Reid Hoffman: evaluation

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…No one owns them. Maybe you created it, but you set it free into the wild. It’s a charitable gift. It’ll do amazing proofreading for anyone, gratis. I think autonomy is one of the lines that we have to cross carefully. It’s possible that there will be such autonomous AIs, but it’s one of the areas like self-improving code, autonomy are areas that I pay a lot of attention to because right now, I’m — as you know — a huge advocate of its amplifying human capabilities and being a personal AI, being a copilot to the stuff that we’re doing. I think that is amazing, and we should just do it. When you make it autonomous, you have to be much more careful about what other implications might happen. Let’s put aside destroying the world and killing people. It’s a bot, it tells stories, it gives you comments on your papers, it does useful things. But someone could even sell it to a shell corporation. The corporation goes under, and no one owns the bot. You can’t actually stop autonomy, it seems to me, so it will happen.…

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