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Silicon Valley stifled the AI doom movement in 2024


For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the human race. But

To sum up the warnings issued in 2023: Elon Musk and more than 1,000 technologists and scientists called for a pause on AI development, asking the world to prepare for the technology’s profound risks. In his conclusion, Andreessen gave a convenient solution to our AI fears: move fast and break things – basically the same ideology that has defined every other 21st century technology (and their attendant problems). Republicans in Washington have several AI-related priorities that outrank AI doom today, according to Dean Ball, an AI-focused research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center.

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