In the grand scale of human history, the creation of AI is as significant as the agricultural revolution. Forcing your perspective on AI through the current trust and safety wars is like the proto-agriculturalists killing each other over whether they dedicated their first harvest to the tree spirit or the fire deity. Every day there is some shocking new headline about how 42% of CEOs think that AI could end the world within 5 to 10 yearsor take your pick. There is always something like that in the news now. And I think it's reasonable to ask if those headlines are driven by the media establishment thinking that this is an important discourse, which in many cases it will have been.
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