What makes an AI system autonomous in the real world: the ability to act, or the judgment to know when it should not?
Questions
Questions I do not have neat answers to, but keep thinking and reading about.
Technology and institutions
How can humans and machines make better decisions, understand why those decisions were made, and learn systematically from their outcomes?
How can AI become part of existing behaviour without becoming another destination people have to remember?
Which parts of a task should disappear, and which parts do people still want to experience and control?
What belongs on-device in a small model, and what deserves the cost and depth of a larger one?
How do we build useful personalization without making people feel watched?
How do we make AI a native part of Nigerian healthcare, rather than a layer imported from somewhere else?
Intelligence and reasoning
What does it actually mean for a machine to reason, rather than recognize and reproduce patterns?
What are the fundamental limitations of current LLM architectures, and which breakthroughs might overcome them?
How can AI systems learn continuously from experience without forgetting what they already know?
What can neuroscience and cognitive science teach us about building better artificial intelligence?
Science and engineering
What important problems in the physical world have become solvable because of advances in computation and AI?
Why do some remarkable technological breakthroughs never become practical or widely adopted?
People and society
Why do the same economic systems produce different outcomes when applied to different people, communities, and cultures?
How do you enter the tightly connected circles where technology, capital, and influence move?
What do exceptional people know, do, or see that most other people do not?
How much of a life is determined by the family, country, and circumstances someone happens to be born into?
How do you remain self-reliant while becoming better at asking for help?
Life and human potential
How much can someone deliberately improve their ability to reason, learn, and solve difficult problems?
How do you balance ambition with living a meaningful life?
What makes some people identify important problems that everyone else overlooks?