The Unstoppability of Intelligence

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Intelligence is almost, by definition, the most valuable thing on earth. Rimistes: The moment we get something that's general, it's going to be superhuman. Many of these systems are built in such a way as to be black boxes - they may remain opaque if not transparent. "I'm actually much more focused on what it like to be human when you have specialized systems around"

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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