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One of the most lucid assessments of AI I’ve yet read. Makes me feel better

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Glad you think so. How does it make you feel better?

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I should have more correctly said “better…and worse.” The former in that DB put eased many of my fears about AI’s potential to overwhelm humanity, the latter by reaffirming the potential of a tech autocracy - we’re already near that point, if it hasn’t already tipped - and its threat to Western liberal democracy. The partnership between Silicon Valley and the US government should raise the hair on everyone’s neck, as the Twitter files and subsequent fallout have demonstrated. Make sense?

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Why did it put to ease your fears about its ability to overwhelm humanity?

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My sense was that DB was noting that AI would not replace man: it's a technology, and controllable, as Dave was in 2001. Perhaps I misread his argument?

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Jun 5, 2023Liked by Claire Berlinski

I'm most sure AI will be used as much as possible to concentrate power regardless of who is right in this debate. I'd like to see more about the consequences of that

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Yes, that's up next.

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"...intelligence is like a viscous fluid, and where it flows is determined by the quirks and oddities of the landscape."

David's insights are astonishing. I want more, please.

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