The Divide in the AI Community

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The idea that these chat bots are going to sort of take over the world and kill us all is ridiculous. Thinking that somehow we're smart enough to build a system to be super intelligent and not smart enough to design good objectives so that you behave properly, I think is a very, very strong assumption,. A very low probability. So even within that group of three people, there is a divide among AI experts.

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