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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness

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Is There a Threat of AI?

I think intelligence, this is what I have been in eloquent in trying to describe it, partially because I try not to think too deeply through this stuff. But my sense is super intelligence leads to deep integration into human society. And I think that kind of super intelligent being is not the thing that worries me. It's again, the dumb algorithms,. The dumb algorithms that scale in the hands of people that don't study history and human nature, just applying too broadly for selfish near term interests. That's the biggest danger.

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