The Net Trickle Down Effect of AI Safety

5min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Sally Kohn: Real serious progress in AI is probably relegated. She says Microsoft, Google and Facebook are the only companies with access to data that can make a great search engine. But you could also do things like have people sign on, maybe voluntarily, under the condition of pressure - she says. Salkin: We don't want this thing to do any better than human on all the parts of it? And we don't just say, "We don't need some big cognitive benchmark?"

They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable, uncontrollable, and misaligned with human values. They're fast becoming as intelligent as humans--and they're exclusively in the hands of profit-seeking tech companies. "They," of course, are the latest versions of AI, which herald, according to neuroscientist and writer Erik Hoel, a species-level threat to humanity. Listen as he tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts why we need to treat AI as an existential threat.