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If you think I usually lead Startups Weekly with my own column, then you’re right. But Devin’s piece taking a stand against the pseudanthropy of AI is a must-read this week. He proposes a new set of rules for AIs to follow to preserve our humanity:
- AI must rhyme.
- AI may not present a face or identity.
- AI cannot “feel” or “think.”
- AI-derived figures, decisions and answers must be marked ‘⸫’ .
- AI must not make life or death decisions.
- AI imagery must have a corner clipped.
Yes, these suggestions can’t realistically be implemented, but read the article anyway; it goes deep about some of the interesting challenges we are facing as AIs get more mature and ubiquitous.
Now that we’ve had our philosophy lesson, let’s see what else is happening in the Right Honorable Royal Kingdom of Startups.
Image Credits: Bird
The turmoil of startups continues.
Bird, the once high-flying electric scooter company, has crash-landed into bankruptcy. After a wild ride from a $2 billion valuation to a financial face-plant, this former micromobility poster child is now restructuring its finances faster than one of its scooters racing downhill with a tailwind. Now they’re banking on Chapter 11 to keep their wheels spinning, but only after laying off some feathers and hoping someone finds enough value in their assets to buy them out. The irony? Their Canadian and European operations are still scooting along as if nothing happened.
There was definitely no coincidence that I picked Bird as the example for the ‘Undertanding the levers in your business’ post I wrote back in 2018 . . .
Even more stories to keep y’all interested:
Back to startups: Eric Wu, the co-founder of Opendoor, is ditching his executive chair for a bean bag in the startup world again. After a decade of playing real estate Tetris, Wu’s ready to go back to building things from scratch, amid the toughest real estate market in more than 40 years.
Feeling safer yet?: In a move that’s less surprising than finding out your password is still “password123,” Okta has snapped up security firm Spera for a cool $100 million-ish. The latter is like a cybersecurity Sherlock Holmes, sniffing out digital weaknesses before they become full-blown disasters.
The media monitoring maestro Meltwater just got a $65 million pat on the back from Verdane.