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I think the people who thought about these issues when they were purely theoretical got it right.

You need a “laws of robotics” to protect society from these type of technologies. The problem here is that the simplest answers to many problems tend to be the extreme ones.

Right wing people tend to get concerned about this because the fundamental premise of conservatism is to conserve traditional practices and values. It’s easier to say “no” in a scope based on those fundamental principles than to manage complexity in a more nuanced (and more capricious) scope.

This may be a technology category like medicine where licensing for specific use cases becomes important.



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