Jacob Ward's Warning | Are You Ready for Immoral A.I.?

The Don Lemon Show

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Should AI Have Boundaries? As AI becomes more powerful and more accessible, the debate over morality and responsibility is heating up. Journalist Jacob Ward joins us to explore the ethical minefield surrounding artificial intelligence. At the center of it all: Elon Musk’s Grok AI, which reportedly may include a model that will do anything it’s asked to do no matter how dangerous, unethical, or flat-out wrong. If you ask AI to do something harmful… and it says yes, who’s to blame? The user? The creator? The code? It’s not science fiction anymore...it’s here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Are you ready for the world of immoral AI?
0:33.6	Because it's coming.
0:34.9	Let me tell you. And before I get into why this is happening and why it's so
0:38.6	disturbing, let me talk to you a little bit about the idea of alignment and tell you a couple
0:42.6	stories about it. So alignment is this technical term that AI people use. And what they're
0:47.4	talking about is bringing human values into alignment with AI. Here's how hard that is. I was talking to people once at one of the big
0:56.9	AI companies, and they were telling me that internally they were grappling with the alignment
1:02.1	problem by talking about something that they called the heroin problem. It was a scenario they had
1:07.6	cooked up. So imagine this. You're the maker of an AI, like super assistant,
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