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Executive summary - Keep The Future Human

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Dramatic advances in artificial intelligence over the past decade (for narrow-purpose AI) and the last several years (for general-purpose AI) have transformed AI from a niche academic field to the core business strategy of many of the world’s largest companies, with hundreds of billions of dollars in annual investment in the techniques and technologies for advancing AI’s capabilities. We now come to a critical juncture. As the capabilities of new AI systems begin to match and exceed those of humans across many cognitive domains, humanity must decide: how far do we go, and in what direction? AI, like every technology, started with the goal of improving things for its creator. But our current trajectory, and implicit choice, is an unchecked race toward ever-more powerful systems, driven by economic incentives of a few huge technology companies seeking to automate large swathes of current economic activity and human labor. If this race continues much longer, there is an inevitable winner:

Executive summary - Keep The Future Human Keep The Future Human by Anthony Aguirre 🔔 Just announced: The latest essay from Anthony Aguirre, " Control Inversion: Why the superintelligent AI agents we are racing to create would absorb power, not grant it" | Read the essay Return to essay home Executive summary A high-level overview of the essay. If you're short on time, get all the main points in just 10 minutes. Save the whole paper: Download PDF Essay navigation Dramatic advances in artificial intelligence over the past decade (for narrow-purpose AI) and the last several years (for general-pu

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