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Arvind Narayanan

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To understand and empathize with how workers in many or most fields outside software experience advances in AI capabilities, I propose a little thought experiment.<br>What's gone wrong with AI & labor — a thought experiment

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@linguinelabs

Jul 29

If it weren’t for the constant, vocalized threat (from CEOs!) of being replaced as a software engineer, it would be (and is) pretty exhilarating time to be a software engineer right now

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@clarejtbirch

Jul 29

please consider: @thinkymachines

The Future Worth Building Is Human

From thinkingmachines.ai

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Jul 29

And yet if employees with the tacit knowledge to train those more useful tools suspect their employers' motives, they won't have much incentive to co-operate... (a piece I wrote this last week explored this a bit ft.com/content/5ef267…)

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