The Importance of a Model for AI

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Tyler Cowan says AI is a threat to our way of life and that we should be worried about it. John Sutter: You haven't told us even a plausible story that allow us to test whether this is really something to be afraid of. So you're willing to destroy potentially our current way of life to prevent something that you can't specify, he said. "It's not the right is world isn't fair I have to try and convince people on their own terms"

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.