@GergelyOrosz: Hard to believe but there was a time when smoking was promoted to be healthy / harmless, even, pregnant women encourage…
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The tweet compares the historical promotion of smoking as harmless to the current uncertainty about AI's impact on knowledge work, suggesting it may take decades to understand AI's effects.
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Hard to believe but there was a time when smoking was promoted to be healthy / harmless, even, pregnant women encouraged to smoke, 1920s-1950s. Took ~30 years (!!) to figure out how harmful it was.
How long will it take to figure out the impact of AI: how harmless, helpful or harmful is using AI all day for eg knowlege work?
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