80,000 Hours Podcast
80,000 Hours Podcast

#234 – David Duvenaud on why 'aligned AI' would still kill democracy

Democracy might be a brief historical blip. That’s the unsettling thesis of a recent paper, which argues AI that can do all the work a human can do inevitably leads to the “gradual disempowerment” of humanity. For most of history, ordinary people had almost no control over their governments. Liberal

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