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Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

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CHAPTER

I Am Being an I Am Evil

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.

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