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See Lex Fridman's YouTube interview with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. OpenAI's strategy is to push these AI tools into the public consciousness while the tools are still relatively weak but still impressive, and thereby get policymakers goaded into planning intelligently for the inevitable deep socioeconomic changes to come.

These AI tech people are a tight group. I suspect the call for a pause is another tactic in that strategy to wake everyone up to the new dawn.

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There is simply no way realistically to put the brakes on now! Start-ups and innovators aren't going to pause while "people" decide to set up the guard rails. Which people exactly will determine the parameters? This should have been started a long while ago if it's even possible. Once this is unleashed in the world, there's no holding back now because Twitter and other established platforms have been caught on the back foot. I already cannot manage doing without Chat GPT and no one dare take it away from me.... And I wrote this comment myself hehe (not via AI).

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I think it's a good idea to pause. I don't think it will happen, but it's a good idea. It would be good to have some guard rails around it. We all know that the internet should not be the source of truth, but this can be very powerful.

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Too late! That is akin to asking "should we put a pause on the internet?

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