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They're both short sighted attempts at extracting profit while ignoring all negative consequences.



To extent I agree, I think that's true for all tech since the plough, fire, axles.

But I would otherwise say that most (though not all*) AI researchers seem to be deeply concerned about the set of all potential negative consequences, including mutually incompatible outcomes where we don't know which one we're even heading towards yet.

* And not just Yann LeCun — though, given his position, it would still be pretty bad even if it was just him dismissing the possibility of anything going wrong




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