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The danger isn't that the AI will gain sapience and decide to kill everyone, it's that people will assume that because an LLM could generate a reasonable overview of a large corpus of texts it can also drive a car, manage the power grid, detect l33t cyborhackors, calculate the optimum price for treasury securities, manage my retirement account or add numbers together.

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The leaders who have nearly killed us all so far never demonstrated math skills. I'd be more worried that it gets Altman's weasel skills.

Having worked in government, I can assure you (most) democratically elected leaders can do math. And often hire people who are much better at math than they are. What you may be observing is the assumption the electorate isn't paying attention and can't do math. And for the most part it seems they aren't and they can't.

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