How to Influence Public Policy With AI

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I think writing is how you were, how I learned to think about things is how I understand things. And my guess is it's actually better than it used to be. We just like have higher standards now. We see the possibility of being able to do better but that, you know, common discourse has always in some sense been thus.

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.