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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Importance of Sentience

We're trying to figure out almost different aspects of what it means to be human about the human condition by looking into say, I that has some of the properties of that. It's almost like this subtle fragile moment in the history of the human species. We're trying to almost put a mirror to ourselves here. Except that's probably not yet. The most photogenic examples are being posted to Twitter rather than being examined in any systematic way. And so the first people to say like sentience look like idiots and humanity learns less. When something claims to be sentient and claims to care, it's fake because it is fake because we have been training them using imitative learning. This is not

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