taking Us?” – read the whole thing: bit.ly/NYT-YNH

If AI is an agent, then the real question is not whether it makes decisions, but who designs the objective functions shaping those decisions. Agency without alignment becomes evolution without biology. The knife analogy fails not because AI has intention, but because it operates within goal landscapes we barely understand.