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Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality

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The Importance of Smart AI

I think that if you have something that is Smart than I am able to solve alignment it can. If there was some way to ask an AI to build a super atomic bomb and that would solve all our problems That are then and it doesn't have to be like And it only needs to be as smart as alias or to do that honestly, you're still kind of trouble because Aliasters Are get more dangerous as you put them in a room with aliens They do not like Instead of with with humans which you know have their flaws but are not actually aliens in this sense. The point is that I doubt that like Oppenheimer if he in some sense had the options you're talking about

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