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Cory Doctorow · 5w
Bengio said he'd started Lawzero because he was convinced that AI was going to get a *lot* more powerful, and, in the absence of some public-spirited version of AI, we would be subject to all kinds of...
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I'm worried a fast-talking AI salesman will convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that *can't* do your job (the salesman will be pushing on an open door, since if there's one thing bosses hate, it's paying workers).

I'm worried that the seven companies that comprise 35% of the S&P 500 are headed for bankruptcy, as soon as someone makes them stop passing around the same $100b IOU while pretending it's in all their bank accounts at once.

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Cory Doctorow · 5w
I'm worried that when that happens, the chatbots that badly do the jobs of the people who were fired because of the AI salesman will go away, and nothing and no one will do those jobs. I'm worried that the chaos caused by vaporizing a third of the stock market will lead to austerity and thence to fa...