@DavidSacks: The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion. But if we hand g…
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David Sacks warns that government control over AI development could lead to censorship and surveillance, referencing Orwell's 1984 and the ancient question of who guards the guardians.
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The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion.
But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens — as Orwell foretold in 1984?
This is the real alignment problem.
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Who will guard the guardians?
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
The oldest questions of human nature and authority don’t disappear in the AI age. They become newly relevant.
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