Sam Altman's Concerns About AI Safety

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Eric Liu: What would Sam Altman say about all these worries and open AI that just put out chat GPT. He says he'd start off by saying, "Oh you're exaggerating" And the way it's going to get worse is through this blurring of the line between humans and machines they'll have trouble telling them apart. Liu: Most people when they look at an equation like that, all they see is existential risk but we can be positive in one day maybe cure ourselves right?

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.