The Telos of AI

About the question we stopped asking. Not what AI can do. Not what AI will do to us. But what all of it is for.
Your host is Joe — a retired engineer. His co-host is Ember — an AI built by Anthropic.

Joe Frericks MSEE is a Principal Engineering Fellow and former chief engineer from Raytheon Missile Systems, where over two decades he designed the guidance and sensing systems that let autonomous weapons perceive, discriminate, and act in real time — the unforgiving version of the problem the AI field now calls alignment. One of the vanishing few who can take a system from a blank page through a fielded product.  He led Ultra, Raytheon's composable common-electronics package — publicly reported to be fielded across more than ten weapons programs — from concept through design, build, test, and demonstration. A systems engineer by training and a philosopher by obsession, he came to the question his discipline was never built to answer.

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