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Dean W. Ball's avatar

It's very similar, in my mind, to what happened with nuclear energy--where we got all the bad stuff (weapons capable of killing all humanity many times over) and not nearly enough of the good stuff (clean, abundant energy).

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Fred Hapgood's avatar

There is this difference: with AI a user is interacting directly with the technology. (Almost everyone I know is using it right now as a general purpose search upgrade; I have friends who use it to write summaries of meetings, etc.) So the benefits of the technology are easier to access and therefore appreciate/

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Dean W. Ball's avatar

True!

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