Nobody Will Survive Superintelligence - AI Expert

Alex O'Connor Podcast 2 months ago

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Nate Soares is an American artificial intelligence author and researcher known for his work on existential risk from AI. In 2014, Soares co-authored a paper that introduced the term AI alignment, the challenge of making increasingly capable AI’s behave as intended. Nate is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California.

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- TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Is This an Exaggeration?
04:31 - What Is Unique About the Threat of AI?
11:28 - What is Superintelligence?
21:25 - From Chess Computers to Murderous Machines
27:52 - What Really Drives AI Systems?
44:29 - Evidence AI Is Already Turning Against Us
56:03 - How We Are Helping AI Take Over
01:01:21 - Why Would AI Seek Power or Control?
01:07:42 - Some Worst-Case AI Scenarios
01:18:38 - What Do We Do About This Now?
01:32:53 - How Has AI Changed in the Last Six Months?

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