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What do you and your guest make of perennially even-keeled superlectual Ezra Klein losing all equanimity in the face of an AI quickening that he fears is unavoidable, unknowable, and likely very, very bad? This isn't the dangers of misinformation or excessive suasion related to future generations of Chat GPT that he's discussed before and doesn't quite seem like Skynet either. Why does the tenor of that column seem so different from the conversation you two had?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/chatbots-artificial-intelligence-future-weirdness.html

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