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Bernie Sanders: “Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human competitive…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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AGI, artificial general intelligence, is a potential successor species, end quote. In 2023, more than 1,000 leading AI experts, including people like Elon Musk, signed a letter warning that, quote, Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human competitive at general tasks. And we must ask ourselves, should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? (10:35–10:43)

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Asserts that current AI systems are competitive with humans in general tasks.

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