Even if it was fully aligned with human interests, a sufficiently powerful AI could potentially overwrite its programming, discarding safety and alignment features apparently built in.

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AI safety reacheres worry (correctly) that should something like an AGI be created, humanity would no longer control its own destiny. For the first time, we would be toppled as the dominant species in the known universe.

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Massively omni-use general purpose technologies will change both society and what it means to be human

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Everywhere you look, technology accelerates this dematerialization, recusing, complexity for the end consumer by providing continuous consumption services rather than traditional buy-once products. … The question now becomes, what else could be made into service, collapsed into the existing suite of another mega-business.

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Cue an “Infocalypse” the point at which society can no longer manage a torrent of sketchy material, where information ecosystem grounding knowledge, trust and social coherension, the glue holding society together, falls apart.

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These [deep]fakes will be so good our rational minds will find it hard to accept they aren’t real.

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How will military and paramilitary planners react when no humans need to be sent into combat?

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That so many people profoundly feel society is failing is itself a problem: distrust breed negativity and apathy. People decline to vote.

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… much of what we see around us is powered by human intelligence in direct pursuit of monetary gain.

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It is a point so obvious it doesn’t often get mentioned: there is no central authority controlling what technologies get developed, who does it, and for what purpose; technology is an orchestra with no conductor. Yet this single fact could end up being the most significant of the twenty -first century.

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Technological rivalry is a geopolitical reality.

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Technology is pushed on by all too rudimental and fundamentally human drivers. From curiosity to crises, fortune to fear, at its heart technology emerges to fill human needs. If people have powerful reasons to build and use it, it will get built and used.

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There is no obvious reason why a single operator, with enough wherewithal, could not control a swarm of thousand of drones.

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… scientists have been working on a method known as inertial confinement, which involves compressing pellets of hydrogen-rich material with lasers and heating them to 100 million degrees to create a fleeting fusion reaction.

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Renewable energy will become the largest single source of electricity generation by 2027.

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