The Horror Story of Homo Sapiens

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"This is a much better horror story than then Eric's been able to trace out in the first minute, two, three minutes," he says. "I think it's very reasonable to say that there should be some sort of input from the rest of humanity" He adds: "When you go to build things that are equally intelligent as a human, I do not think that that's unreasonable"

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.