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Josh Hawley: “Left to itself, artificial intelligence will not choose…”

Featuring: Josh Hawley, Republican | U.S. Senate Missouri

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AI and America's Moral Covenant with Senator Josh Hawley

Published | Video Starts at 11:19

Or it can serve the liberty of license, the freedom of the belly and its passions, the freedom of the strong to take what they can and bend the weak to their will. Let me be blunt. Left to itself, artificial intelligence will not choose moral liberty. It will choose the passions. It will choose appetite. It will gather power into the fewest hands the world has ever seen and call the result progress. That is the rule of the strong over the weak. (11:19–11:28)

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Asserts that AI, if left unchecked, will prioritize base desires over moral considerations.

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