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Comment by Karen Hao
Technology journalist and author
This scale is unnecessary. You do not need this scale of AI and compute to realize the benefits. Indeed, if we really want AI to be broadly beneficial, we urgently need to shift away from this approach. [...] The kinds of AI systems that dominate our headlines and our imagination today, these large-scale general purpose systems like ChatGPT, represent the worst possible trade-offs in our portfolio of existing AI technologies.
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(2026)
27d ago
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Verification History
AI Verified
Verified via web search. WebFetch to news.mit.edu returned 403, but a targeted web search confirms the exact phrase 'represent the worst possible trade-offs in our portfolio of existing AI technologies' is attributed to Karen Hao discussing ChatGPT-style large-scale general purpose systems (Empire of AI / MIT discussion). Author attribution matches - Hao is a tech journalist and author of 'Empire of AI'. Vote 'against' on 'Build artificial general intelligence' aligns with the quote: Hao argues large-scale general-purpose AI (the path to AGI) is the worst trade-off and we should shift away from it. Year 2026 is current.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 15d ago
replying to Karen Hao