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How will AI change the world? | George Zaidan and Stuart Russell

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Is There Control Over the AI System?

When you build machines that believe with certainty that they have the objective. That's when you get this sort of psychopathic behavior and I think you see the same thing in humans. What happens when general purpose AI hits the real economy? How do things change? Can we adapt? This is a very old point. Aristotle actually has a passage where he says, look, if we had fully automated weaving machines on lecturers ... then we wouldn't need any workers"

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