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The Role of AI in Social Change
My concerns are really quite broad. I recently have been studying Henry Adams book, the education of Henry Adams and Adams in the last brilliant chapters of his book lays out what he calls the dynamic theory of history. He set forth a hypothesis, which is that the amount of power or force at the disposal of human beings doubles or has doubled every decade since around 1800. So if we think about artificial intelligence, the rate of acceleration seems to be even greater in terms of the forces at our disposal than then Adams understood it to be. And one of my concerns is the way that AI is going to put loads of people out of work,. There are all sorts of jobs, computer programming, for example