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🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Timestamps
0:00 - What Existential Risks Does AI Pose?8:57 - How AI Systems Lie to Us26:04 - Why We Should Be Worried About AI33:28 - What Does It Mean for AI System to “Want” Something?43:41 - AI Weapons and Nuclear Warfare48:57 - Where Should We Focus Our Resources?53:35 - What Policies Should We Enact?
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| 0:30.1 | You wrote The Precipice in 2019, I think. It came out in 2020. |
| 0:34.9 | And it's all about existential risks to humanity. You cover climate change, |
| 0:39.9 | nuclear war, you talk about pandemics, and you say at one point in that book, the case for |
| 0:46.4 | existential risk from AI, artificial intelligence, is clearly speculative. Indeed, it's the most |
| 0:53.0 | speculative case for a major risk in this book. |
| 0:57.0 | Is that still the case? |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, it's certainly less speculative now. Back in 2020, there were a lot of people who just wouldn't take it seriously at all. |
| 1:08.0 | So I wanted to point out that it is a contentious issue among the experts, unlike |
| 1:13.3 | some of these other risks where they've got a better idea about the probabilities and how |
| 1:17.9 | bad they could be. Some of other risks, such as super volcanic eruptions, you know, and |
| 1:24.0 | things, are somewhat contentious among the experts, but not at the level that |
| 1:28.2 | AI is, where it's contentious that these powerful systems will be built, and it's contentious |
| 1:34.0 | as to whether they threaten us. But with the statement that so many people signed, so many |
| 1:40.8 | leaders of the top labs, you know, suggesting that, well, stating that AI posed a |
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