AI is much more powerful than any other technology we have built to date. If it was just like a toaster, it couldn't quote, make everything we care about better. How do you ensure that GPT-7 doesn't teach a terrorist how to synthesize and transport a few dozen new deadly infectious diseases? Even if you had such a technique, I'm sure they exist in principle, otherwise alignment would be hopeless. The AI cat is obviously already out of the bag. You can learn how to build AI from thousands of free online courses, books, papers, and videos. And there are outstanding open source implementations proliferating by the day. It will be everywhere.
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