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#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Aim in a Box Thought Experiment

Intrinet: Anyone who's building something that stands a chance of becoming superintelligent should be building it in a condition where it can't get out into the wild. Neeldon grass tyson says, well, then i'll just take out a gun and shoot it or unplug it. Why is this a iin box picture, not a stable as people think? Well, i'd say that neil de grastyson is failing to to respect the ai's intelligence to the point of asking what he would do if he were inside a box a with somebody pointing a gun at him. And he's smarter than the thing on the outside of the box.

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