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Rise of the Machines: how worried should we be about AI?

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The Problem With AI Systems

The problem with AI systems for me is this scalability so you get all the Teslas in the world and there is some kind of failure in the AI system that keeps learning from the environment. That is not an individual problem that you can solve with insurance it becomes a social problem. We need to preempt at least those very extreme risks. I think one thing that's really struck me about this is some of the reporting that's come out around the very human labor behind these systems. It'd be great if you could walk us through how the sort of work of data labeling because a lot of these systems have needed somebody sitting in a room somewhere saying yes to cat that's a cat that's

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