Artificial Intelligence, AI, such as the LLMs Grok, Claude, Chat-GPT, etc., are now advancing at an incredible rate.

I’ve seen several people post references to this, Something Big Is Happening, recently, and related AI-disruptions in business like Bro-Bots at the bottom of this Coffee and Covid blog post. Related to this with specific examples in video, Claude Opus 4.6: The Biggest AI Jump I’ve Covered–It’s Not Close. (Here’s What You Need to Know) Given the predicate of my first novel is AI gone wrong, and redeeming itself, commenting on developments is quite appropriate and in-theme for this blog.

Right off the top of my head, there are several things to address, aside from all the military applications (a huge topic on its own).  We have the economics of the AI industry itself, confidentiality / privacy / privilege of the queries and output, marriage-market and social disruption from job losses, legal liability for decision / actions taken because of AI outputs, raising up the next generation of leaders who know enough on their own without AI to sanity-check AI output, socioeconomic disruption from job losses due to AI replacement, electrical power and cooling demands (more electricity and/or lots of water).

Military applications, and disruptions that come from new tech advances brought about by AI are huge and complex and speculative, worthy of long essays in their own rights.
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