The Education of a Doomer
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How and why I went from AI optimist to AI doomer.
If you follow me on Twitter, or read this blog, you have noticed that I went from being generally optimistic and excited about AI to being extremely concerned. And I thought, I should explain why I changed my mind. Each section of this post is about some aspect of AI where my views shifted. I begin each section by explaining my previous beliefs, and why I held them, and then explain why those beliefs changed. Contents Economics Alignment Control Writing Software Engineering Deferring to AI Stagnation Economics Automation has been good. We’ve automated 99% of the jobs people did in…
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