#324 - Debating the Future of AI
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Theoretical Objection to AI Persuasion
I mean, we're now going to be talking to something that has the totality of human knowledge and superstition and political tribalism and everything at its fingertips. And it's thinking a million times faster than we are in every minute. It just seems very obvious to me that actually smart people have a very difficult time convincing less smart people to do things. If anything, less smart people are often repelled by smart people and they very much don't want to do what they're told. But even if you were going to limit your concern to what AI could persuade people to do, right, that opens the door to just a vastness of misbehavior That is hard to see how to limit
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