Coming soon: Superintelligent AI

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Topher Forhecz

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4.4 • 350 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

In a new series of Tech Tonic, FT journalists Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill look at the concerns around the rise of artificial intelligence. Will superintelligent AI bring existential risk, or a new renaissance? Would it be ethical to build conscious AI? How intelligent are these machines anyway? The new season of Tech Tonic from the Financial Times, drops mid-November.

Presented by Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill. Senior producer is Edwin Lane and producer Josh Gabert-Doyon. Executive produced by Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.

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0:00.0	In a new season of Tectonic, the goal is to build a truly transformative AI system.
0:10.0	People have a near religious belief in the coming of effectively a computer God.
0:15.0	I'm John Thornhill.
0:17.0	And I'm Mademita Mergia.
0:19.0	AI companies want to build machines with superhuman levels of intelligence.
0:24.0	Some people say it's going to save the world.
0:27.0	Others say it will destroy it.
0:29.0	First time somebody builds AI that's powerful enough to actually be dangerous and
0:33.2	kill everyone they're gonna screw up and we're all going to die. Are we that stupid
0:36.6	to give unlimited power to an AI system that is gonna come up with a stupid idea of
0:40.8	killing all humans? Is super intelligent AI really just around the corner?
0:45.0	And if it is, how worried should we be?
0:48.0	It's an incredibly inhuman future, an explicitly joyless anti-human kind of future.
0:55.9	Subscribe now to a new season of Techtonic
0:58.8	coming soon from the Financial Times.

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