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SPEAKER_02 compares the potential reinterpretation of an AI specification to the way people with differing views have shaped the Constitution into a form its founders might not recognize.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“But just as people with different views of the Constitution have managed to get it into a shape that probably the founders would not have recognized,”
“so the AI will be able to say,”
“well, this peck refers to the general welfare here.”Play from 2:00:34Report a misattribution
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