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@RuxandraTeslo argues the most neglected AI safety risk isn't a robot takeover, it's the gradual surrender of human thinking:
"A calculator relieves us of a quite narrow operation whose purpose we already understand, whereas AI systems can increasingly take over large swathes of mental activity. Often, these are the very activities through which our understanding develops in the first place."
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The world's top thinkers on AI are posting on Substack. Bookmark this thread for your weekend reading on pacing the frontier from Noah Smith, Matt Yglesias, Ruxandra Teslo, Dwarkesh Patel, Dean W. Ball, and more:
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“Last year, China generated more than twice as much electricity as the United States, and as energy becomes the bottleneck on industries like AI and manufacturing, that gap is becoming a national security problem.”
@mikemcg0 and Erin Price-Wright of a16z profile two founders who believe cheap batteries can be part of the answer to fixing the aging US grid
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Today, Substack is launching an AI detection feature, via an integration with @pangram. Going forward, you’ll be able to scan posts, replies, and comments on the Substack app to see an estimate of how much of it was written by a human, or with AI assistance.
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