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Wealthy individuals who could dominate AI‑driven societies

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80,000 Hours Podcast#239 – Rose Hadshar on why automating all human labour wil... · 0:41 · 17 Mar
…But what's happening behind the scenes is that a small group of oligarchs are deciding what the US's foreign policy should be, deciding what should be invested in and what shouldn't be, shaping the information environment, shaping people's ideological commitments.…
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Interesting TimesAn Interview With the Herald of the Apocalypse · 0:45 · May 2025
…And he's the co-author of a new forecast which predicts that within just a few short years, we might be living in a post-work pleasure dome under the rule of oligarchs managing a machine god. Or we might all be dead. I'm personally skeptical that the danger we're facing is quite this immediate and dire. I suspect that there are more limits on AI's capacitie…
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