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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

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I Don't Think There'll Be a Leap With Autonomous Vehicles

I'm personally terrified about this, which is the engineering of viruses using machine learning. I just think that there's always going to be a closed loop supervision of humans before the AI becomes super intelligent. We are apes with egos who are massively constrained by very short-term self-interest even when we're contemplating some of the deepest and most interesting and most universal problems we could ever set our attention towards. It's on the other side of this switch.

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