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A conversation on concentration of power
Many people who are paying attention to the trajectory of AI worry about its potential to concentrate power. I think this is a reasonable thing to worry about, with some important caveats. If someone builds a superintelligence, I think they are far more likely to die ignominiously with the rest of us than attain a stranglehold on wealth and power; but if this somehow manages not to happen, I do then worry about what happens instead. Below is a significantly paraphrased, cleaned, and polished amalgam of a conversation that I have had, at least twice now, on this subject. It is not itself a real conversation, nor was every point therein made explicitly by the participants; but it mostly follows the general shape of the real conversations that inspired it. Part 1: The Musk-Maximizer Norm: So
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