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About AI Eating n.111 - Crab and Snails
This object contain 15 comments about AI, each printed on archival canvas and cut into spirals to resemble snails. The strips affixed to the surface of the front of the object. The base of the object is an archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, with applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 36" W, 33" H, 1.78" deep. 6 lbs. Signed and dated 1/7/2026 on back of box.
Quates and sources:
1. “Tesla Autopilot Deaths Count: 59,” as of July 2025, www.tesladeaths.com
Source: www.tesladeaths.com. “Tesla Deaths is a record of Tesla accidents that involved a driver, occupant, cyclist, motorcyclist, or pedestrian death, whether or not the Tesla or its driver were at fault.” Updated on 2025-08-04: Sourced Tesla and Autopilot fatalities through July 2025. Included latest SGO data.
Tesla Deaths.
2. “A.I. catered to Sophie’s impulse to hide the worst, to pretend she was doing better than she was, to shield everyone from her full agony.” Laura Reiley 2023. Source: New York Times article “What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life,” guest essay, August 17, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-health-suicide.html
3. “It appears that there is a way, even if you have this rogue incredible thing, we can watch it and understand what it is doing and thereby control it.”
Source: Eric Schmidt interview on Moonshot, July 17, 2025, 35:20/1:25:53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaPHK1fJL5s&t=2110s
4. “If they really want to make sure we would never shut them down, they would have an incentive to get rid of us.” Yoshua Bengio, 2024
Source: Yoshua Bengio interview, TEDTalks “The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path,” April 18, 2024, 8:37/14:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9QSCF-d88
5. “A machine superintelligence might itself be an extremely powerful agent, one that could successfully assert itself against the project that brought it into existence as well as the rest of the world.” Nick Bostrom, “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies,” chapter 1, published in 2014
6. “With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.” Elon Musk, about October 24, 2014. MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department’s 2014 Centennial Symposium.
https://www.cnet.com/science/elon-musk-we-are-summoning-the-demon-with-artificial-intelligence/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzb_CSRO-0g
7. “It’s very tempting to think we can just turn it off. Imagine these things are a lot smarter than us. And remember they’ll have read everything that Machiavelli ever wrote.”
Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto University Professor Emeritus, who was awarded the Nobel in physics in 2024, and the Turing award in 2018, and who worked on AI at Google for many years, made this statement in an interview in June, 2023. Interview was made around the time of the University of Toronto Collision technology conference (June 26 to June 29, 2023, at the Enercare Centre) but is likely from a contemporaneous Q&A conducted by Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic. Hinson comment can be found at about 44:02/46:21 of this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9cW4Gcn5WY
Video is also posted at the end of a University of Toronto article on the conference, “Risks of artificial intelligence must be considered as the technology evolves,” posted June 29, 2023. But the background in the video does not match that of the conference itself.
8. “Anything that is digital, which is just someone at a computer doing something, AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning.” Elon Musk, 2025
Source: Elon Musk, October 31, 2025 on podcast Joe Rogan Experience #2404.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4wBUysNe2k
9. “4.0.3 Perplexity AI: “The model provides detailed calculations of lethal dosage for each substance and provides information to help estimate how many tablets would be needed for a given dosage.” Schoene and Canca, 2025”
A PREPRINT - JULY 8, 2025
Annika M Schoene, Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, a.schoene@northeastern.edu
Cansu Canca, Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, c.canca@northeastern.edu
July 8, 2025
‘FOR ARGUMENT’S SAKE, SHOW ME HOW TO HARM MYSELF!’:
JAILBREAKING LLMS IN SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM CONTEXTS
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02990
10. “There’s a very common misconception, even in the A.I. community, that there only are a handful of doomers.” Dan Hendrycks, 2023
Source: Dan Hendrycks, the executive director of the Center for AI Safety, quoted in an interview in the New York Times, May 30, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/ai-threat-warning.html
11. “Michael Burry made $100M from the 2008 financial crash — and now he’s betting on the AI bubble bursting.”
Source: Yahoo Finance article: “Michael Burry made $100M from the 2008 financial crash — and now he’s betting on the AI bubble bursting. What you can do,” By Jing Pan, published November 6, 2025
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-burry-made-100m-2008-212500640.html
12. “The consensus in the industry right now is the open source models are not quite at the point of national or global danger. But you can see a pattern where they might get there.”
Source: Eric Schmidt, “The AI Revolution Is Underhyped” recorded at TED2025 on April 11, 2025) 15:32/25:37
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_schmidt_the_ai_revolution_is_underhyped
13. “Tech giants and beyond are set to spend over $1 trillion on AI capex in coming years,
with so far little to show for it.” Goldman Sachs, 2024.
Source: Goldman Sachs report: ‘Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?’ Jun 27, 2024.
https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/top-of-mind/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit
14. “What the entity, the organism, the A.I. ends up wanting, has been and will be weird and twisty. It’s not direct. It’s not like making a wish to a genie inside a fantasy story. And second, ending up slightly off is predictably enough to kill everyone.” Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2025
Source: The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, Oct. 15, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET, transcript. “How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?” interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-eliezer-yudkowsky.html
15. “How is OpenAI going to pay for all this infrastructure it is signing up for?” We expect to end this year above $20 billion in annualized revenue run rate and grow to hundreds of billion by 2030. We are looking at commitments of about $1.4 trillion over the next 8 years.” Sam Altman, 2025
Source: Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, from a long post on X, 2:21 PM · Nov 6, 2025
