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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI

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A pithy soundbite to take-away, buried deep in the article:

  AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more.

Maybe the way we get our bosses to stop shoving AI down our throats is to build an AI system that is expressly designed to do the job of a Sr. Exec at a tech company. There's nothing about their jobs that makes them impossible to automate given the capabilities of state of the art LLMs. People talk about superintelligence a lot- if you had a superinteligent AGI at your disposal as a CEO, why would you trust your Sr. Execs to make the big important decisions? Lay them off and use AI.

Once you have an AI Sr. Execbot, CEO the board of directors will be thrilled they can save tens of millions per year on those gigantic bonusus - and company performance will increase as well.

Very good (albeit extremely cynic) take!

reality is probably somewhere in the middle but it does make a good case

This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job

you need to understand and stress how the products of the AI will be substandard

Delightful insight given the present state of this technology.

I'd be curious to hear his take on driverless cars though. It's literally going to replace jobs, seems competent enough at what it does.

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