Reid Hoffman: belief

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…You’re a small party in Northern Ireland. You’re part of a coalition government in London. You can just tap into the world’s strongest computational power. No risk of Chinese bribing people in this small party. Can you use the AI to run your campaign to be reelected in Northern Ireland? Do you have to give access to the opposition party? What, within government, rations access to the really powerful stuff that’s not just open to the public? Which branch of government should do that? Which standards? Clearly, the notion to reinforce one particular party — we try to make the parties as equally armed as possible for a democratic purpose. You would want to do that. You wouldn’t say, “You have unique access for doing this.” It’d have to be equally capable. Whether or not it’s equally intelligently used is a different question, but equally capable across it. I do think that, generally speaking, part of the reason why I deeply share the OpenAI mission is to say, how do we provide beneficial AI to as many individuals, human beings, and as many organizations and as many institutions as we can is, I think, a really good thing. What does the media ecosystem look like in this world? Let’s say a lot of people, rather than reading the New York Times, are going to Twitter. They just ask their AI, “Read it for me; tell me what’s new.” It seems there’s another layer of disintermediation. Or is it like BuzzFeed, where people won’t want that? It will just go under, and we’ll more or less be back to the universe we have now?…

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