#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
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🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 203 minutes
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EPISODE LINKS:
Eliezer's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky
LessWrong Blog: https://lesswrong.com
Eliezer's Blog page: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/eliezer_yudkowsky
Books and resources mentioned:
1. AGI Ruin (blog post): https://lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a-list-of-lethalities
2. Adaptation and Natural Selection: https://amzn.to/40F5gfa
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(05:19) - GPT-4
(28:00) - Open sourcing GPT-4
(44:18) - Defining AGI
(52:14) - AGI alignment
(1:35:06) - How AGI may kill us
(2:27:27) - Superintelligence
(2:34:39) - Evolution
(2:41:09) - Consciousness
(2:51:41) - Aliens
(2:57:12) - AGI Timeline
(3:05:11) - Ego
(3:11:03) - Advice for young people
(3:16:21) - Mortality
(3:18:02) - Love
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Elias Zaryyit Kowski, a legendary researcher, writer |
| 0:05.0 | and philosopher on the topic of artificial intelligence, especially superintelligent |
| 0:10.4 | AGI and its threat to human civilization. |
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