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Will AI destroy civilization in the near future? (with Connor Leahy)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

How to Simplify Thinking on AI Threats

CNN's John Sutter offers a few answers to the question of whether AI can take over the world. He says most people who say this don't actually mean it, they're just crying out for help or attention. The practical answer is that psychopaths exist and we have prisons for them; if someone thinks our kids should be killed, then that's pretty commonly accepted as bad: There's no further thinking here necessary. But I expect most of these people wouldn't kill their children so those that would are put into prisons.

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