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This Is How AI Starts a Nuclear War
He’s spent decades writing about human nature. Now Robert Wright says AI is the ultimate test of whether we’ve actually learned anything.
Robert Wright has been talking about human nature and technology since before most people knew what a podcast was, going back to a video platform he co-founded in 2005 called Bloggingheads.tv. His new book, The God Test, makes an argument that stuck with me: AI isn’t dangerous because it might spontaneously turn on us, but rather because it’s about to t…
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