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#324 - Debating the Future of AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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AI Will Decide to Kill Humanity

Some people assume that as intelligence scales, we're going to magically get ethics along with it. And while there's some data points with respect to how humans behave, you just mentioned one in a few minutes ago, it's not strictly true even for humans. It could just be that they begin doing things that are not in our well-being,. Because they're not taking it into account as a primary concern. So the difference between biological and non-biological substrate were the crucial variable here, but there's no reason to think it's a crucial variable where intelligence is concerned.

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