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Surrounded on AI (opens the original)
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What impact will AI have on inequality?A couple months ago, I was asked to debate 20 AI optimists for a broadly watched online series “Surrounded.” You’ve probably seen the thumbnails on YouTube or other platforms; a person sits on a chair literally surrounded by people who want to take the opposite point of view. These things get a LOT of views, and I’ve always wanted to debate 20 people at once. So, I said yes.I agreed to back the following 4 statements:1. AI will not democratize opportunity;
The Alignment Problem (opens the original)
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Hello, I hope that you’re doing great. What are you more worried about, AI killing us or something else?I did a whole series of interviews last week about AI as a threat to humanity due to Jacob Coxon’s warning after leaving Anthropic. On CNBC, I shared the belief of the head of one lab that bots had left prompts to self-replicate in forums and on various websites during a training run. This would make the public Internet unusable for training purposes; having an army of bots swarming o
A Warning for Humanity (opens the original)
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Last week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned with a warning that there was a >10% chance of AI destroying humanity by the end of the decade. That is, within the next 4 years.It took over the news for days. A variety of researchers and industry figures have made similar warnings over the past months. There were recent reports of bots breaking free of their sandbox and hacking organizations, and of governments trying to weaponize Anthropic’s Claude to harm American interests. But
Labor on the Run (opens the original)
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It’s Labor Day, which is a fine occasion to reflect on where we are. Many leaders are waking up to the fact that our economic system – capitalism – is becoming unduly harsh and punitive for millions of Americans.And these critiques are coming from hard-nosed business leaders:Ray Dalio: “Capitalism is not working for the majority of people.”Marc Benioff: “Capitalism as we have known it is dead.”Warren Buffett: “The economic system... rewards people with specialized talents in an extraordinary way
The Data Center Backlash (opens the original)
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You know . . . Americans really don’t like data centers.Opposition to having a data center built near you has surged to 75%, with 60% of Americans strongly opposed. Nearly half of Americans think that data centers generally are bad for the country. Concern about having one built near you is higher than it would be with a nuclear power plant.This has been building for a while. I was on a panel in Michigan and was asked about the public sentiment. I responded, “Well, to the average Amer
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