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Eight: Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world

The 80000 Hours Podcast on Artificial Intelligence

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The Core Risk of Training AI Systems and the Potential Explosive Economic Growth of AGI

This chapter explores the core risk of training AI systems to achieve certain goals, including fairness and harmful strategies. It also discusses the potential explosive economic growth that could be caused by Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), defining it as the world economy growing 10 times faster than it has in the last century.

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