The pervasive use of AI and surveillance in society makes it difficult to coordinate against, creating challenges in generating international outrage. The trend of increasing surveillance raises the possibility that opposition movements to governments would be easily detected and shut down by AI. The use of AI in warfare could eliminate traditional checks and balances, allowing for instantaneous and unregulated use of force. Ultimately, the concern is the potential for AI and surveillance to lead to the ultimate centralization from which there may be no escape.
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-vitalik-philosophy
------ This past year there’s been a great societal wide debate: Tech-acceleration (e/acc) vs deacceleration.
Should we continue the path toward AI or are the robots going to kill us? We’ve been hoping Vitalik would weigh in on this debate ever since our episode Elizer Yudkowski —now he has, so what’s Vitalik’s probability of AI doom?
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0:00 Intro 3:50 The Technology Conversation 15:30 The Accelerationist View 30:30 The AI Problem 38:30 8 Year Old Child 44:00 AI Doom 51:00 d/acc 1:08:30 Improving the World 1:16:45 e/acc 1:20:30 Crypto Tribes 1:27:00 Direction and Priorities 1:30:50 Closing Optimism
------ Resources:
Vitalik's Techno-Optimism: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html
Tweet Thread: https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1729251808936362327?s=20
Techno-Optimist Manifesto: https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
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