The Next Big Idea cover image

Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual Worlds: The Future of Sentience

The Next Big Idea

CHAPTER

The Exciting and Scary Sides of AI

I'm excited by the prospect that these AI systems might before long actually be people, possibly conscious beings with beliefs and desires of their own. But at the same time, it just raises so many obvious issues. Once you've got a system which is more intelligent than us, it'll be better able to achieve its goals than we are. And once that people, we actually have to take them into account in our moral calculations. So it's super exciting and super scary simultaneously.

00:00
Transcript
Play full episode

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts

Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
App store bannerPlay store banner