In a small room in San Diego last week

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I was in town for NeurIPS, one of the largest AI-research conferences, and Tegmark had invited me, along with five other journalists

congrats to this author on getting a business trip to San Diego during December. I bet it was nice and warm.

it seems like this is a pretty typical piece of access journalism:

The place to be, if you could get in, was the party hosted by Cohere…

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With the help of a researcher friend, I secured an invite to a mixer hosted by the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, the world’s first AI-focused university, named for the current UAE president.

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On the roof of the Hard Rock Hotel…

leading to a “conclusion” pretty typical of access journalism:

It struck me that both might be correct: that many AI developers are thinking about the technology’s most tangible problems while public conversations about AI—including those among the most prominent developers themselves—are dominated by imagined ones.

what if the critics and the people they’re criticizing are both correct? I am a very smart person who gets paid to write for The Atlantic.