Joshua Rothman

Small but important ways. From tech billionaires to the bond market to, yeah, banana pudding. If it's happening in business, our new podcast is on it. I'm Max Chastin.

Small but important ways. From tech billionaires to the bond market to, yeah, banana pudding. If it's happening in business, our new podcast is on it. I'm Max Chastin.

Small but important ways. From tech billionaires to the bond market to, yeah, banana pudding. If it's happening in business, our new podcast is on it. I'm Max Chastin.

You know, if it's the case that we get way better at building technical things, we should expect that the country that has the best AI will have the best robot army. We are worried about— We're seeing that already? We are.

You know, if it's the case that we get way better at building technical things, we should expect that the country that has the best AI will have the best robot army. We are worried about— We're seeing that already? We are.

You know, if it's the case that we get way better at building technical things, we should expect that the country that has the best AI will have the best robot army. We are worried about— We're seeing that already? We are.

Right. And the U.S. government has a research program into automated fighter planes, for example. If we're worried about the incompetence of government on whatever side of that you situate yourself— we should worry about automated government. For example, an AI decides the length of a sentence in a criminal conviction, or an AI decides whether you qualify for Medicaid.

Right. And the U.S. government has a research program into automated fighter planes, for example. If we're worried about the incompetence of government on whatever side of that you situate yourself— we should worry about automated government. For example, an AI decides the length of a sentence in a criminal conviction, or an AI decides whether you qualify for Medicaid.

Right. And the U.S. government has a research program into automated fighter planes, for example. If we're worried about the incompetence of government on whatever side of that you situate yourself— we should worry about automated government. For example, an AI decides the length of a sentence in a criminal conviction, or an AI decides whether you qualify for Medicaid.

Basically, we'll have less of a say in how things go, and computers will have more of a say, just to put it in those terms. It's not dissimilar from the phone. In the case of the phone, the algorithm decides what options it'll be presented with in terms of where you're going to turn your attention.

Basically, we'll have less of a say in how things go, and computers will have more of a say, just to put it in those terms. It's not dissimilar from the phone. In the case of the phone, the algorithm decides what options it'll be presented with in terms of where you're going to turn your attention.

Basically, we'll have less of a say in how things go, and computers will have more of a say, just to put it in those terms. It's not dissimilar from the phone. In the case of the phone, the algorithm decides what options it'll be presented with in terms of where you're going to turn your attention.

And the algorithm has certain built-in biases towards things that are provocative, contentious, alarming.

And the algorithm has certain built-in biases towards things that are provocative, contentious, alarming.

And the algorithm has certain built-in biases towards things that are provocative, contentious, alarming.

Well, because, well, I don't really. I'm pretty freaked out about it. But I also feel in one's mental model of the future, you just, there's not one answer to this. How's it going to go? But do we have any choice? Do we have any sense of volition in this? Well, I think we should be learning lessons from what happened with phones and applying them to AI, just to put it in the broadest terms.

Well, because, well, I don't really. I'm pretty freaked out about it. But I also feel in one's mental model of the future, you just, there's not one answer to this. How's it going to go? But do we have any choice? Do we have any sense of volition in this? Well, I think we should be learning lessons from what happened with phones and applying them to AI, just to put it in the broadest terms.

Well, because, well, I don't really. I'm pretty freaked out about it. But I also feel in one's mental model of the future, you just, there's not one answer to this. How's it going to go? But do we have any choice? Do we have any sense of volition in this? Well, I think we should be learning lessons from what happened with phones and applying them to AI, just to put it in the broadest terms.

We did nothing. We've all experienced what it is to have a technology insert itself into our daily life in a way that replaces old habits with new habits. In my mind, there's a couple scenarios. In one scenario... We live in a science fiction novel, and we really don't have much of an opportunity to intervene. The technology is just coming, and it's coming next year or year after.

We did nothing. We've all experienced what it is to have a technology insert itself into our daily life in a way that replaces old habits with new habits. In my mind, there's a couple scenarios. In one scenario... We live in a science fiction novel, and we really don't have much of an opportunity to intervene. The technology is just coming, and it's coming next year or year after.