Generative AI Will Become The Most Beneficial Technology Ever Created
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We Need Positive Visions of the Future
People don't want to talk about positive visions of the future, because it is not timely and because it's not the pressing problem. Preventing AI doom already seems so unlikely that caring about what happens in case we succeed feels meaningless. I agree that it seems very unlikely. But I think we still need to care about it, to some extent, even if only for psychological and strategic reasons. And I think this neglect is itself contributing to the very dynamics that make success less likely. The Desperation Engine Some people — or, arguably, many people — go to work on AI capabilities because they see it as kind of "the only hope." "So what now, if we pause AI?", they ask. The problem is that even with paused AI, the future looks grim. Institutional decay continues, aging continues, regula
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