#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink

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🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with Eliezer Yudkowsky about the nature of intelligence, different types of AI, the "alignment problem," IS vs OUGHT, the possibility that future AI might deceive us, the AI arms race, conscious AI, coordination problems, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Today I'm speaking with LeAzre Udkowski.
0:19.9	LeAzre is a decision theorist and computer scientist at the Machine Intelligence Research
0:24.3	Institute in Berkeley.
0:26.3	He is known for his work on technological forecasting.
0:30.6	His publications include a chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, titled
0:36.4	the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, which he co-authored with Nick Bostrom.
0:41.1	And LeAzre's writing has been extremely influential online, especially.
0:45.7	He's had blogs that have been read by the smart set in Silicon Valley for years.
0:53.4	Many of those articles were pulled together in a book titled Rationality from AI to Zombies,
0:58.7	which I highly recommend.
1:01.0	And he has a new book out, which is inadequate equilibria, where and how civilizations
1:06.2	get stuck.
1:08.4	And as you'll hear, LeAzre is a very interesting first principles kind of thinker.
1:15.3	Of those smart people who are worried about AI, he is probably among the most worried.
1:22.6	And his concerns have been largely responsible for kindling the conversation we've been
1:28.6	having in recent years about AI safety and AI ethics.
1:33.4	He's been very influential on many of the people who have made the same worried noises
1:39.8	I have in the last couple of years.
1:42.4	So in today's episode, you're getting it straight from the horse's mouth.
1:46.4	And we cover more or less everything related to the question of why one should be worried
1:52.9	about where this is all headed.
1:56.1	So without further delay, I bring you LeAzre Yudkowski.
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