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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Disadvantages of Optimization

Any goal, you know, almost any set of utility functions with a few narrow exceptions implies killing all the humans. The way to get the most of that thing is to put the universe into a state where there aren't humans. Is it possible to encode in the same way we think about it? That's not hard coded in, but more like deeper.

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