Ben Thompson
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41,192 appearances
118 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Only we are properly concerned about the dangers.
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It's that exclusivity that is and what's implicit in that is only we should control AI, combined with the rhetoric of AI is going to run the world.
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People got mad at the sentence in my article, but it's just a logical construction.
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If A equals B and B equals C, then A equals C.
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I'm like, they want to run the world.
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Like that's the implication of saying we should run AI and AI is going to run the world.
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I mean, yeah, what behavior and I think they're their rhetoric.
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They clearly don't think Sab Altman should run AI, that's for sure.
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Uh that's true.
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Which by the way, I completely agree.
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he's he's cleaned up his rhetoric a lot.
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I think there's a there was a real a lot of bad rhetoric that came and this is the challenge, 'cause people are like, look, why should they not talk about like jobs upheaval?
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And no, they they there's the opposite mistake, which is to say nothing is going to happen and where you're basically lying through your teeth.
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Like and I think there's an aspect of that in Silicon Valley that is like
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Nothing that is not gonna no, it is going to be disruptive.
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Now we might not know exactly how it's gonna be disruptive.
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There's no you go back to the internet, the internet was incredibly disruptive.
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Right.
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Like the entire structure of society
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W the administration is the Trump administration, which is directly downstream from the structural changes wrought by the internet and what it did to media.
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