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• Historically, AI was a tool, like any other technology. Whether it was good or bad was up to the user of that tool.
• You can use a hammer to build a house or kill someone.
• The hammer is not in any way making decisions about it.
• With advanced AI, we are switching the paradigm
  • **from tools
  • to agents**.
• The software becomes capable of making its own decisions, working independently, learning, self-improving, modifying.
• How do we stay in control?
• How do we make sure the tool doesn’t become an agent that does something we don’t agree with or don’t support?
• Maybe something against us