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#323 - Science & Survival

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence

I think we've got to be open-minded about how long a civilization will last on the Earth. And that is a separate question from whether our electronic prodigy could survive. There's this concept in existential risk circles of a great filter that might account for where everyone is or isn't at the moment. I don't imagine there will be such rapid changes even if we have the possibility of genetic modification, because we are already adapted to habitat quite well.

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