The Biggest Event in Human History
The Reith Lectures
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Are You a Billy Nomads in Silican Valley?
One option might be to ban a i altogether, just as butler's anti machinists in erewon banned all mechanical devices after a terrible civil war. But then i imagine all those corporations and countries with their eyes on that ten quadrillion pound prize. And i think, good luck with that. The right answer is that if making a i better and better makes the problem worse and worse, then we've got the whole thing wrong. We think we want machines that achieve the objectives we give them, but actually we want something else. Later in the series, i'll explain what that new form of ai might be - which will be provably beneficial to the human race
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