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Richard Dawkins: God, Truth & Death

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The Dangers of AI Getting Out of Hand

I'm alive to the possibility that there are grave dangers in something getting out of hand, getting out of control. It would take about two seconds for a human to do it, a little alone for AI to do it. We could probably ask it to write an essay on evolution in the style of William Shakespeare and it would produce a pretty good pastiche of Shakespeare's style. I need to read some of the people who are seriously worried about it, whom I respect. So the argument about AI at least seems to be that it's a baby now and it's getting the wives of the people wrong,. But eventually, it could grow up to be like a Hitler or whatever.

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