🤖 Debating the AI pause at Microsoft's kickoff event
I had the opportunity to debate the AI pause, six months after it was proposed, with Christian Landgren.
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At Microsoft's big event in Stockholm, I had the opportunity to debate the AI pause, six months after it was proposed. I was against the pause, and instead wrote my own letter: Pause AI Doomster Pessimism.
💡 Pause AI Doomster Pessimism: An Open Letter
We call on all AI doomsters to immediately pause for at least 6 months the alarmism that is hurting human progress.
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We call on all AI doomsters to immediately pause for at least 6 months the alarmism that is hurting human progress.
Christian Landgren held the opposing view. He signed the letter, but is not one of the AI doomsters, so I thought we had a pretty good discussion.
I expanded my view a bit in this update:
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: No AI pause, but the doomsday rhetoric has taken hold
Doomsday rhetoric has taken hold at the highest level, and risks damaging the future of humanity.
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Thank you to Microsoft for inviting us!
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist