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#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Importance of Robust Off Switches in AGI Systems

The sound escapes from whichever system you've built the almighty lever into and copies itself somewhere else so your answer to that research question is no obviously yeah but I don't know if that's a hundred percent answer. If it gets if it gets that part of hand then like yes pull the plugin and everything is running on  I'm not saying this is guaranteed I'm saying it's not zero probability it's an interesting research question. Is it possible when you're slow and stupid to design a slow and stupid system that is impossible to mess with the aliens being as stupid as they are have actually put you on Microsoft Azure cloud servers instead of this hypothetical person box? That's what happens

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