The Politics of Education

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I think I'm a little uncomfortable with the broadness of buoy progress, EA progress. A lot of people say yes, and they don't know how much we spend on education. They've never looked at a study of whether it's effective. And now in one sense, it's just expressive voting. But most of them do mean more. More is always better than less of education.

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.