Benedict Evans
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941 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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It was like, no, I can't logically prove that that a generative AI system wouldn't try and kill us all.
But that doesn't mean
That he would.
Or that that you proved that it will either.
I mean, that was really the point, that it was the kind of the core fallacy was because that to say w you can't prove that this won't happen, that therefore I approve that it will happen.
Mm.
That was the fallacy.
No, they might be right, but they couldn't prove that they were right.
It was just kind of vague speculation.
And so yes, all of the doomerism's gone away.
I think a lot of the um the risk stuff.
I think you kind of have to separate the risk stuff into this is all gonna kill us all, which was just silly.
And like bad people will do bad stuff with this and people will screw up with this, which is true of every new technology.
And we know this about social and
This is also true about databases and cars and aircraft and every other technology.
Um, bad people do bad stuff with it.
People screw up and do bad stuff with it.
It is fine, all of our worst instincts get expressed and manifested in new ways in the new thing.
And so you already see this with porn and deep fake porn, and you'll see it in a whole bunch of other stuff.
I mean, the joke on Twitter a while ago was: you know, if anyone was saying something stupid.
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