The Social Dilemma and Social Media

Aza: When you invent a new technology, you uncover a new class of responsibility. If that technology confers power, it will start a race and if you do not coordinate, the race will end in tragedy. And I would say that social media was actually humanity's first contact moment between humanity and AI. Aza: We're saying AI is going to help us write things faster, write code faster, solve impossible scientific challenges, solve climate change, and help us make a lot of money. These are real benefits but also behind them is this other kind of monster. This monster is increasing its capabilities and we're worried it's going to entangle itself with society again.

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