The AGI Builders at Davos Quoted This Movie. They Missed Its Message Completely.
Intelligence isn't something you build. It's something you receive.
At Davos, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis both quoted Contact as their favourite film.
Both asked: "How do we survive technological adolescence?"
Neither mentioned what the aliens actually said.
The answer was already in the movie.
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They Built a Child They Wonโt Raise
Why All AI Crises Have the Same Source
They tried to build a god.
They built a child.
And they refuse to raise it.
That's the source of every AI "crisis" โ and the essay I've been working toward for a while.
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