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#312 - The Trouble with AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Failure Mode of the YouTube Algorithm

I think the biggest one is this assumption that in fact, there's a coherent sense in which humans have preferences about the future and that these are autonomous. And if you start from moral axioms, they don't allow trade offs. I want people to read through the book and the papers and critique them and say, look, here's a failure mode that's consistent with what you're proposing but things could still go wrong.

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