Raising children on the eve of AI

Cross-posted with light edits from Otherwise.



I think of us in some kind of twilight world as transformative AI looks more likely: things are about to change, and I don’t know if it's about to get a lot darker or a lot brighter.

Increasingly this makes me wonder how I should be raising my kids differently.

What might the world look like

Most of my imaginings about my children's lives have them in pretty normal futures, where they go to college and have jobs and do normal human stuff, but with better phones.

It's hard for me to imagine the other versions:

• A lot of us are killed or incapacitated by AI
• More war, pandemics, and general chaos
• Post-scarcity utopia, possibly with people living as uploads 
• Some other weird outcome I haven’t imagined

Even in the world where change is slower, more like the speed [...]



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First published:
February 15th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cyqrvE3dk5apg54Sk/raising-children-on-the-eve-of-ai

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