Noted Brain Genius Tyler Winklevoss Thinks Isaac Asimov Already Solved the AI Apocalypse
It’s all anyone seems to be talking about at the moment. Some people who work for the top AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI really think so. But don’t worry, because tech investor Tyler Winklevoss believes he found the answer.
- ▪It’s all anyone seems to be talking about at the moment.
- ▪Some people who work for the top AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI really think so.
- ▪But don’t worry, because tech investor Tyler Winklevoss believes he found the answer.
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It’s all anyone seems to be talking about at the moment. Will AI destroy humanity? Some people who work for the top AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI really think so. But don’t worry, because tech investor Tyler Winklevoss believes he found the answer. “You don’t need the government to tell you how to make AI safe,” Winklevoss wrote in a tweet on Tuesday. “These questions were asked and answered by Isaac Asimov in the 1940s. The frontier labs can hardcode Asimov’s Laws of Robotics into their models today. What are they waiting for?” Winklevoss, perhaps most famous for suing Facebook in the 2000s, is absolutely right that Asimov invented his own laws of robotics. But if you stop and think about what applying them to AI would mean, it doesn’t solve all our potential problems.
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