Essay explains why a former AI optimist became an AI doomer
Blogger Fernando Borretti recounts shifting from optimism about AI to extreme concern, arguing that if AI becomes truly general and vastly smarter, faster, and cheaper than humans, there may be nothing left for people to do but live off UBI. He also raises the political consequences of AGI, including his post "No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass."
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