New pod: THE SINGLE SMARTEST CASE AGAINST THE AI SAFETY/X-RISK/DOOM ARGUMENT My feed has become filled with people making the case for AI misalignment, the existential risk of RSI/ASI, and the case for doom. I take those arguments very seriously. But once these views reached saturation point on my feed, I wanted to find the best critic of that position—someone fair and brilliant, who wasn't commercially self-interested or blindly ideological about AI being worthless. That's today's show: It's a long interview with the authors of "AI as a Normal Technology," Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) and Sayash Kapoor (@sayashk). "Normal Technology" is really intelligent and comprehensive framework for seeing AI as a powerful general purpose technology that is more like electricity than a machine god--meaning, it's going to change the world but slowly, and it's unlikely to escape human control, or develop true superintelligence, or lead to catastrophic outcomes up to and including the end of the human race. These guys really, really brought their A game. I learned a lot.