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Will AI end everything? A guide to guessing | Katja Grace | EAG Bay Area 23

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The Disruption of Cognitive Labour

There is going to be huge amounts more thinking, just like the industrial production of thinking. With this new big ocean of thinking that could get produced, it's sort of unclear how it would be distributed. Maybe it'll be very unequal and go to people with bad goals. But a second thing that could go on is AI might bring about more agents in the process. They might also just have different values to humans because they might be kind of agentic. So I think each of these things on its own would be potentially disruptive to the world. And having a bunch of new people who are perhaps bad seems potentially disruptive.

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