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179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Pandemic of Artificial General Intelligence?

i was always curious what your thoughts are on ai in the con text of potential disaster? Well, i think one has to steer clear of a two science fiction a a scenario hat that we arrive at artificial general intelligence. I mean, that's clearly a great science fiction plot, but it's not a very likely reality. After all, it's proving to be very difficult, indeed, to get cars to drive themselves. A the idea that we're going to build a doomsday machine that has the capacity to wipe us out seems a bit unlikely.

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