As an economist in the spirit of FA Hayek, I believe there were a lot of problems in the world where it's the problem is that we don't have enough data. The problem is we don't fully understand the complexity of the interactions and the relationships that human beings have. Adam Smith so called Man of System and the Theory of Moral Sentiments person who thinks that he can move the pieces of society around like pieces on a chessboard because he thinks they understand their motion but in fact they have a motion on their own. And most of the interesting problems are as I quote Thomas all the time: No solutions only trade offs. Chet some AI of the future will not solve
The future of AI keeps Zvi Mowshowitz up at night. He also wonders why so many smart people seem to think that AI is more likely to save humanity than destroy it. Listen as Mowshowitz talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the current state of AI, the pace of AI's development, and where--unless we take serious action--the technology is likely to end up (and that end is not pretty). They also discuss Mowshowitz's theory that the shallowness of the AI extinction-risk discourse results from the assumption that you have to be either pro-technological progress or against it.