Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn’t stop to think if they should.
That quote, of course, came from Dr. Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park, but it just of easily could be mentioned in Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger’s new book Re-Engineering Humanity. To be clear, they aren’t anti-technology, and they aren’t nearly as snarky or shady as Ian Malcom. What they are is cautious, and they expect us to be be the same. In fact, an entire chapter of their book is spent “walking back” the slippery slope argument that has so many terrified of AI.
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