Matt Wolfe (speaker) argues for a cautious approach to advancing AI and technology — not pushing everything forward as fast as possible. He emphasizes empathy for people who fear job displacement, a desire to understand and mitigate harms, and the value of checks-and-balances between acceleration and restraint to avoid both catastrophic risk and complete stagnation.
If somebody is genuinely worried that this technology is taking their job, I want to understand why. I want to understand what we can do to sort of mitigate the damages that could be done from this. Like, I'm always going to come from that place of empathy, which is why I've never sort of identified with the E ACC movement is like, I don't necessarily think we should always be pushing everything forward as fast as possible. Like you mentioned, there's always people on both sides, which kind of creates a decent checks and balance to make sure one side doesn't go too far and I nukes the world, but also the other side doesn't go too far and technology stops advancing completely. Those checks and balances, I think, are a net positive overall.
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