Tuesday, April 18, 2023

This is crazy talk about AI risk

Is AI an Existential Threat? A Debate. | Robert Wright, Roko Mijic, and Alexander Campbell

From the program notes:

0:00 How Roko and Alex wound up debating on the Nonzero Podcast
5:05 Could near-term AI disruption be worse than Covid?
13:18 Is AI an existential threat?
25:31 How the sci-fi apocalypse scenario might unfold
36:42 How is a renegade AI like a man wearing a condom?
47:06 Why would an AI want to kill us?
55:47 How the Cold War makes AI more dangerous
1:09:49 Roko and Alex make final statements before Overtime

Robert Wright is an interesting guy. I've been following his podcasts since the early days at Blogging Heads. Before that I read him in The New Republic and I read his book, NonZero. But he was in over his head trying to host this debate.

[And yes, it's that Roko.]

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