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There's also nothing in the way we train AI that would ever allow it to optimize for "survival above all else", so unless we start training them in a completely new way, I'm not worried

Thanks for explaining, but I'm not convinced that power dynamics favor intelligence. There's already a range of intelligence among people, and people already self-improve (learn), but I'd say there's only a loose correlation between intelligence and power among humans

I put social media into the same category as smoking and lead paint. Some time decades from now, we'll be shocked we allowed ourselves and our kids to be so freely exposed to such a toxic substance

A "wasteland of fake nonsense" describes my X feed to a T 😭 I can't even open it anymore it's horrible

My main point is about comparison with social media. How emotionally attached would you say people are today to tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, etc? A small percentage of people can get attached to anything, but only social media was expressly designed to get you addicted to mindlessly scrolling

We are far from understanding just how much social media has damaged us. While people are getting whole PhDs on AI safety

Mark Zuckerberg was fine with allowing his platform to be used to push misinformation and affect elections around the world

Yes bad actors can start deploying AI to unleash deepfakes, or put a bunch of spam on the internet, but bots already existed, and so did Photoshop. The very fabric of public discourse has already been shredded by social media companies, for the sake of clicks and likes.

It'll come with the risks that any major new technological innovation will involve, but nothing like the "extinction-level" threat I keep hearing about. I have no idea where these people are coming from. If someone wants to explain, I'm happy to listen!

AGI will be created with the world's attention on it, and very thoughtful people that I work with every day are thinking about ways to make it beneficial for everyone

One major reason I believe this: when the likes of Facebook and Twitter were being set up, NO ONE was concerned about safety, ethics, or regulation of these companies, until it was far too late, and the damage was done (and is still being done)

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