Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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557 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
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Certainly the possibilities for widespread white-collar unemployment and social instability and total unimaginable economic disruption is extremely scary.
Even if we stop short of possible existential harms of turning us all into paperclips or whatever, to be glib about it, it just seems very possible that we will turn over so many...
complex systems to these things that we will like frog boil ourselves into like a total loss of control over like how we administer our affairs, which is very likely and very scary.
And also just that like these really crucial decisions are probably going to be made by a very, very small group of people.
But the one thing that I would emphasize is that like I don't
feel like they have arrogated to themselves that responsibility.
In fact, I think most of them don't want it.
I think that a lot of the conversations that I was having were with people who were like,
I got into this because I was interested in some really obscure niche part of computational linguistics, theoretical computer science, or whatever.
And now I'm in a position where I have to be worrying about how 15-year-olds are going to be using this.
I was not trained to do that.
I don't know how to think about it.
I don't want that responsibility on my shoulders.
So there isn't the arrogance of like, we are the ones who can figure it out.
It's like we ended up in this weird universe where because so many of our institutions have become dysfunctional, we don't have whatever broad democratic decision-making could go into this.
It doesn't feel like this is something that like we are steering as a society.
It feels like something that's just like charging ahead.
Like I think at the companies, they just feel like they are like desperately trying to like stay on top of this bull that they are riding.
And we are playing a role in that too.
You know, every time someone on like our side, so to speak, is just like, this is all a parlor trick.
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