BONUS – The Google AI Sentience Psyop with Ryan Cristian
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Whitney Webb
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🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 104 minutes
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In this bonus podcast of a video interview, Ryan and Whitney discuss the likely motives behind the claim that an AI at Google is "sentient" and has a "soul", including how it benefits the narratives within the new book co-written by Henry Kissinger and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt - "The Age of AI”.
Originally published 07/14/22.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Last American Bagabond. I have a very exciting show plan for you today, something I've been looking forward to discussing with Whitney Webb, coming back after lots of extensive work on her book. |
| 0:11.0 | I wanted to talk about some interesting research that she was involved in. |
| 0:14.6 | Apologies for the out of focus. I don't know where that came from. There we go. |
| 0:18.7 | A really important discussion, a really important research you've been working on |
| 0:21.5 | on something that many of you might have seen in regard to an engineer claiming to have, |
| 0:26.8 | that Google essentially has an essentialian AI that they then come out and claim isn't true. |
| 0:32.5 | And the discussion around all that information and what that means and whether or not this is |
| 0:36.3 | ultimately a play at setting up the idea of artificial intelligence and how that might be used for governance going |
| 0:42.3 | forward, something that really obviously caught our attention. And I'm excited to have Whitney |
| 0:46.9 | back on to discuss this. How are you today, Whitney? Always good. Hey, I'm recovering from a nasty cold. |
| 0:53.1 | But other than that, I'm all right. |
| 0:52.3 | Good to see you again. As you mentioned and as, oh, sorry, what's that? No, I was just saying I'm sure everyone's happy to have you here. So it's nice to see. Oh, yeah. Well, I've been gone for a while, as you mentioned, because I had a book to write. And yeah, it's pretty much written, which is really cool. hopefully get my life back kind of soon. |
| 0:53.5 | That'd be nice. |
| 1:12.1 | But... and yeah, it's pretty much written, which is really cool. Hopefully get my life back kind of soon. |
| 1:13.3 | That'd be nice. |
| 1:15.4 | But, yeah. |
| 1:22.7 | So, like, while, you know, I was doing the book, obviously stuff has been happening, right? |
| 1:35.3 | So this is one of those things I felt like was important to discuss because the way I look at this type of stuff going out, like this whole is Google AI sentient story that came out. |
| 1:43.1 | I wasn't really seeing a certain perspective that I think is the accurate perspective being put out there so much. And I've done a lot of work for TLAB and elsewhere about AI |
| 1:47.6 | and the effort by some of these transhumanist guys and other people like that |
| 1:53.2 | to really push through like AI sentience and or the claim, you know, |
| 1:58.1 | the singularity, this weird group of people who are very prominent, |
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