Hello again and welcome back to The Last Invention, in our original eight-part series, one of the things that we wanted to make clear was that the people who are racing towards the development of AGI are not thinking of it as simply some new tool or new tech product.

The world, as you know, it is over. It's not about to be over. It's over.

AI is going to be better than almost all humans at almost all things. They believe that the thing

that they are right now making, it wouldn't be a computer program exactly, it wouldn't be a human

exactly. It would be this sort of digital supermind. We'll change the course

of human history. I've always believed that it's going to be the most important invention that

humanity will ever make. And that it's going to do that soon. It would be surprising to them if it took

more than about three years. And because of how high they believe the stakes are, they are engaged right now in what they

think may end up being the most important debate in human history.

The basic description I would give to the current scenario is, if anyone builds it, everyone

dies.

Why is all the worry about the technology going badly wrong?

And why are people not worried enough about it not happening?

Our job now, right now, whether you know you're up someone building it or someone who is

observing people build it or just a person living on this planet because this affects you too,

is to collectively figure out how we unlock this narrow path,

because it is a narrow path we need to navigate.

However, there was a perspective that was missing from our series,

and it's one that many of you listening out there have been writing to us,

requesting that we dive into, and that's the AI skeptic. Right now, there is so much hype

around AI. And because human beings have a pretty bad track record of predicting the future,

naturally, this is going to inspire some deep skepticism.

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