Gradient Failures: On the Oblique Consequences of Machine Intelligence

The catastrophe is not the explosion, but the implosion. We have been watching the wrong horizon.In Gradient Failures, philosopher Nox Vale argues that our standard menu of AI futures—the robot uprisings, the mass unemployment, the total surveillance state—is too legible to be useful. These scenarios assume a clear agent and a clear victim, but the most fundamental risks of machine intelligence ar...