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Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario | Hacker News
In the case of fears over large-scale unemployment, the real risk to the future is the understandable tendency to react to adversity by hanging on to the past rather than seizing the opportunities that the underlying causes of adversity create.
Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
Technology is not popular nowadays. As I write these words in early 2018, it even appears to be an enemy of our entire way of life: it disrupts whole industries; it displaces jobs; it widens the inequality gap; it endangers our privacy; it undermines the economic security that was at the heart of the post-war social compact; it even threatens democ
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Whether Microsoft and Google (and the other big generative AI backers) slowly wind down their positions, or cannibalize their companies to keep OpenAI and Anthropic (as well as their own generative AI efforts) alive, I’m convinced that the end result will be the same. I fear tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs, and much of the tech ind... See more
Edward Zitron • The Subprime AI Crisis
What I learned from reading “Situational Awareness” is that the next generation of privilege-blind Silicon Valley investors are even more out of touch than expected. It’s really sad and feels like a cosmic joke that the world’s most affluent class of people who legitimately have the resources to change the world for the better are living and thinki... See more