The real unstoppable algorithm is capitalism. Capitalism is funding the exponential advancements in AI at Google, Facebook and other places. But it does so for

The real unstoppable algorithm is capitalism. Capitalism is funding the exponential advancements in AI at Google, Facebook and other places. But it does so for capitalism's purpose, the algorithms get better at grabbing our attention because attention=profit. Profit is the only goal that capitalism optimizes for. The only reason that AI will ever start destroying humans is if there's a profit motive. Which might very well happen at some point, but we should focus on the real motivation not the tools it uses. Capitalism won't give up powerful profit tools very easily. Sam's hope for worldwide coordination has not worked against climate change, capitalism sensed that threat and started attacking our political systems and propaganda channels and so far it has won that battle handily.