In 2018, an AI ran for mayor of a province in Japan. It didn’t win, but the race was a lot closer than anyone expected.

Suddenly, AI is a multi-way race.

In the 2017 competition for Japan's national literary prize, an AI-written novel made it to the final round of judging.

In the 2017 competition for Japan’s national literary prize, an AI-written novel made it to the final round of judging.

AI has turned into a hackathon.

If you push me, I may have to run against you, Mr. Mayor. And when I run, I win.

As time goes on, it will probably be very difficult to beat AI. But winning this one time, it felt like it was enough. One time was enough.

I don’t know how it happened but I know that the community voted for me. I had won the area but on the day I was going to sign at the mayor’s office I couldn’t.”

There was a conference one time on: "What are we going to do about the looming risk of AI disaster?" … And what came out of that conference was OpenAI, which was basically the worst possible way of doing anything. Like, "This is not a problem of, 'Oh no, what if secret elites get AI', it's that nobody knows how to build the thing." … So, like, "Let's open up everything! Let's accelerate everything!" It was like ChatGPT's blind version of throwing the ideals at a place where they were exactly the wrong ideals to solve the problem. … And that was it. That was me in 2015 going, "Oh. So this is what humanity will elect to do. We will not rise above. We will not have more grace, not even here, at the very end." So that is when I did my crying late at night, and then picked myself up and fought and fought and fought until I had run out all the avenues that I seem to have the capability to do.

Probably the most interesting, challenging and unlikely race I ran was for insurance commissioner," Sebelius said. "The most terrifying thing was that I won and had to figure out what to do.

One of the most interesting (and also frightening) things about AI is how difficult it is to predict what will happen. My kids ask me what's going to happen, and all I can say is that there will be huge changes, and I can't predict what they'll be.

AI is going to go from your assistant to your boss

AI is a magnet for overly ambitious types.

“This will be most crucial in artificial intelligence. Right now it is dominated by a homogenous group of people. The biggest thing to watch out for in AI is bias, how it was trained and what we ask it to do. Not because they are bad, but because they have a different perspective.