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The Changing State of Church and State (with Noah Feldman)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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The Importance of Preserving Our Existence

In a 2022 survey of AI researchers, nearly half said that there was a 10% or greater chance that AI would eventually produce an extremely bad outcome along the lines of human extinction. It's really very unusual if you think about it for people who are at the forefront of developing a new technology that is being let loose in the wild to say that they think there's a reasonable probability of it destroying everything around us. Do you think back during the Manhattan Project and when the Soviets were trying to get the bomb, if we had polled nuclear scientists, would we have a better or worse poll than this?

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