The dialogue progress concept is that, you know, we use a society collectively make this decision on whether or not we're going to encourage and allow in various senses. And over the years we've moved from the United States that was very much on the you go out there and there's an open field and you do more or less whatever you want to do as long as you don't harm someone else’s property. To a world in which vast majority of the economic system require detailed permissions they're subject to very detailed regulations that make it very very hard to innovate and improve. I strongly agree with Andreessen and Cowan and many andI think you and many other people. This is
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.