Cellphones made my life easier.
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life → make → ?
So did the internet.
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internet → do → ?
Artificial intelligence may enrich it even more.
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intelligence → enrich → it
"Stop AI or we're all going to die!" shout protesters.
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protesters → stop → AI
It's possible that AI will decide that we humans are in the way and imprison us or kill us.
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we → decide → us
Not likely, say AI specialists, but possible.
Anthropic's CEO just warned that AI is advancing faster than our ability to control it.
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AI → say → it
He and other AI executives say they want to slow it down.
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they → say → it
He proposes embedding independent "evaluators" inside his company to assess risks.
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He → propose → risks
He also wants international coordination and federal regulation that would slow his competitors' innovations too.
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that → want → innovations
Has that ever worked?
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that → work → ?
I don't think so.
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I → think → ?
"The anti-AI movement makes all the same mistakes as the anti-fossil fuel movement," says author Alex Epstein in my new video.
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Epstein → make → video
"They deny the huge benefits of something and totally exaggerate the hazards and ignore all the ways we have of solving them.
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we → deny → them
Street protesters worry about cooling water used by data centers that power AI.
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that → worry → AI
But data centers account for a fraction of a percent of U.S. water use (0.04 percent in 2024).
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centers → account → 2024
Also, they can use recycled water.
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they → use → water
Some people worry that data centers' demand for power will raise electricity prices.
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demand → worry → prices
"We can definitely do AI in a way that keeps electricity prices the same," says Epstein.
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Epstein → do → prices
"But it's going to require a reversal of the anti-electricity policies that have gotten us in this situation."
Like closing nuclear plants and forcing use of renewable energy.
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that → go → energy
"With AI," says Epstein, "we've screwed ourselves unnecessarily.
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we → say → ourselves
Enact policies that make it easier to build electricity capacity and make it easy for AI to build its own private grids.
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AI → enact → grids
"It's not that there are no concerns," notes Epstein, "but data centers can be a dream asset to the community that basically just sits in a corner and prints money…
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that → be → money
have no idea what they're thinking about foregoing….A lot of your job that you consider drudgery, like a teacher spending 50 percent of her time grading or a nurse filling out medical forms.
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nurse → have → forms
Those people can start to delegate that to AI, which makes them better teachers, better nurses.
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them → start → AI
AI will also eliminate some jobs.
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AI → eliminate → jobs
But predictions about technology killing lots of jobs or most jobs have repeatedly been proven wrong.
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technology → kill → jobs
We were told automation would cause 15 percent unemployment.
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automation → tell → unemployment
Automation happened.
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Automation → happen → ?
Adam Thierer, author of Permissionless Innovation, says, "History shows us that technology has been a friend of humanity and utilized for great good.
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technology → say → good
That will include AI…if we allow it."
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we → include → it
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) wants government to take "50 percent ownership."
"If the government owns half," says Thierer, "we're probably not going to develop very good AI.
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we → want → AI
Government doesn't have a very good history of creating hot new technologies that serve the public well.
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that → have → public
I don't think we want the U.S. Post Office running our internet or communications networks and we don't want to have Bernie Sanders…controlling our AI robotic systems.
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Sanders → think → systems
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If American companies do slow AI, innovation won't just stop.
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innovation → slow → AI
"If we get this wrong," says Thierer, "the Chinese are there waiting….They're spending a lot of money to be the global leader….Their
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Chinese → get → money
values will come baked into their systems: censorship, surveillance, and control.
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values → come → systems
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China does say: all AI must adhere to "core socialist values."
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AI → say → values
"Whoever wins AI, wins," says President Donald Trump.
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Trump → win → AI
He doesn't want the United States to slow AI innovation.
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States → want → innovation
I think he's right about this.
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he → think → this
…and 2 more, not listed.
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