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Can effective altruism be redeemed?
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is There a Fear That AI Will Inadvertently Design a Single Minded Optimizing Machine?
In EA circles, there's this fear that will inadvertently design AI that is a single minded optimizing machine and doing whatever it takes to achieve a goal. I would just say, hey, like humans being as powerful as we are has been a little bit of rough news for other animals. And I think we should worry about AI being the same with respect to us. You do not need some kind of weird God in a box to have a problem with AI.
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