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The race to build AI that benefits humanity | Sam Altman

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The Power of Unintended Consequences

I have tremendous misgivings about letting an ai system start editing its own code while we're not paying attention. That is the start of something super powerful and potentially scary. And we would want to spend a lot of effort planning for, i man, the fact that a computer could an start editing its Own Code. I think it applies to society in a big way. You know, if you have very well meaning people, but they have this incentive to sort of, like maximis attention harvesting and profit forever through no one's ill intentions, that leads to quite undesirable outcome.

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