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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Risks & The Metacrisis

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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The Call to Action: AI Empowering Bad Actors

Every technology has certain affordances. I can use something like a hammer to be Jimmy Carter and build houses for the homeless with Habitat for Humanity, or I can use it as a weapon and kill people with it. Every technology is also combinatorial with other tech because what a hammer can do if I don't have a saw to cut the timber first is very different than what it can do if you have that. A tractor allows me to do things that I couldn't do without a tractor, just the show in terms of volume and types of work and various things.

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