The Future of Artificial Intelligence and AGI Safety

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Exploring the potential for artificial intelligence to surpass human intelligence rapidly, the chapter discusses the historical perspective of human brain development, energy consumption differences, and the evolution from artificial general intelligence to artificial superintelligence. Emphasizing the need for careful management, the chapter delves into challenges in regulating tech companies, advocating for broad societal engagement, preparing for negative consequences, and promoting AGI safety research.

For decades, Shane Legg has anticipated the arrival of “artificial general intelligence” or AGI.

In other words: an artificial agent that can do all the kinds of cognitive tasks that people can typically do, and possibly more...

Now as the Chief AGI Scientist and a co-founder of Google DeepMind, he stands by that prediction and is calling on the world to prepare.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Shane’s path to becoming an early AI expert and the work he and his team are doing to prepare for the technological revolution ahead.

This episode was produced by Sam Paulson with music composed by Ramtin Arablouei. It was edited by John Isabella with research help from Carla Esteves. Our audio engineer was Cena Loffredo.

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