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AI: A Future for Humans

The Reith Lectures

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The Machine Stops, by E. M. Forster

Having this kind of humility, knowing that it doesn't know all our preferences, and asking before doing something rash is going to be an economic necessity for human facing applications of a i. We created the machine to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will. It has blurred every human relation. It has paralyzed our bodies and our wills. The first lesson of forster's story is that as we gradually hando the management of our civilization to machines, we lose the ability to do it ourselves. But there's perhaps an even more important lesson, what cuno feels when he escapes the safe confines of the machine, reaches the uninhabitable surface and sees the hills of w

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