Can We Stop the AI Apocalypse? | Eliezer Yudkowsky

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

Politics, Energy, Healthcare, News, World, Society & Culture, Regulations, Finance, America, Freedom

4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky makes the case for why we should view AI as an existential threat to humanity. Rep. Crenshaw gets into the basics of AI and how the new AI program, GPT-4, is a revolutionary leap forward in the tech. Eliezer hypothesizes the most likely scenarios if AI becomes self-aware and unconstrained – from rogue programs that blackmail targets to self-replicating nano robots. They discuss building global coalitions to rein in AI development and how China views AI. And they explore first steps Congress could take to limit AI’s capabilities for harm while still enabling its promising advances in research and development.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a co-founder and research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. Follow him on Twitter @ESYudkowsky

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	But all men are cranes.
0:04.0	Because I remember Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.3	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.9	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.9	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:22.2	There ain't no way of laughing.
0:24.1	What's up folks? So we actually haven't done a podcast on AI yet.
0:28.0	In the last six months, you've seen a lot of conversations about AI and chat GPT
0:32.1	and these amazing things that AI is doing.
0:35.0	Just the other day, my father-in-law said he had to go,
0:40.0	moderate a discussion with two AI experts.
0:44.4	And he's like, I don't even know what to ask.
0:46.0	I don't know why they're asking you to do this.
0:47.2	He's a former Navy admiral.
0:50.0	And so we said, well, why don't you go and chat GPT and ask chat GPT?
0:54.0	What kind of questions you should ask when moderating an AI discussion.
0:56.9	And that's what he did.
0:57.7	And he came up with some pretty good questions.
0:59.0	And I think he ended up using those questions.
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