There are many reasons why I was deeply disappointed that Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos chose to kill the paper’s editorial endorsing Kamala Harris as a presidential candidate. There is nothing but the fact that And this election coincides with one of the biggest scientific turning points in human history: the birth of artificial general intelligence (AGI). AGI is likely to emerge within the next four years, and the next president will need to put together a global coalition to increase productivity. , safely and compatiblely managing computers that will soon have minds of their own, better than ours.
Donald Trump, who failed to even appoint a scientific advisor until more than a year and a half after taking office, is neither intellectually nor temperamentally suited to assemble such a global alliance. On the one hand, the administration hastened the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, but on the other hand, it faced a backlash from conservative anti-vaccination groups, which led to doubts about its use on the other hand.
Today, President Trump’s top priority is not to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities that the United States has by leading the use of AGI or by building a global coalition to govern AGI, but by asking allies to The idea is to impose tariffs and block the export of products such as cars and toys. Goods to the United States. The only technology Trump appears to be deeply interested in is his own version of X, Truth Social. In fact, Trump has described himself as a “very stable genius,” so perhaps he doubts that artificial intelligence better than his own even exists. .
Kamala Harris is up to this challenge, given her background in law enforcement, her ties to Silicon Valley, and the work she has already done on AI over the past four years, which is why I believe she is a candidate for the Presidency. This is the main reason for supporting it.
That said, one of the many oddities of the 2024 presidential election campaign was that it coincided with a largely ignored blooming of multidisciplinary artificial general intelligence that would change just about everything. That’s it.
That’s because multidisciplinary artificial intelligence isn’t just smarter than humans in a single domain. It mastered physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, Shakespeare, art history, and many other fields at the same time, more than any human before, and created patterns that cut across them all in ways never seen before. You will be able to see it. They can ask questions and give answers that humans could never do because humans could never do it.
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