“Conflicted on AI Politics” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

About

twice
as many Americans think AI is likely to have a negative effect as
a positive one. At a high level I agree: we're talking about
computers that are smart in ways similar to people, and quickly
getting smarter. They're also faster and cheaper than people, and
again getting more so.

There are a lot of ways this could go, and many of them are seriously
bad. I'm personally most worried about AI removing the technical
barriers that keep regular people from creating
pandemics, removing human inefficiencies and moral objections that
have historically
made totalitarian surveillance and control difficult to maintain,
and gradually being put in control of critical systems without
effective safeguards that keep them aligned
with our interests. I think these are some of the most important
problems in the world today, and quit
my job to work on one of
them.

Despite [...]

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First published:

June 11th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wtZuGxqr2uiyvNe3G/conflicted-on-ai-politics

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