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#364 - Stuart Russell - The Terrifying Problem Of AI Control

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The Machine Stops

Author wrote a science fiction story called the machine stops, which i also recommend to your audience. It is quite amazing. People are obese because they never get out of their chairs. They don't know how the machine works any more. And then, of course, it stops running itself, things go south. Er. The technology might be saying, noooonono, but we are overriding it. But so the machines should say, we're going to stand back and let these humans tie their own shoe laces. Otherwis they'll never learn a. But we rit we're short sighted, lazy, greedy people, and we might say, no, you have to

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