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Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI
EconTalk
The Conscious Mind
Sainer: I found the New York Times transcript remarkably creepy and reading very much like a horror story science fiction script from a movie. The only reason it feels creepy is because I'm filling in as a human being, he says. Sainer: Some people strongly anthropomorphize these systems, and they think immediately that they're dealing with some sort of conscious mind. "It's just doing what it was told to do in a way that was not, as you say, algorithmically told to do it"
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