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Ethan Mollick Says Early AI Forecasters Are Now Rich or Powerful

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Ethan Mollick said a small group of people accurately predicted today’s AI developments a decade ago and that many of them are now very rich, powerful or both. He pointed to Kevin Roose’s The AGI Chronicles as showing those predictions, contrasting their foresight with the sense among many people that current AI developments came out of nowhere.

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  1. Ethan Mollick · X
    Ethan Mollick Says Some People Predicted Today’s AI Developments a Decade Ago

    Given how out-of-nowhere it seems to many, it is astonishing that there was a small group of people who predicted with remarkable accuracy everything that is happening in AI today a decade ago (@kevinroose shows this in The AGI Chronicles). Many are now very rich and/or powerful

  2. Ethan Mollick · X
    Ethan Mollick Says Some People Predicted Today’s AI Developments a Decade Ago

    Given how out of nowhere it seems to many, it is astonishing that a small group of people predicted with remarkable accuracy everything happening in AI today a decade ago (@kevinroose shows this in The AGI Chronicles). Many of them are now very rich and/or powerful.

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