We can see a stellar instance of this view in the book Human Compatible by Stuart Russell. In this book, Russell mentions a group of researchers that announced that they don’t think human-level AI is possible. To this, he comments, “This is the first time serious AI researchers have publicly espoused the view that human-level or superhuman AI is impossible… It’s as if a group of leading cancer biologists announced that they had been fooling us all along: they’ve always known that there will never be a cure for cancer.”89 This view implies that you can only conduct serious AI research if you
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