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#81 Classic episode - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments

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Is the Economic Growth Rate a Proximity?

The AI systems we have are the more that if they're directed appropriately could sort of increase GDP. Paul Cristiano has sometimes tried to use the economic growth rate as sort of a proxy well obviously this isn't doesn't exactly capture what we care about but there's some sort of intuition, he says.

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