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Will AI destroy civilization in the near future? (with Connor Leahy)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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AI and the Risk to Humanity

The first common counter argument that I hear people make when they just learned about this topic of AI and potentially posing a risk to all humanity is they say, well, it's really not that big a risk because if it starts doing dangerous stuff, we'll turn it off. So let's go through some common counter arguments to the view you're giving. And so it's quite funny. I'll give you the old school answer to this question and I'm going to give you the new school of answer. The robot isn't because it has a will to live or because it has, you know, some kind of consciousness or anything like that. But in our modern world, post GPT

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