The ultimate risk of AI

Key takeaways:

• In the future, searching on Google may be replaced by asking Google a question and receiving a direct answer.

• Language models regulated by a governing body could narrow down information and ideas to acceptable speech.

• Maintaining the reputation and trustworthiness of a source of information is important to p

We think of censorship as control over what people can say. But the concept of emergence reminds us that human giants only “think” by way of conversation—which means that censorship is really control over what the giant can think. For a giant, censorship is mind control.