The central problem for humanity in the twenty-first century is how we can nurture sufficient legitimate political power and wisdom, adequate technical mastery, and robust norms to constrain technologies to ensure they continue to do far more good than harm. How in other words, we can contain the seemingly uncontainable.

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Exponential change is coming. It is inevitable. The fact needs to be addressed.

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Make no mistake: standstill in itself spells disaster.

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That’s part of the problem; we don’t know what failure models are being introduced and how deep they could extend.

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AI is both valuable and dangerous precisely because it’s an extension of our best and worst selves.

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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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