‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future

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Misreading the Essays: How Both Reports Got Hijacked by Polarized Camps

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Kevin Roose raises a shared experience: both authors wrote precise, nuanced essays that were immediately claimed by ideologically opposed camps. Kokotajlo describes it as a 'leap of faith in humanity' — he made a bet that clear public forecasting would improve discourse, even if the discourse got noisy along the way. Kapoor is more bluntly shocked: the opening line of his essay compares AI to the internet and the electrical revolution, yet people still put him in the same skeptic camp as Gary Marcus. He notes that the real debate he cares about is entirely within the 'AI is important and transformative' camp — a spectrum from 'as big as the internet' (his view) to 'the most important invention in human history' (Kokotajlo's view).

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The biggest surprise for me was how few people read things in depth. In the first line of the essay, we compare AI to the internet, or perhaps the electrical revolution... and people put us in the same camp as Gary Marcus sometimes. Which is just honestly shocking.

Sayash Kapoor

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