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What, if anything, do AIs understand? (with ChatGPT Co-Creator Ilya Sutskever)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Potential Dangers of AI

I tend to divide the potential dangers from AI up into three categories. One is misapplication or bad application of narrow AI like we have today. The second category I think about are ways that AI could enhance the power of one group over all other groups such as an authoritarian regime using, you know, AI's that monitor every person in the population. And then the third category of AI dangers I think aboutAre potential dangers from uncontrolled AI like AI if one day we make AI's that are really smarter than humans. If not properly controlled, those systems themselves can cause great danger.

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