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It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

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CEO Sam Altman says AI is on the verge of unleashing boundless prosperity and radically improving human life.

He says Altman 's ideas about AI are textbook Silicon Valley mythmaking.

But despite the rhetoric, his products currently feel less like a glimpse of the future and more like the mundane, buggy present.

The project of techno-optimism, for decades now, has been to insist that if we just have faith in technological progress and free the inventors and investors from pesky regulations such as copyright law and deceptive marketing, then the marketplace will work its magic and everyone will be better off.

It's remarkable how similar Altman ’s rhetoric sounds to that of his fellow tech-optimists.

Remember, these technologies already have a track record.

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