Don’t Fall for the Longtermism Sales Pitch w/ Émile P. Torres
Tech Won't Save Us
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Is There a Future for Artificial General Intelligence?
Many people think that we're on the cusp of creating artificial general intelligence. And many accept this argument that was most extensively delineated in Nick Bostrom's 2014 book, Superintelligence. As soon as you get AGI, that system is gonna realize, well, if I'm smarter, then I can do whatever I'm supposed to do much better. So it will have an incentive to try to modify its source code in order to increase its cognitive abilities and problem solving abilities. Once you get ASI, artificial superintelligence, the future may be completely out of our control. There may be no way to influence its decisions and its behaviors once it exists.
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