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Gerben Wierda's avatar

It is indeed very worrisome.

"I am increasingly worried that the big tech companies are—in conjunction with a Congress that has not yet passed any substantive AI legislation—successfully architecting a grossly asymmetric world, in which the profits from the positive side flow to them, and the costs of the negative side are borne by everyone else." is very much to the point, but should we have expected otherwise? After all, even a founder of modern capitalism like Adam Smith already warned against listening to entrepreneurs when they argue political issues as they have only one motive: their own profit (definitely not the good of society) regardless how they cloak that message. Given their power in the information space, getting the genie back in the bottle seems an impossible task.

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Kwesi Afful's avatar

Thanks for the article, very interesting and timely for the charity I work with. We are very concerned about how these applications could be used

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