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The optimism of the gaps

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A new analysis on LessWrong suggests that people often suffer from a specific type of optimism bias when thinking about artificial intelligence. The author argues that individuals tend to assume progress is being made in the areas of AI safety or governance that they aren't personally monitoring. Instead, the piece suggests that if things look poorly managed in one domain, they are likely just as poorly handled in all others.

Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AhkHWwbvDzBZqtotH/the-opt...

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