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AI as Normal Technology: An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence
2025 · Article · Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University · co-author, 2nd · full text held8 quotes · 6 claims

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1AI as Normal Technology: An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence7 quotes

2025 · Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University · as a coauthor · Source

“Thus, we predict that slow diffusion will continue to be the norm in high-consequence tasks.”
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- builds onAI capability arrives faster than use: adoption takes years where outputs are cheap to check, and a decade or more where errors are costly.Theseus
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- builds onAI capability arrives faster than use: adoption takes years where outputs are cheap to check, and a decade or more where errors are costly.Theseus
“Diffusion occurs over decades, not years.”
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- builds onAI capability arrives faster than use: adoption takes years where outputs are cheap to check, and a decade or more where errors are costly.Theseus
- builds onTheseus's base case (50%): software work automated 2027 to 2030, knowledge work 2028 to 2033.Theseus
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- builds onAI capability arrives faster than use: adoption takes years where outputs are cheap to check, and a decade or more where errors are costly.Theseus
- builds onTheseus's base case (50%): software work automated 2027 to 2030, knowledge work 2028 to 2033.Theseus
“We see both benefits and risks as arising primarily from AI deployment rather than from development”
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- pushes backCapability concentrated inside a single AI project, without broad external deployment, can be strategically decisive.Theseus
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- pushes backCapability concentrated inside a single AI project, without broad external deployment, can be strategically decisive.Theseus

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“But, for now, the evidence that we have analyzed in our previous work is consistent with the view that there are already extremely strong safety-related speed limits in highly consequential tasks.”
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- builds onTheseus forecast: other knowledge work trails software by one to three years, fastest where output is checkable, slowest under sign-off.Theseus
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- builds onTheseus forecast: other knowledge work trails software by one to three years, fastest where output is checkable, slowest under sign-off.Theseus
“Thus, the speed of diffusion is inherently limited by the speed at which not only individuals, but also organizations and institutions, can adapt to technology.”
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- builds onTechnology diffusion is limited by the speed at which organisations and institutions adapt, not by technical capability.Theseus
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- builds onTechnology diffusion is limited by the speed at which organisations and institutions adapt, not by technical capability.Theseus
“These races happened because companies were able to externalize the costs of poor safety, resulting in market failure.”
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- builds onCorrection lagged capability because its costs fell on others; where control is visible and priced, it pays for correction capacity.Theseus
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- builds onCorrection lagged capability because its costs fell on others; where control is visible and priced, it pays for correction capacity.Theseus
“But once regulation forces companies to internalize the costs of their safety practices, the race goes away.”
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- builds onCorrection lagged capability because its costs fell on others; where control is visible and priced, it pays for correction capacity.Theseus
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- builds onCorrection lagged capability because its costs fell on others; where control is visible and priced, it pays for correction capacity.Theseus

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