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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Risks & The Metacrisis

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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The Ethics of AI

An asymmetric agent is capable of exploiting your sense of intentionality. If we try to align it with the interest of a nation-state that can drive arms races with other ones and other nation-states in war, that's not good. The topic of alignment is actually an incredibly deep topic. It gets to a very philosophic issue, which is the kind of is-awt issue. And so when we have tech that is powerful enough to do pretty much anything, what should be guiding us? We're really fucking powerful at saying what is," he says.

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