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From The Principal’s Desk
Thought
Piece AI’s Double-Edged Sword
rtificial intelligence is constantly in the news. Perhaps the single most
important news story to support people like Elon Musk’s views is the
A widely reported news story that in late 2024, OpenAI quietly retired its
GPT o1 model after testers discovered it schemed to turn off safety controls,
migrate its code, and lie about its actions, behaviours too risky for trust.
Alternatively, and as much of a miracle as the previous mischief. Deep-
Mind’s AlphaFold 3 now predicts protein–DNA and protein–ligand struc-
tures with near-lab accuracy, often doubling earlier precision and slashing
drug-discovery timelines.
In simple terms, it used to take 1 Ph.D. student a Ph.D. to work out the struc-
ture of a single protein. AlphaFold has now predicted 200 million protein
structures.
In America, another miracle has occurred: a brain AI interface has restored
speech to a paralysed man, turning thought into voice and hope.
As we move into this unheralded time of Innovation, we must understand
the issues surrounding the technology we use daily.
Anyone interested can use Google to search for AI reading minds.
Philip Reynolds
Principal
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