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Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Tech Mark's Life 3.0

Artificial intelligence holds incredible potential to bring about inarguably positive changes for humanity. The likely possible positive outcomes are so tempting and morally compelling that the urgency to think through the dangers is even more pressing than it first seems. Sam considers this issue of value alignment central to making any sense of AI. Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at Cal Berkeley, tries to imagine all the possible ways that having a genie or sovereign in front of us might go terribly wrong.

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