The Race to Harness AI Safely

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We need to stay ahead of China and any other potential adversaries. This is quite immature technology and we don't understand how it works. If we are not careful, we are setting ourselves up for a lot of correlated failures. Right now, China is being as aggressive about regulating AI as they are about developing AI. The cyberspace administration of China in the last few weeks has actually published their AI guidelines,. which are very restrictive around how AI gets deployed in their society. Their research labs are still publishing lots of academic papers and apparently building this stuff but they're not deploying it as fast as possible into society. I think we need to ask which race are we in? We should be in

A few episodes back, we presented Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin’s talk The AI Dilemma. People inside the companies that are building generative artificial intelligence came to us with their concerns about the rapid pace of deployment and the problems that are emerging as a result. We felt called to lay out the catastrophic risks that AI poses to society and sound the alarm on the need to upgrade our institutions for a post-AI world.

The talk resonated - over 1.6 million people have viewed it on YouTube as of this episode’s release date. The positive reception gives us hope that leaders will be willing to come to the table for a difficult but necessary conversation about AI.

However, now that so many people have watched or listened to the talk, we’ve found that there are some AI myths getting in the way of making progress. On this episode of Your Undivided Attention, we debunk five of those misconceptions.

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