{"id":14970,"date":"2025-07-21T23:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=14970"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:22:56","slug":"robot-plumbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/robot-plumbers\/","title":{"rendered":"robot plumbers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_14972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14972\" style=\"width: 1368px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ric109d4-R-Kidd-plumbing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ric109d4-R-Kidd-plumbing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1368\" height=\"1172\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ric109d4-R-Kidd-plumbing.jpg 1368w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ric109d4-R-Kidd-plumbing-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ric109d4-R-Kidd-plumbing-1024x877.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ric109d4-R-Kidd-plumbing-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ric109d4-R-Kidd-plumbing-1200x1028.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My opening lesson as a toiletologist. Pasting in below a link to a conversation between Ross Douthat (NYT) and Daniel Kokotajlo, former Open AI employee. I&#8217;d thought repair plumbing was less at risk from large language models than the practice of medicine. Daniel is causing me to rethink. Dan is pessimistic, he reputedly places the probability that A.I. will decimate humanity at 70 percent. Eek! Same as the chance your toilet will misbehave.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/righttowarn.ai\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wNJJ9QUabkA?si=7t8363Tc0fQ_x9bH\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan&#8217;s website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[124,4,15,120,118,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-124","category-agrarian","category-damage","category-repair","category-rosni","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14970"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14978,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions\/14978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}