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The Promise and Peril of AI

After Hours

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What Is the Core Use of the Technology?

Whenever a new piece of technology comes out, we jump to this point of how similar is it to us? So humans are just really self-obsessed. And that's in some sense particularly funny because irrespective of what the answer is, if you think it's very far away from being human, we're alarmed. It strikes me as maybe something that is first and foremost just fascinated by the capability of the technology. But not really thinking through the core uses of what it will be able to do. I predict that that's actually the core use. If we don't have to do dull things, we can do more interesting things.

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