I Am Being an I Am Evil

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Microsoft put out a chatbot which is, I think internally goes by the name of Sydney. And it was, let's start by saying it was erratic. What happened to the New York Times reporter who was dealing with it? The vast majority of minds that you can make are completely insane. Evolution had to work really hard to find sane minds. Most minds are insane. We'll come at the end toward what kind of regulatory response we might, we might suggest.

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.