The Dangers and Fears of the Future

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I am an optimist about those levels of risks on this very similar views in many ways to people like Cohen and Andre some. And I think that, you know, we have differences in details of models, but like what we're seeing now I think is unabashedly good. Bringing more intelligence bringing more optimization power giving humans more abilities and letting loose has generally been the greatest boon to humanity.

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.