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The AI Revolution Could Be Bigger and Weirder Than We Can Imagine

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Doomsday Scenario

"It's wild. I've done a lot of technology reporting in my life, and I've never had so many like, I'm just like up at two in the morning staring at the ceiling being like, what are we doing?" he says. "This might be clean energy for the history of the planet or it might incinerate the world." He adds that open AIs whole reason for being is basically this is such a dangerous experiment. 'We want to do it with the most altruistic, benevolent values possible'

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