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Why Do People Who Think AI Could Kill Us All Still Work on AI?
The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
The Benefits of Artificial Intelligence
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Many technologists expect AGI to relatively quickly become far smarter than the smartest human, providing corresponding technological advances. It's not uncommon for techies to claim in public that AGI might allow for a cure for cancer, and then admit that what they're really excited about is a potential cure for aging. Hinton himself says he used to paraphrase Oppenheimer's above statement when asked how he could work on a technology so potentially dangerous.
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