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#398: Replit, AI, and Bitcoin with Amjad Masad

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Is AI Going to Kill All of Us?

I'm somebody who has been paying attention to AI for the last year, but this whole ethics discussion and whether or not AI is going to kill us or not is still a bit fuzzy in my mind. The idea that you can extrapolate from emergent phenomena and AI to just say this thing is going to become human and wake up and get us all? It's just pure sci-fi. I don't think that's true. For them to posit that general intelligence can exist in a machine that doesn't have self-reflection is totally preposterous and ungrounded in anything. Most of the people that tend to get attracted to work on ethics and ethics related problems tend to

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