I'm starting an book club called AI Book Club: A Human in the Loop. As you might expect, the book club involves reading and discussing books about AI on a regular basis. The book club will meet online, currently planned for the third Sunday of each month at 10 am Pacific Time (Seattle's time zone). There are some async chat options through Slack as well, and we'll record the meetings. Check it out at AI Book Club: A Human in the Loop. If you've been looking to read more (or get back into reading) while also increasing your understanding of AI, this club could be a good fit.

Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, by Ben Goldfarb, is a richly descriptive work of investigative journalism exploring the topic of road ecology, which looks at how roads impact their surrounding environment. More specifically, road ecology is "'the study of how 'life change[s] for plants and animals with a road and traffic nearby'" (6).

While AGI refers to performing tasks at a human level, superintelligence refers to performing tasks that exceed human capabilities. If tech writers want to survive the AI apocalypse, we'll have to go beyond mere AGI levels of competence and tread water within the superintelligent space.

Reason being, AI will eventually replace most of what we do, making it such that when AGI is reached, job displacement for tech writers will be more common because AGI will perform the same tasks, only cheaper. But the likelihood of AGI progressing to Superintelligence seems less likely to me (in the same way that moving from assisted driving to fully autonomous driving is so much harder than anyone anticipated). Striving for superintelligent docs seems like the most logical counter-move against AI's encroachment on tech writer territory.