Why AI Will Save the World

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In a positive view, AI is seen as a tool that can enhance human intelligence across various fields and improve outcomes in coding, medicine, law, and the arts. The document argues that AI has the potential to make significant advancements in fields such as scientific research, healthcare, and warfare, ultimately leading to a better world. Despite public concerns and moral panics surrounding AI, the document suggests that AI’s development and proliferation are essential for progress and should be embraced rather than feared. It also addresses common fears related to AI, such as its potential to cause harm, mass unemployment, inequality, and facilitate criminal activities, proposing ways to mitigate these risks through existing laws and ethical considerations.

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There is one final, and real, AI risk that is probably the scariest at all: AI isn’t just being developed in the relatively free societies of the West, it is also being developed by the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China.

And they do not intend to limit their AI strategy to China – they intend to proliferate it all across the world, everywhere they are powering 5G networks, everywhere they are loaning Belt And Road money, everywhere they are providing friendly consumer apps like Tiktok that serve as front ends to their centralized command and control AI.

The single greatest risk of AI is that China wins global AI dominance and we – the United States and the West – do not.

Big AI companies should be allowed to build AI as fast and aggressively as they can – but not allowed to achieve regulatory capture, not allowed to establish a government-protect cartel that is insulated from market competition due to incorrect claims of AI risk. This will maximize the technological and societal payoff from the amazing capabilities of these companies, which are jewels of modern capitalism.

To offset the risk of bad people doing bad things with AI, governments working in partnership with the private sector should vigorously engage in each area of potential risk to use AI to maximize society’s defensive capabilities.

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