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#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Existential Risk of Artificial Intelligence

Humans are very experienced at creating new life forms. We've learned quite a lot about what the dangers are of allowing things to be unchecked, and it's why we then create systems of checks and balances in our government. So partly because of our previous experience and partly because of the different nature of a machine, I just don't feel anxious about it. It seems like there's all sorts of things that you could put into a machine that you would not be. But that that's just my, that's just where I am on that anxiety spectrum.

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