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AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious
Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence. He believes AI could become a superintelligent entity that might threaten humanity.
The AI entrepreneur predicts “the defeat of most diseases, the growth in biological and cognitive freedom, the lifting of billions of people out of poverty to share in the new technologies, a renaissance of liberal democracy and human rights.” “We human beings are deeply, profoundly, inherently religious,” he said, adding that the impressive technologies behind AI might appeal to people in Silicon Valley who have already pushed aside “ordinary approaches to transcendence and meaning.” In 2023, as president of the Future of Life Institute, Tegmark helped spearhead an open letter calling for powerful AI labs to “immediately pause” the training of their systems.
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