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Why does technology create new problems for each one it solves? | Technology is tricky. That’s why we need to think more carefully about risks and follow a more cautious approach
Technology is tricky. That’s why we need to think more carefully about risks and follow a more cautious approach
Exploring an admittedly optimistic scenario, he suggests that we might in a few decades eliminate essentially all diseases, spread beneficial economic growth across nations, even greatly improve humans’ collective ability to form consensus on issues of fundamental social importance. But Amodei also accepts that there’s plenty of room for things to go wrong – AI may not achieve any of these positives, and could instead radically exacerbate inequality, or provide a new class of autocrats with unprecedented powers of surveillance and control through AI-enhanced propaganda. In his techno-optimist manifesto, the entrepreneur Marc Andreessen casually voices his dream that we might ramp up clean-energy resources so quickly that everyone on earth could soon use 1,000 times more energy a day than is currently typical for people in developed nations.
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