Cross-posted with light edits from Otherwise.

I think of us in some kind of twilight world as transformative AI looks more likely: things are about to change, and I don’t know if it's about to get a lot darker or a lot brighter.

Increasingly this makes me wonder how I should be raising my kids differently.

What might the world look like

Most of my imaginings about my children's lives have them in pretty normal futures, where they go to college and have jobs and do normal human stuff, but with better phones.

It's hard for me to imagine the other versions:

A lot of us are killed or incapacitated by AI
More war, pandemics, and general chaos
Post-scarcity utopia, possibly with people living as uploads
Some other weird outcome I haven’t imagined

Even in the world where change is slower, more like the speed [...]

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Outline:

(00:22) What might the world look like

(01:17) When?

(01:48) Is it even ok to have kids?

(04:02) In the meantime

(04:32) What skills or mindsets will be helpful?

(05:50) How much contact with AI?

(06:37) What we say to them

(07:11) CS Lewis in 1948

(07:46) Related writing

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First published:
February 15th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cyqrvE3dk5apg54Sk/raising-children-on-the-eve-of-ai

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Raising children on the eve of AI” by juliawise

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