Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Eliezer Yudkowsky insists that once artificial intelligence becomes smarter than people, everyone on earth will die. Listen as Yudkowsky speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts on why we should be very, very afraid, and why we're not prepared or able to manage the terrifiying risks of artificial intelligence.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.5	Today is April 16, 2023 and my guest is Elias Yudkowski.
0:42.3	He is the founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, the founder of the
0:46.7	less wrong blogging community, and is an outspoken voice on the dangers of artificial
0:52.1	general intelligence, which is our topic for today.
0:54.8	He has a welcome to econ talk.
0:57.2	Thanks for having me.
0:59.2	You recently wrote an article at time.com on the dangers of AI.
1:03.1	I'm going to quote Central Paragraph.
1:07.0	Quote, many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely
1:14.1	result of building a superhumanly smart AI under anything remotely like the current circumstances
1:21.4	is that literally everyone on earth will die.
1:25.3	Not as in maybe possibly some remote chance, but as in that is the obvious thing that would
1:31.5	happen.
1:32.5	It's not that you can't imprinseable survive creating something much smarter than you.
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