I am uncomfortable with the fact that my children are going to grow up in a world where it is very possible that there are entities that are not just human being. There's also a sense which as I said it might be a horrific future because maybe these things really aren't conscious at all right so it might be one of the worst possible futures you can ever imagine. And for the first time as conversation I'll mention the word God, the concept of God. If you're believing person, as I am in some dimension, I take the idea of God seriously,. You believe that human beings have a special role to play in the world and being supplanted by something quote better is not a
They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable, uncontrollable, and misaligned with human values. They're fast becoming as intelligent as humans--and they're exclusively in the hands of profit-seeking tech companies. "They," of course, are the latest versions of AI, which herald, according to neuroscientist and writer Erik Hoel, a species-level threat to humanity. Listen as he tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts why we need to treat AI as an existential threat.