Steve Wozniak, without whom I wouldn’t be typing this on a Mac, has now joined the growing group of tech pioneers (most recently his erstwhile arch-rival Bill Gates) who feel that we shouldn’t dismiss concerns about future AI developments. Interestingly, he says that he had long dismissed the idea that machine intelligence might outstrip human capability within decades, but that recent progress has caused him to start considering this possibility:

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