Jeremy Howard: belief

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…Well, I mean, like like now, for example, they they say that this is the new means of production. And that's that seems completely hyperbolic to me. But, like, in your best estimation now, if there are risks, what are they? If there are risks with the current state of technology, I mean, I think some of them are the ones we've discussed, which is people enfeebling themselves by basically losing their ability to be to become more competent over time. That's that's that's the big risk I worry about the most. The privacy risk, it's there, but I'm not sure it's much more there than it was for Google and Microsoft before. Like, you know, you used to work at Microsoft. You know how much data they have about the average Outlook, Office, etcetera, user. Ditto for Google, you know, the average Google Workspace or Gmail user. Those privacy issues are real. Although I think there are bigger privacy issues around these companies which the government can outsource data collection to. So back in the day, it used to be companies like ChoicePoint and Acxiom. Nowadays, it's probably more companies like Palantir. The US government is actually prohibited from building large databases about US citizens, for example. But it's not prohibited companies are not prohibited from doing so, and the government's not prohibited from contracting things to those companies. So, I mean, that's a huge worry, but I don't think it's 1 that AI is uniquely creating. It certainly so, like, you're in The UK. As you know, in The UK, surveillance has been universal for quite a while now. It certainly makes it easier to use that surveillance. But a sufficiently well resourced organization could just throw 1000 bodies at the problem. So, yeah. I'm not sure these are due privacy problems. There's maybe more common ones than they used to be. Yeah. Jeremy, I've just noticed the time. I need to get to the airport.…

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