A tip alleging a Silicon Valley conspiracy leads to a much bigger story: the race to build artificial general intelligence — within the next few years — and the factions vying to accelerate it, to stop it, or to prepare for its arrival.

FEATURING:

Mike Brock, Kevin Roose, Geoffrey Hinton, Connor Leahy, William MacAskill, Liv Boeree, Sam Harris, and Yoshua Bengio

LINKS:

Sam Harris 2016 TED Talk, Can We Build AI Without Losing Control Over It

Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence

Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast

Center for AI Safety

Hard Fork podcast

Geoffrey Hinton’s resignation coverage: Why the “godfather of AI” left Google to warn about existential risk

William MacAskill's book What We Owe the Future

Eliezer Yudkowsky's book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Liv Boeree's podcast: Win Win

CREDITS:

This episode of The Last Invention was reported and produced by Andy Mills, Gregory Warner, Andrew Parsons, Megan Phelps-Roper, Matthew Boll, Seth Temple Andrews, and Ethan Mannello. It is hosted by Gregory Warner

Music for this episode was composed by Scott Devendorf, Ben Lanz, Cobey Bienert, and Matthew Boll

The Last Invention artwork by Jacob Boll

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