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Should the world slow down AI?
Deciding to slow a race raises the question of who can bind whom, and toward what end.
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Half your office has started using the new tool, and you have doubts about it. You could hold out, but your work would look slow beside everyone else's, and your doubts wouldn't slow anyone else down. The question is whether the world should do together what you can't do alone.
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