“Pausing” AI, as Hinton has previously suggested, or hoping a superintelligent deity takes us as adoptive children do not strike at the core; those are losing strategies. The core of the disruption to human life—and the natural world more broadly—lies in the technological substrate of industrial society. Not only does it destroy ways of life as quickly as it creates them, it stands to end it all as we know it.

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