Karen Hao

Because no person is perfect.

I don't care who is on the top of these companies.

They're not going to have the ability to make decisions on behalf of so many people around the world who live and talk and have a culture and history that are fundamentally different from them without things going wrong.

And so that is why throughout history, we've moved from empires to democracy.

It's because empire as a structure is inherently unsound.

It does not actually maximize the chances of most people in the world being able to live dignified lives.

And if it's true... I mean, yeah, any theory might be true.

So there's a lot of fundamentals in this argument that would need to be true in order for this to be a viable argument.

And let's knock them down one by one.

So the first one is that

these systems are intelligent and that just scaling them is going to bring us more intelligence.

No, it's actually not because first of all, again, we don't actually know if these systems are like intelligence is not, it's not like the right analogy almost.

It's sort of like, it's like as a calculator, a calculator can do math problems faster than a human.

Does that make it intelligent?

And these systems, they actually also are quite narrowly intelligent in the sense that even though these companies say that they're everything machines that can do anything for anyone, they actually can only do some things for some people.

This is like the jagged frontier of these AI models.

Like some of the capabilities are quite good.

Other capabilities are not that good.

You know why that happens?

It's because the company can only focus on advancing certain types of capabilities.