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Shannon Vallor

Cited on this site for the 2024 Noema essay The Danger Of Superhuman AIartificial intelligence (AI)Computer programs that produce text, images, code or answers by learning from huge numbers of examples — ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are well-known ones. Is Not What You Think.

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OpenAI’s AGI bait-and-switch wipes anything that does not count as economically valuable work from the definition of intelligence. That’s a massive erasure of our human capacity and a reduction of ourselves that we should resist.
Shannon VallorShannon Vallorphilosopher of technologyDescription from Wikidata, The Danger Of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think, section “What Is Superhuman AI?”Read the passage

Used in: Calling AI superhuman shrinks the human

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