According to the TV commercials, WATSON is now doing taxes for H&R Block. As they say “There goes the neighborhood.”
At a time when the Trump administration is promising to make America great again by restoring old-school manufacturing jobs, AI researchers aren’t taking him too seriously. They know that these jobs are never coming back, thanks in no small part to their own research, which will eliminate so many other kinds of jobs in the years to come, as well. At Asilomar, they looked at the real US economy, the real
reasons for the “hollowing out” of the middle class. The problem isn’t immigration—far from it. The problem isn’t offshoring or taxes or regulation. It’s technology.
The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a volunteer-run research and outreach organization in the Boston area that works to mitigate existential risks facing humanity, particularly existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence (AI). Its founders include MIT cosmologist
Max
Tegmark, Skype co-founder Jaan
Tallinn, and its board of advisors includes cosmologist Stephen
Hawking and entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Here is a link to a series of
discussion videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rCCy3FQ-GItDimSR9lhzw/feed
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