The claim that advanced AI poses a catastrophic risk is overblown, and the fear does more damage than the technology.

Who asserts it

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>> There definitely are signs that they're getting more restrictive or looking at heading that way. Are you worried about that? Sure. Uh and I would just I would just add um uh caution >> and this is to the administration to the president to >> any policy maker all policy makers uh before you listen to all the rhetoric before you listen to all the stories um before you manifest some kind of uh artificial intelligence future that is just not true. It is now grounded in fact is completely fact science fiction. The technology is very important of course the technology is powerful.

Look, over the history of the arc of time, uh, society has become more and more productive as a result of technology. It has created more jobs, not less. If it's created less jobs, you know, we be have 100,000 jobs in the United States. And it's not true. It's created new industries, new opportunities, new markets, new applications. All of that increased the number of the amount of opportunity and growth. And so I think uh the early evidence several years into it. It's now 15 years into the era of AI. Um the evidence is abundantly clear.

But if we're going to use this much compute, it's clearly better put in a data center. I suspect that backlash against data centers is more backlash or discomfort against AI as much as, or even more than, data centers per se. And I am worried that AI is going to make so many people's lives better. I think it will help people learn, improve health care. It will drive business outcomes. I feel like my life personally is more fun now that AI does some of the less fun things for me.