{"id":35767,"date":"2026-10-12T07:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35767"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:07:08","slug":"forget-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/12\/forget-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget AI; it&#8217;s programmed by humans and even if Elon Musk makes 10,000 Tesla robots annually (I forget where I saw the headline, so the number might be off).<\/p>\n<p>But this gives me the willies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/engineers-gave-a-mushroom-a-robot-body-and-let-it-run-wild\" target=\"_new\">Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nobody knows what sleeping mushrooms dream of when their vast mycelial networks flicker and pulse with electrochemical responses akin to those of our own brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>But given a chance, what might this web of impulses do if granted a moment of freedom?<\/p>\n<p>An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Cornell University in the US and the University of Florence in Italy took steps to find out, putting a culture of the edible mushroom species Pleurotus eryngii (also known as the king oyster mushroom) in control of a pair of vehicles, which can twitch and roll across a flat surface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have read enough Lovecraft and science headlines to know that fungi (or just a mastermind, single worldwide organism) are not human, and giving them the ability to move about in the physical world is a bad, bad idea.  I already suspect, sometimes, that they (it) are (is) farming us and all of nature for their (its) own ends.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via Ed Driscoll at <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/828669\/\" target=\"_new\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget AI; it&#8217;s programmed by humans and even if Elon Musk makes 10,000 Tesla robots annually (I forget where I saw the headline, so the number might be off). But this gives me the willies: Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild Nobody knows what sleeping mushrooms dream of when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35768,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35767\/revisions\/35768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}