AI Won’t Really Kill Us All, Will It?

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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For months, more than a thousand researchers and technology experts involved in creating artificial intelligence have been warning us that they’ve created something that may be dangerous. Something that might eventually lead humanity to become extinct. In this Radio Atlantic episode, The Atlantic’s executive editor, Adrienne LaFrance, and staff writer Charlie Warzel talk about how seriously we should take these warnings, and what else we might consider worrying about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Hannah Rosen, and this is Radio Atlantic.
0:08.9	I remember when I was a little kid being alone in my room one night watching this movie
0:13.2	called The Day After.
0:14.7	It was about nuclear war, and for some absurd reason it was airing on regular network TV.
0:20.9	Oh, bad.
0:21.9	Down here.
0:22.9	I can't even breathe.
0:23.9	Now listen, Denise.
0:24.9	You get a hold of yourself now.
0:25.9	I particularly remember a scene where a character named Denise, my best friend's name
0:29.6	was Denise, runs panicked out of her family's nuclear fallout shelter.
0:39.8	It was definitely extra, but also to teenage me genuinely terrifying.
0:47.1	This very particular blend of scary ridiculous, which I hadn't experienced since, until
0:54.1	a couple of weeks ago.
0:55.8	When someone sent me a link to this YouTube video, an interview with Paul Cristiano, who's
1:00.7	an artificial intelligence researcher.
1:03.3	The most likely way we die involves not AI comes out of the blue and kills everyone,
1:07.2	but involves we have deployed a lot of AI everywhere, and you can kind of just look and be like,
1:10.6	oh yeah, if for some reason God forbid all these AI systems were trying to kill us, they
1:14.3	would definitely kill us.
1:19.5	Cristiano was talking on this podcast called Bankless, and then I started to notice other
1:24.1	major AI researchers saying similar things.
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