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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Probability of AI Escapeing the Box Before Solving the Alignment Problem

We have had a pandemic on this planet with the fueling people dead, which we may never know whether or not it was a lab leak because there was definitely cover up. The same people who exported gain of function research on coronaviruses to the Wuhan Institute of Virology after it gained a function are now getting more grants to do more research in that area. Maybe we do better in this than in AI, but like this is not something we cannot take for granted that there's going to be an outcry.

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