Quick summary
Given our decade-long experience using AI as part of how we serve clients,[1] we’ve been getting questions about the nature of AI and how it is likely to impact us. So we’ve written this trilogy of articles to explain the why, the how, and what to do about it as a CEO.
Part 1: The limits of AI
Will AI achieve general intelligence? Is there any limit to what AI can achieve?
We will see that considerations from the fields of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and technology each impose some provable limits to the capabilities of AI and how close these capabilities can come to true intelligence.
We will also find that, paradoxically, this increases rather than decreases the probability of humans ending up in servitude to AI.
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Part 2: How will AI impact us?
We will see that AI’s main impact won’t be a revolutionary new economic system. It will be a shift in power and wealth towards those who control AI resources, higher prices for everyone else, and, if nothing is done to prevent it, grave social problems.
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Part 3: Now what? What should CEOs do about AI
We will see that the name of the game is cash + experimentation.
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