Connor Leahy on AGI and Cognitive Emulation
Future of Life Institute Podcast
The Demand for Safety
We are in a death race towards the bottom, creating towards a precipice at full speed. This is almost entirely by a very, very small number of people that are techno optimists and techno-utopians. And there is this myth among these people that they're like, oh, we have to do it. You know, people want it. It's just false. If you talk to normal people and you explain to them what these people believe, when they say AGI, they mean godlike AI. They mean a self-improving, non-human, incredibly powerful system that you take over the government can destroy the whole human race,. "This gives me some hope
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