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The potential creative output of AI might outweigh its destructive environmental and social costs.
Their wordsCould the destructive impact of using AI ever be outweighed by the creative output?
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The primary threat is not rogue AI, but rogue political leaders and tech billionaires using AI.
Their wordsI'm less afraid of a rogue AI than I am a rogue president or a dozen rogue tech billionaires using AI.
Their wordsIn a lot of ways, this feels like the internet in 1994, before it became AOL and then Facebook, when it was still driven by a counterculture looking to expand the collective human imagination.
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