I’ve run the numbers and I’ve decided that AI is a net force for good in life.
On the con side, we have potential to end the world, be idolized, upend healthy social arrangements, degrade human cognitive capacity, and break down the electric grid.
On the pro side, we have the fact that it could figure out why on earth I was emailing the following to myself from my work email in the middle of 2023:
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Turns out, this is a cookie clicker save file. How the AI figured that out, who can say??