Reid Hoffman: prediction

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…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. I think to some degree, one of the earliest regulations we’ll see is that every AI has to, essentially, be provisionally owned and governed by some person, so there will be some accountability chain. Because if you’re using it for cyber hacking, and you say, “I didn’t use it. That bot was doing marketing, but that bot was doing cyber hacking, but that wasn’t me,” it’s like, “Well, but you were the person who was responsible for it.” There’s always a thinly capitalized corporation. Again, I’m talking about positive, productive bots that will be autonomous.…

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