
#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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Is There a Relationship Between Intelligence and Values?
If we do continue to define elligence as an ability to meet your goals, well, then we can be agnostic as to what those goals are. I think there's certain goals and certain things that we may become smarter and smarter with respect to like human well being. These are places where intelligence does converge with other kinds of value laden qualities of a mind. But generally speaking, they can be kept apart for a very long time. So you're just talking about an ability to turn matter into useful objects, or extract energy from the environment to do the same. And it just seems like there's no law of nature that would prevent an intelligent system from doing that.
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