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#168: Orwell 2.0 (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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The Existential Risk of AI

This week, we revisited the conversation that was being had by people who think about AI and existential risk. We talked about a taxonomy last week of different levels of horror. Malevolent is one of your... You got... Badly aligned AI that isn't malevolent, but follows instructions maybe too literally. The paperclip maximizer. That's an existential threat of its own. And then the third layer was the derangement of the humans with no preparedness for how one thinks about what it knows,. What it doesn't know, what effect it's having on what people think is true.

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