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Smarter Does Not Mean Nicer

It is a mistake to assume that building something very smart will make it automatically nice; the historical correlation between humans becoming smarter, more powerful, and somewhat nicer is not an intrinsic, reliable link that transfers to artificial intelligence.

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Speaker

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Evidence Quote

I thought that if you built something very smart it would automatically be nice because hey over the course of human history we'd gotten a bit smarter we'd gotten a bit more powerful we'd gotten a bit nicer I thought these things were intrinsically tied together

Source

434 - Can We Survive AiMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:10:11 AM

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