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Radical Progress Without Scary AI

Mar 10, 202415 minSeason 3Ep. 139
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Radical Progress Without Scary AI: Technological progress, in medicine for example, provides an altruistic motivation for developing more powerful AIs. I suggest that AI may be unnecessary, or even irrelevant, for that. We may be able to get the benefits without the risks.

https://betterwithout.ai/radical-progress-without-AI

What kind of AI might accelerate technological progress?: “Narrow” AI systems, specialized for particular technical tasks, are probably feasible, useful, and safe. Let’s build those instead of Scary superintelligence.

https://betterwithout.ai/what-AI-for-progress

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