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Ethan Mollick Says AI Companies’ Existential Risk Warnings Don’t Help Adoption
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The repeated argument that AI companies are talking about existential risks as a way of creating hype & inflating their stock prices has always been odd. Telling people your product may murder everyone does not, in fact, encourage people to adopt it or reduce regulatory risks. https://twitter.com/codytfenwick/status/2114941993897828365
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Ethan Mollick challenged the argument that AI companies warn about existential risks to generate hype and inflate their stock prices, saying such warnings discourage adoption and do not reduce regulatory risks. Mollick called the argument “odd,” reasoning that telling people a product could kill everyone would not encourage them to use it.
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