Richard Socher
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And also like the media does not spend a lot of time sort of amplifying positive research breakthrough stories.
Some people love to sell their AI by saying it's so dangerous, but they're the ones who built it best.
Many people like to sell their AI.
I'm quite surprised by that narrative of like, this thing is so dangerous.
I mean, it's clearly not hurting people's stocks.
So I guess we'll keep hearing it until it doesn't.
But it does hurt long-term because when you say it's so dangerous, you're the only one who can do it well.
And people are like, well, if I now don't trust you, but I still believe what you said, then people will think the whole technology is bad.
And then they'll be anti-AI, anti-progress, and that will just not be very helpful.
I obviously love democracy, but I think science and scientific progress has a place everywhere.
And it's somewhat independent of it, but it requires some effort of people to want to participate in that future.
But it's also, it's not for me to say, if you live on some beautiful Greek island,
And you just enjoy fishing each day, grabbing some fish, maybe selling some of the markets, feeding some of them to yourself.
And that's the life you want to live.
I mean, I'm not the one who judge, you know, how other people want to live their lives and how maybe societies want to live their lives.
So I do think we'll see, and already we see this now, right?
The future is already here.
It's just not equally distributed.
Some people will outlaw like robots and automation and then others won't.
And it's sort of, in some sense, it's up to people to decide.