I bailed after a few paragraphs when it became apparent that he is a True Believer™ who lacks any real understanding of the tech.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

https://www.thefai.org/posts/dean-ball-to-join-fai-as-senior...

> The Foundation for American Innovation (FAI) today announces the addition of Dean Ball as Senior Fellow. He will focus on artificial intelligence policy, as well as developing novel governance models for emerging technologies. Ball joins FAI after having served as Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

> Simply put and in at least the near term, agents will be LLMs configured in such a way that they can plan, reason, and execute intellectual labor.

"...Look, just configure them, alright? If they look like they plan and reason, that must mean they're already doing it. I'm an ideas guy, I can't get bogged down in engineering details."

It's hard to think of someone less qualified to opine on the direction of AI than this guy.