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The AI Revolution Could Be Bigger and Weirder Than We Can Imagine

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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Is Facebook a Mind Control Machine?

I think it's much more likely that we see these small crises of misalignment than that we suddenly wake up in a world where half the population has died in the last 12 hours because of some catastrophic misalignment. A helpful way to think about this is like a technology as simple as Facebook, right? It was an accelerant for a lot of social conditions based around that left unguard railed and unchecked helped lead to terrible awful things across the world. On the more prosaic side, and this is maybe what we can, can end. I think it's a very interesting question of what kind of jobs can these tools do effectively? I wonder, do you think chat G

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