Zvi Mowshowitz on AI and the Dial of Progress

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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The future of AI keeps Zvi Mowshowitz up at night. He also wonders why so many smart people seem to think that AI is more likely to save humanity than destroy it. Listen as Mowshowitz talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the current state of AI, the pace of AI's development, and where--unless we take serious action--the technology is likely to end up (and that end is not pretty). They also discuss Mowshowitz's theory that the shallowness of the AI extinction-risk discourse results from the assumption that you have to be either pro-technological progress or against it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	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.
0:21.6	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.
0:29.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today's June 27, 2023.
0:39.8	My guest is Sv.
0:41.8	Moshewitz.
0:42.8	His sub-stack is don't worry about the vase.
0:46.2	It is a fantastic, detailed, in-depth, compendium every week and sometimes more than once a week
0:52.4	about what is happening in AI and elsewhere.
0:56.2	Our topic for today is what is happening in AI and elsewhere, particularly a piece that
1:00.7	you wrote recently.
1:01.7	We will link to called the Dial of Progress, which by itself, regardless of its application
1:06.7	to AI, I found very interesting.
1:08.0	We're going to explore that in our conversations.
1:10.8	Sv, welcome to econtalk.
1:12.2	I'm honored to be here.
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