AI companies like OpenAI are basically performing gain-of-function research on humanity

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Underlying the AI push unfolding across the tech industry right now is a sentiment that machines are fundamentally better than humans.

Let's come to an understanding of how we got to this moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence.

AI is going to improve so many things, they tell us, not unlike the way technologists once propagated the absurd notion that giving everyone in the world a microphone, via Twitter, was a de facto good -- notwithstanding the fact that there are a lot of crazy, evil, and mendacious people in the world. This time, though, what's happening is not something that can be scoffed at, the way contrarians used to dismiss Twitter as little more than a vehicle for telling the world you ate a sandwich.

 

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