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The movie, Oppenheimer, about the making of the nuclear bomb opened last week.

I don't know if we can be trusted. What's such a weapon?

The subject matter has spurred an unavoidable comparison with, well, yes, Barbie, but also artificial

intelligence. Leaders at companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have explicitly framed the risks of

the developing technology in those terms. While historical accounts of the Manhattan project have

become required reading among some AI researchers, that's according to Dylan Matthews,

a senior correspondent at Vox who recently wrote about the parallels.

The main one, which might not be obvious, is sort of potential for harm. And I think now we look

at nuclear weapons and we see just a wholly negative thing, but nuclear fission in terms of nuclear

power was really new too. That hadn't been done before. And so, nuclear looked like a real

sort of double-edged sword that could give and take. And I think AI has a lot of promise,

but it also were creating a new sort of intelligence system that we don't really understand,

and we don't know why it does the things it does. We basically just feed it data. And so, I think

there's both a broad fear of what happens when you have a really intelligence system that we

don't fully know how to control. And a lot of more specific worries about what bad actors might

be able to do with a system like that. What are some of the important differences between these two

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