" . . .They still don’t have solutions to the problems they are birthing but believe that their mere awareness will serve them well. As long as they are the masters of their choices, and as long as AI development doesn’t just become a competitive race, they can live in peace.
Hassabis’s belief differed from that of billionaire investor and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, who had first bet on an upstart called OpenAI in 2015 but later committed a billion-dollar fortune to DeepMind. Hoffman felt that multiple AI labs could separately gun for success, similar to a multiparty democracy in which, Mallaby writes, “this pluralism would be balanced by a shared commitment to bedrock values.” In the years since, Hoffman’s hunch has largely prevailed—but the “bedrock values” have frayed, not just in tech but also in the very democratic systems that inspired the analogy. That tension—between optimism and unease—finds a neat distillation in the words of transhuman theorist Ray Kurzweil, who captures the enduring reaction to superhuman intelligence in three beats: “Wow!, Uh-Oh, and What Other Choice Do We Have but to Move Forward?”
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NO CHOICE, RIGHT!
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