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Superintelligence definitions determine governance and concentration concerns
Superintelligence definitions determine governance and concentration concerns
Ho argues that disagreements about AI governance largely follow from different assumptions about superintelligence, with a near-omnipotent form of AGI creating much stronger power-concentration concerns than broadly useful personal intelligence.
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- Eric Ho
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- 7:33
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