The Problems With AI's Existential Risk

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If we take seriously, in other words, the idea that AI's are truly intelligent, then we can easily imagine making AI's that are more intelligent than human beings. I think this is something where we should be applying some thought process to this, maybe at a more calm, deliberative level than we've done so far. And no, that kind of argument doesn't work to stop people from opening their jars of pasta sauce.

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