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Stephen Davies - What Is Global Catastrophic Risk?

The Curious Task

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Artificial Intelligence Is the Biggest Threat

Artificial intelligence is the big one. Most of the people we spoke about earlier, working at various research institutes round the world, are really worried about it. The general consensus to the researches is that a human level artifical intelligence will be created within no more than forty years. This raises two possible risks. One is that this ai becomes sentient, in other words, it becomes self aware. It's much more likely you will have artificial intelligence which is incredibly powerful and very intelligent, but not self aware. We don't really know what self awareness is.

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