The missing half of AI futurism debates
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Why we should think a little harder about what it takes to build a Dyson Sphere
This post is part of Epoch AI’s Gradient Updates newsletter, which shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress. These posts solely represent the views of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Epoch AI as a whole. If you follow AI discourse, you’ll inevitably run into some version of the following claim: a few years after we automate AI research, the world becomes unrecognizable, with nanotech, Dyson swarms, and near-light-speed spacecraft. For example, Ajeya Cotra argues that: “[A] vast population of superhuman AI agents will likely invent…
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