... “The silent consensus is not consensus because people agree it is good,” Ball said. “It is consensus because people share the intuition that it is inevitable.” ...
“I expect incidents of this type to worsen in severity, scale, and speed over the coming months and years, and I expect that much of what we today know as frontier AI governance will be built in a state of crisis,” Ball said. ...
Ball argued that while the tech industry has ambitious visions for new AI technologies, it has given far less thought to how society will function alongside them. ...
Still, Ball acknowledged that his perspective could prove wrong. If autonomous AI companies begin to beat out human competition, he said, “many foundational tenets of liberalism may well have to go out the window.” ...
“We can become a new kind of man, not a transhuman, but a man expanded,” Ball said.
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