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WARNING By Sam Harris: ChatGPT Could Be The Start Of The End. AI "Could Destroy Us, The Internet And Democracy"

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Can We Build AI Without Losing Control Over It?

Six years ago you did a TED Talk. And the TED Talk was called, can we build AI without losing control over it? Mm-mm. In that TED Talk, you really discussed the idea whether AI, when it gets to a certain point of sentience and intelligence will wreak havoc on humanity. Do you think, are you optimistic about our chances of survival? I'm worried about two species of problem here that are related. There's the near-term problem of just what humans do with increasingly powerful AI. And then there's just the longer-term concern about what's called alignment with artificial general intelligence.

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