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How AI Will Reshape Public Opinion
LLMs are a kind of anti-social media. While social media has been democratizing, epistemically diverging, engagement-optimized, and performative, LLMs are technocratizing, epistemically converging, accuracy-optimized, and polite. While that makes LLMs sound like an extremely positive development, there are many unknowns about how the technology will affect the labor market, broader economy, and the balance of power in the world. The potential uses of advanced AI in military conflicts are extremely dangerous. AI companies should be held accountable for producing harmful products, as if we rely on market forces and the profit motive alone, there is little reason to believe that the technology will benefit humanity on net.
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