Breaking the Intelligence Curse - The Intelligence Curse
Summary: Avert AI catastrophes with technology for safety and hardening without requiring centralizing control. Diffuse AI that differentially augments rather than automates humans and decentralizes power. Democratize institutions, bringing them closer to regular people as AI grows more powerful. We want a flourishing, prosperous, free society. Given the powers of AI, good institutions and governance are more important than ever. To achieve this, we should build tech and enact policies that democratize our institutions, connecting them closer to the people they serve. However, due to the intelligence curse, institutional solutions alone won’t be stable. The intelligence curse is especially worrying to the extent that it bites during the period when the institutional and policy-related work is being done—which could range from a gradually-falling labor share of income to an immediate and outright coup—and because of what it implies about long-term stability. Therefore, we want to diffus
☰ The Intelligence Curse Art by Nomads & Vagabonds Breaking the Intelligence Curse Summary : Avert AI catastrophes with technology for safety and hardening without requiring centralizing control. Diffuse AI that differentially augments rather than automates humans and decentralizes power. Democratize institutions, bringing them closer to regular people as AI grows more powerful. We want a flourishing, prosperous, free society. Given the powers of AI, good institutions and governance are more important than ever. To achieve this, we should build tech and enact policies that democratize our inst
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