Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt "My own opinion is that we’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we are not organized to do it and yes the needs in this area [AI] will be a problem. But I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem than constraining it.”
This seems to be a fairly prevalent sentiment among the tech crowd.
It's probably impossible to separate the self-serving bullshitting from the actual tech-utopianism beliefs.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/eric-schmidts-risky-bet-on-ai-and
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