The Rise of Restriction

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I think that the people who do this you know often are well meeting sometimes they're trying to protect their rent seeking or what they would their particular means of way of life. But collectively if we all loosen the reins it would help almost all of us and it would over time the results would compact right. We have been very fortunate that we haven't had a regime this tight in this sense until very recently. If we kept tightening it there's the risk that we would lose our ability to do things more and more, he says.

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.