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#312 - The Trouble with AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Incentive Constitution

Gary Sick: There's two levels to answer. One is, okay, we need to do the work to ensure that certain parts of the system can never be overwritten. And there's a more hand-wavy argument, where someone says, why would I build an intelligent machine with objectives that conflict with my objectives? Sick: We're arguing about a fundamentally distinct category of AI system are the AI systems that we have right now. But if we don't do this work, we will just continue along the path which is building door three systems and having no possibility of learning what they should be doing.

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