Robert Wright
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first heard Jun 2026
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Yeah, well, first of all, I think, and I don't think I'm completely alone here, that if we're going to handle this technology well, if we're going to get through the AI revolution in good shape without certain catastrophes unfolding, possibly existential disasters, we're going to have to approach this as a true global community.
It's an inherently international issue.
There are just too many things that can go wrong that cross national borders.
I mean, starting with an AI, maybe helping somebody build a bioweapon or something.
But there are a lot of examples where it becomes clear that national policy alone is not going to be enough to keep things under control.
So we're going to need to have more in the way of international governance,
international rules than we're accustomed to having.
And I think getting to that point is going to require a kind of moral progress, you could say, because we're going to have to build a more peaceful world.
We're going to have to have much less in the way of conflict, especially including military conflict.
And that, in turn, is going to call for us all to get better at looking at things from the point of view of other groups of people, other nations, even nations we think of as adversaries, even enemies.
We need to at least understand how the people there and the governments there are looking at things if we're going to develop these cooperative relationships that I think, in light of this technology, are absolutely necessary.
And, you know, I consider that a kind of moral progress.
If you get better at looking at things from the point of view of rivals, adversaries and so on, it's hard.
It's very hard because there are specific cognitive biases that are that are built into people that make it hard.
But I think it's doable.
And I think it's going to have to happen.
This is a very powerful technology.
Its power is starting to become clear to more and more people.
And I think in a way, it's good news that it almost forces us to get better at dealing with one another on a like planetary scale.
Well, life's been around for more than three billion years.
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