WARNING By Sam Harris: ChatGPT Could Be The Start Of The End. AI "Could Destroy Us, The Internet And Democracy"

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

In this new episode Steven sits down with philosopher, neuroscientist, podcast host and author Sam Harris.

In 2004, Sam published his first book, ‘The End of Faith’, this stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 33 weeks and won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He has gone on to author 5 New York Times bestselling books published in over 20 languages. In 2009, Sam obtained his Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2013, he began the ‘Waking Up’ podcast which covers subjects from meditation to AI. Sam is also the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society.

In this conversation Sam and Steven discuss topics, such as:

How to change peoples beliefs
Why he is not optimistic about AI
How to live an examined life
Why you become what you pay attention to
The reason the mind is all you really have moment by moment
Why AI is not aligned with human wellbeing
How it is too late to turn back the progression of AI
The danger of misinformation
Why we’re going to have to abandon the internet

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Artificial intelligence is superhuman.
0:02.2	It is smarter than you are,
0:03.9	and there's something inherently dangerous
0:06.2	for the dumber party in that relationship.
0:09.2	You just can't put the genie back in the bottle.
0:11.9	Damn Harris!
0:12.8	Neuroscientist philosopher
0:14.3	with the podcaster.
0:15.6	He goes into intellectual territory
0:18.2	where few others dare tread.
0:20.4	Six years ago, you dare to talk.
0:22.4	The gains we make in artificial intelligence
0:25.0	could ultimately destroy us.
0:26.5	If you were objective is to make humanity happy,
0:29.2	and there was a button placed in front of you,
0:31.1	and it would end artificial intelligence.
0:33.6	What would you do?
0:35.0	Well, I would definitely pause it.
0:37.6	The idea that we've lost the moment
0:39.5	to decide whether to hook our most powerful AI to everything.
0:42.8	It's just, oh, it's already connected to the internet.
0:46.7	Got millions of people using it.
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