Julia Wise, a mother of three in Boston, published an essay last February that articulated a new kind of parenting anxiety. Titled “Raising Children on the Eve of AI,” it set out to answer a pressing question that no best-selling child-rearing gurus had asked.
“I feel a bit like we’re preparing children to be good blacksmiths or shoemakers in 1750 when the factory is coming,” she wrote.
“The families around us are still very much focused on the track of do well in school get into a good college have a career have a nice life.” That reality, she suggested, would expire within her children’s lifetimes.
Wise and her husband, Jeff, think about this stuff a lot. They are part of a community, the Effective Altruists, that has spent years gaming out different AI scenarios, both the rosy and the highly destructive.
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