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I’m skeptical that powerful AI will solve major human problems

Perhaps we will welcome our new AI overlords and perhaps they will treat us kindly. But either way, my current preference is to put many fewer eggs in the “further advances in Computer Stuff will save us” basket and many more eggs in the “we need to directly address public policy problems that relate to macroscopic objects in physical space.”

Matthew Yglesias, “I’m skeptical that powerful AI will solve major human problems