Do you think there's any tribalism involved in these early days? I mean, regardless of which side one is on in these issues, and people ask me all the time, so where do you come down? "I don't really have to... I'm a little worried, a little worried that I was a year ago, but I'm not scared," he says.
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.