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Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

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The Luddites' Anti-Technology Group

We've never made machines that are smarter than human beings. We just don't know how we'll relate to something like that, and what it will mean for us if and when we do it. Eric Hoel: When you live on a planet next to things that are far vastly smarter than you or anyone else they might just build a parking lot over us and we will never ever know why.

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