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AI Can't Plant Corn (Yet)

commodities, globalization, jobs, and the dollar

kyla scanlon
Mar 30, 2023
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Tying AI into globalization, markets, and commodities

It seems as though AI has entered almost every conversation we have had recently. Everyone is talking about it, the tradeoff between safety and capacity, whose job it will take first, what it means for All-of-This.

And I am not qualified to opine at length about anything of those things!

So I’ll include some links and just some summaries of general thoughts I’ve been hearing as I lurk around, specifically focusing on how they connect with financial markets. I want to specifically focus on the interconnection of markets through -

  • Globalization

  • Commodities

  • Jobs

  • Dollar

That Letter Saying Things Should Slow Down

This is one of the main arguments around AI right now. A bunch of people got together and signed (or fake signed who really knows1) this document saying that ‘we believe things should really slow down right now as we are just blazing into the unknown’ a stance that is to be expected and Eliezer Yudkowsky was like “no actually end it all

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