The Future of Human Intelligence

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I think that the really good science fiction Brave New World 2.0 is going to be exploiting that human desire for ease, comfort and productivity. And we're not going to worry so much as individuals. It's going to be hard to get people to reign the whole system in. But I do feel like it's time to put seat belts on folks. You know, a lot of these norms and ways of doing things are going to fall away."

The future of AI keeps Zvi Mowshowitz up at night. He also wonders why so many smart people seem to think that AI is more likely to save humanity than destroy it. Listen as Mowshowitz talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the current state of AI, the pace of AI's development, and where--unless we take serious action--the technology is likely to end up (and that end is not pretty). They also discuss Mowshowitz's theory that the shallowness of the AI extinction-risk discourse results from the assumption that you have to be either pro-technological progress or against it.