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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Control Problem in Systems

The pause button more generally you can call that the control problem I don't actually like the term control problem because it sounds kind of controlling and alignment not control. We currently in a lot of systems we design we do have an off switch, but they're not smart enough to prevent you from pressing the off switch. The philosophical concept of an off switch doesn't make any sense as well no the off switch makes sense they're just not opposing your attempt to pull the off switch parenthetically so be nice here.

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