Making People Smarter Is a Bad Thing

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I defy you to argue with me that making people smarter is a bad thing. The current technology cannot replace the, essentially the free will of humans. These are hard computer science problems, which i think we will get through. We have also focusing around the impact on jobs and employment in economics. I want an option with social media which says, i only want to see things that a human has actually communicated from themselves. You cannot run a democracy without some level of trustl let's take that piece here.

Sam Harris speaks with Eric Schmidt about the ways artificial intelligence is shifting the foundations of human knowledge and posing questions of existential risk.

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