The Importance of Understanding the Risks of Extension Risks

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I think that everybody involved wants the best outcomes for everyone. I think there are very, very few people who don't want that and they tend to be very vocally saying they don’t want that. And so we'll always have these tribal as it were issues where we go back and forth on them. We're able to have this kind of weird discussion where we have like economically very good views actually on both sides of the discussion.

The future of AI keeps Zvi Mowshowitz up at night. He also wonders why so many smart people seem to think that AI is more likely to save humanity than destroy it. Listen as Mowshowitz talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the current state of AI, the pace of AI's development, and where--unless we take serious action--the technology is likely to end up (and that end is not pretty). They also discuss Mowshowitz's theory that the shallowness of the AI extinction-risk discourse results from the assumption that you have to be either pro-technological progress or against it.