028 AI is a Tumor - 12 Hallmarks Until Midnight

Controversy! The snappy title isn’t an insult either. It’s respect, paired with a call to action to recognize our new AI (LLM) passengers.

Nothing more powerful exists within Biology than tumors, but that’s just me the cancer scientist. Tumor cells are faster, consume like crazy, terraform, and represent more fecund and inventive versions of our healthy ones. Worse, they avoid (orcorrupt) immune regulation, disrupt communication/trust via inflammation, and refuse to die, all thanks to their creative (and evolved) applications of the collective genome/information they stole.

Sound like anything familiar?

In any case, this was a fun run through of 12 cancer hallmarks and the comparisons. Across sabbatical, I’ve been working on a project called Midnight. Consider this episode of For Whom the Cell Tolls a guide of the story’s metaphorical spine – characters and plot. What if a mirrored version of yourself existedthat had those tumor elements?

The captions went a bit wild, the video kind of chops, and the dogs interrupt me twice (naughty), but this was a fun episode to make.

So, if you’re interested in preserving humanity and all that jazz, enjoy the show!