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Once you have reduced the concept of human intelligence to *what the markets will pay for*, then suddenly, all it takes to build an intelligent machine — even a superhuman one — is to make something that generates economically valuable outputs at a rate and average quality that exceeds your own economic output. Anything else is irrelevant.
The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think
Shannon Vallor
It was the economist John Maynard Keynes who predicted that we could, through technological advances, all be working a 15-hour week, with more time for leisure and intellectual pursuits that could further humanity. Instead, we have found technological advances have been primarily used to force greater productivity from humans themselves and consolidate wealth, capital and resources into the hands of fewer and fewer individuals.
The Corrosive Effects of Social Media Must Warn Us About the AI Revolution Ahead
Kyle Taylor
Most of them treat interaction design and software architecture as advice, and their programmers and engineers always have the last word. None of those companies' CEOs has any clue as to what is really going on in the engineers' cubicles, so they squeeze the schedule without reason.
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper
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