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#324 - Debating the Future of AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Uncanny and Quasi-Bleakness of the Future of Personal Assistants

CNN's John Sutter recently re-watch the film Her, which he hadn't seen since it came out 10 years ago. He says there is something a little uncanny and quasi-bleak around even the happy vision of having everyone siloed in their interaction with an AI. Even if you see any possibility here that even the best case scenario has something intrinsically alienating and troublesome about it,. Yeah. I think alienation is a real problem. Anybody in the developed West today is much better off by the fact that we have all these machines that do everything from harvesting corn to making shoes.

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