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Is AI an existential threat?
If you ban innovation you stop progress because the learning stops and that's easiest way to add odds to the existential risk category.

Knowledge is the most important resource. If you ban innovation you stop progress because the learning stops and that's the easiest way to add odds to the existential risk category. If errors are not allowed we cannot learn and progress.
You cannot dictate innovation or buy it with money no matter how much politicians like to make you believe so.
Expecting to create an AGI without first understanding in detail how it works is like expecting skyscrapers to learn to fly if we build them tall enough.
I was in a live TV discussion about this topic yesterday. Below you can watch selected clips and the last one is the full version.
Protectionism
Play videoThe opportunity cost
Play videoAutomation and software
Play videoThe worst version of AI tools are here now
Play videoHumans are behind the AI tools
Play videoStopping innovation is the biggest existential risk
Play videoHow do you stop ideas from spreading?
Play videoThe full live discussion
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