Dan Williams on Why AI (Probably) Won’t Kill Us
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We are in the process of building thinking Understanding agentic machines that are gonna radically transform The world.
And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. The big topic of the day and I think of the year and the decade and perhaps the century is artificial intelligence. And there's so many different questions about AI. It's so hard to know. How to think rigorously. About the different aspects of it. But it can be hard to know who to turn to.
Well one person that I've been reading with particular pleasure. on this question is a former podcast guest of mine. We had a great episode about the role of misinformation and disinformation more broadly and why he's skeptical about those terms, but he has been doing a lot of really interesting writing and also podcasting on his sub stack called Conspicuous Cognition. It is Dan Williams Who teaches philosophy at the University of Sussex. We had a live podcast together in London in which we talked about whether or not artificial intelligence is a normal technology, or whether it's going to revolutionize the world and in what ways. We talked in front of a student audience at Hallison School about education. Is AI going to undermine the current model of education?
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