Will AI take over the world?

Key Takeaways

should people be afraid of ai taking over the world there's a lot of things to be afraid of with ai i like to see it as we have a distribution over different kinds of outcomes some more positive than others so there isn't some set at least not one that we can know there are a lot of different things where ai can be just super helpful super assistive possibly task based as opposed to more general intelligence and you could see it going the other way similar to this example i had given about um thinking something destructive was beautiful like that's one hop away from the system is able to like press a button or the equivalent to press a button to like set off a missile or whatever like yeah so i don't think people should be scared per se but i do think that they should think about the worst ways that things could go and the best ways that things can go and aim for the best ways and try and mitigate or stop the worst ways i think the biggest issue right now is just on how these systems can can widen the divide between you know haves and have not really like further further give power to people who have power and you know further worse and things for people who don't as the people designing these systems are often people with more power and wealth and they design for their kinds of interests yeah so i think that's the the thing that's happening now and one of the riskiest things to be thinking about in the future but ideally if if we can focus on what's actually most beneficial then we can lead it in that direction