""I feel a bit like we're preparing children to be good blacksmiths or shoemakers in 1750 when the factory is coming," she wrote. "The families around us are still very much focused on the track of do well in school get into a good college have a career have a nice life." That reality, she suggested, would expire within her children's lifetimes."
"They are part of a community, the Effective Altruists, that has spent years gaming out different AI scenarios, both the rosy and the highly destructive. For a long time, those scenarios didn't feel applicable to their own lives. But as AI development has sped up, she and Jeff, who works in biosecurity and pandemic detection, have become more concerned about how their children (ages 4, 9, and 11) will fare."
Julia Wise and her husband Jeff worry about how their three children will fare as AI development accelerates. They belong to the Effective Altruists community that has modeled both positive and catastrophic AI scenarios. They now consider possibilities including shortened life expectancy from disasters, a post-scarcity utopia with universal basic income, and AI displacing most jobs that marginalizes human work. They fear risks ranging from AI enabling a bad actor to unleash a world-ravaging pathogen to children bonding with emotionally expressive superintelligences. They question traditional educational goals and parental preparation for rapid societal change.
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