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AI Pathways: Two Futures for AI
Explore scenarios of a world shaped by controllable Tool AI and one driven by decentralized acceleration (d/acc). Two positive, realistic visions for our AI future.
Explore scenarios of a world shaped by controllable Tool AI and one driven by decentralized acceleration (d/acc). Two positive, realistic visions for our AI future.
We focus on what’s possible through technological progress and the decisions we make about it.
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“I think when many people hear optimism or hope, they think of this kind of passive variety where it's let's just sit back and let's hope that things will turn out well. And to be clear, that's not my message. If we just sit back, things won't turn out well. But it's this kind of active hope or optimism that there is the potential for us to make the world a much much better place and we should be very determined to do that."
on the Existential Hope Worldbuilding course
"There isn't some mysterious force that's just guaranteed to make things better and better. That's not the way the universe works. In fact, quite the contrary, the universe tries to grind us down. And if we've made progress, it's because of human efforts and always pushing back against a number of forces."
on the Existential Hope Podcast
"When you are speculating about and describing a different way things could be, it makes you more willing [...] and eager to demand things that have never existed, but that we can imagine, discuss, combine, and envision."
on the Existential Hope Podcast
"Optimism is not what I call blind optimism. It is not the theory that things will go right when they look like they will go wrong and vice versa. Instead, it is because what will happen depends on our choices and knowledge, and from that there is no reason to give up on any problem."
on the Existential Hope Podcast
"I think that what's going to happen is ultimately up to us. And I think even more important than positivity, or negativity is a sense of agency, a sense that it's up to us to decide and to do our best to make it a positive future."
on the Existential Hope Podcast
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