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Replace AI with car, airplane, medic devices in the sentence above... Why is AI any different from other human creations? Why shouldn't we try building it responsibly?

I don't get the all or nothing attitude.

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I hope you're not trying to cite those things as examples of stuff we've built out responsibly.

If you had a button that would erase cars, airplanes or medical devices as they exist today, would you push it? I believe these inventions are very net positive for the world as they are right now.

A hundred years ago, in Michigan the home of the automobile, we had an extensive electric light rail network between most cities of at least a few thousand people. You could walk to a trolley which ran every 15 minutes, ride it to a local interchange, and pick up a connecting line to any major city in the region.

Unfathomable what it would cost to rebuild that infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

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