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Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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How Do You Talk About Dangerous Software?

Dr Kissinger was one of the inventors of this whole doctrine when he was much younger. He would always start with a conversation where he figured he would start by telling them how many missiles we knew they had. And all of a sudden they stopped the meeting and hauled the general out because the general himself was not clear to know the information that the Soviet Union had. How do you get started? At least in nuclear you could count the number of warheads. So we have no language and diplomacy. We have no algorithms. We haveNo doctrine of how to discuss dangerous software. Now, I'll give you an example of spread. Imagine that these systems get so powerful that they're too dangerous to

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