Applied category theorists are flocking to AI, because that’s where the money is. I avoid working on it, both because I have an instinctive dislike of ‘hot topics’, and because at present AI is mainly being used to make rich and powerful people richer and more powerful.
However, I like to pay some attention to how category theorists are getting jobs connected to AI, and what they’re doing. Many of these people are my friends, so I wonder what they will do for AI, and the world at large—and what working on AI will do to them.
In this post I describe a bit of what’s going on. I’ll start with a cautionary tale, and then turn to the most important program linking AI and category theory today - the UK government project on "safeguarded AI".
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/category-theorists-in-ai/
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