Coexistence of Humans & AI

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 9 February 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Artificial Intelligence, while still limited to only the most simplistic computers and robots, is beginning to emerge and will only grow smarter. Can humanity survive it's own creations and learn to coexist with them? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/tz8EBU01sIA Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Coexistence of Humans & AI Episode 224a; February 9, 2019 Written by: Isaac Arthur Jerry Guern Editors: Daniel McNamara Darius Said Keith Blockus Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music by Aerium https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ "Visions of Vega" "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" "Waters of Atlantis" "Civilizations at the End of Time" See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,
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0:28.0	using the link in the description.
0:30.7	In our era, we are very concerned about how the rise of artificial intelligence will affect
0:35.5	our lives in society, but could there
0:37.8	come a point where we will have to care about how our actions affect them?
0:41.6	One of the most exciting and possibly troubling areas of development in the computer
0:51.9	age is the rise of artificial intelligence.
0:55.1	Can humans make something as smarter, smarter than ourselves? And if we do, how do we keep
1:00.3	it from wiping us out? Or worse, from turning us into a disenfranchised minority in a two-species
1:06.3	civilization that we started? What happens when our tools want to be treated with respect and allowed to make decisions
1:12.9	of their own?
1:14.5	This inevitably brings up the notion of control, safeguards, and overrides we might build
1:18.8	into AIs, but those avenues also inevitably bring up concerns about ethics.
1:24.3	The more intelligent AI becomes, the more we worry about keeping control, and the
1:28.8	more like slavery the whole arrangement becomes. That, along with a literal or accidental
1:34.0	threat they represent to humans, lead some to think of AI as a sort of Pandora's box
1:38.6	that should be put aside and never opened. But is this caution truly necessary, should
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