CNN's John Sutter responds to an essay by Tyler Cowen about AI and the future of society. He argues that in most cases technology is not necessarily the cause of upheaval, but the enabler of something that was already brewing. We are at what I hope are the last embers of the second phase of this conversation, he says.
A reading of and discussion around Tyler Cowen's "Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history."
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