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Tyler Cowen: belief

25 Nov 2024 Conversations with Tyler Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate

“I think he’s worried about artificial intelligence, and he views it as potentially the new fascism.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Speaker
Tyler Cowen
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
25 Nov 2024
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Tell me. Well, look, the very last sentence on that page, which is its own paragraph: “Fascism annihilated tens of millions of people.” Before that, he’s mentioning that the AI machine would be so large — he didn’t know Moore’s law — that it might take up the entire surface of Earth. There may not be room for humans on Earth, I think is what he’s saying. I think he’s worried about artificial intelligence, and he views it as potentially the new fascism. That’s how I took the section. No, I think that’s fair. I think that’s fair.…

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