The essential idea of AI Benefits is simple: AI Benefits means AI applications that are good for humanity.
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Thus, for the rest of this series I will be focusing on the subset of AI Benefits that individuals could receive other than what markets would likely provide by default by actors not motivated by social benefit.
If non-market AI Benefits are a strict subset of AI Benefits, a phrase which essentially just means ‘good things from AI’ then this is not true by definition:
[B]y definition markets will generally not provide AI Benefits
Indeed, given the scale and efficiency of market production compared to philanthropy it is possible that markets might produce the vast majority of AI benefits.
If non-market AI Benefits are a strict subset of AI Benefits, a phrase which essentially just means ‘good things from AI’ then this is not true by definition:
Indeed, given the scale and efficiency of market production compared to philanthropy it is possible that markets might produce the vast majority of AI benefits.
Thanks! You are correct. Updated to clarify that this is meant to be “the subset of AI Benefits on which I am focusing”—i.e., nonmarket benefits.