Downstream: The Big AI Lie w/ Cory Doctorow
AI is set to take all of our jobs. It will irrevocably transform our relationships - and it might even kill us all. These are some of the big claims made about artificial intelligence today. And they are claims that on Novara, we take seriously. This week's Downstream guest thinks that giving weight to those grand concerns is a mistake. He believes that by talking up the possibility that AI could replace significant amounts of labour - or develop an agency of its own - only serves to exaggerate the capacity of AI - and therefore just helps tech CEOs drive more investors to buy their already…
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