We have more technology and more stuff than ever, yet it seems we've accomplished about zero in solving the human problems of greed and narcissism.

Ted Faro is alive today. We just aren't sure which of the FRANK'S he's at.

Horizon: Zero Dawn was so compelling (to me) because of the outright horrifying plausibility of a gassed up tech CEO, convinced that software safeties were infallible, unleashes the consequences for their hubris upon the whole of humanity.

Ted Faro was a horrible human being blinded by delusions of grandeur, but he wasn’t “evil” - he was even convinced he was saving humanity by ending the threat of both war and climate change.

I don’t see GPT itself as representing a new Faro Plague, but I do see a lot of wannabe Ted Faros making the decisions at the top.

If LLMs come even close to achieving their short-term potential, we’re unleashing a bigger destabilizing force on the world than the smartphone/social media combo - and the world of 202x seems blatantly incapable of absorbing that level of disruption.