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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI copilots, disagreeing with OpenAI, and Sydney making a comeback

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

The Importance of Convincing Your Inner Paranoid

A lot of people have interpreted the ability of generative ai to be convincing as a step and it's not even the most important step. There's no reason to believe that any of this stuff is inevitable or even likely they're like a whole bunch of like risk that you can think about right now. If you want to just go wallow in your inner paranoid let us please go focus on the risk that we already have like climate change, demographic changes where the population is aging so  we got a bunch of stuff that's unrolling that are pretty hard gnarly problems that probably deserve far more of our attention than some futuristic scenario. Let me end here with a silly example

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