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Can We Stop the AI Apocalypse? | Eliezer Yudkowsky

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

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How to Limit AI to Cure Alzheimer's

In theory, an AI is only created by the data that you give it. And you can limit it to doing certain things like curing Alzheimer's. Can you actually limit it in that way? Possibly. If you build a thing that is generally intelligent and train it on the entire internet, and then you specialize it back down to working on medicine, that is more dangerous than if you build something that never really knew what a human was or what the internet was. It'd be safer and it depends on how far you push it.

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