Unleashing Superintelligent AI: Risks and Challenges

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The chapter discusses the potential dangers and challenges associated with creating superintelligent AI, highlighting the risks of malevolent actors using advanced technology for harm. It delves into the implications of AI surpassing human intelligence and ethical boundaries, raising urgent concerns about addressing these risks. The conversation also touches on the transition from AI as a tool to an entity capable of autonomous decision-making and the complexities of measuring human-level intelligence in AI systems.

Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and author of a new book titled AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:12) – Existential risk of AGI
(15:25) – Ikigai risk
(23:37) – Suffering risk
(27:12) – Timeline to AGI
(31:44) – AGI turing test
(37:06) – Yann LeCun and open source AI
(49:58) – AI control
(52:26) – Social engineering
(54:59) – Fearmongering
(1:04:49) – AI deception
(1:11:23) – Verification
(1:18:22) – Self-improving AI
(1:30:34) – Pausing AI development
(1:36:51) – AI Safety
(1:46:35) – Current AI
(1:51:58) – Simulation
(1:59:16) – Aliens
(2:00:50) – Human mind
(2:07:10) – Neuralink
(2:16:15) – Hope for the future
(2:20:11) – Meaning of life