Joe Carlsmith on How We Change Our Minds About AI Risk
Future of Life Institute Podcast
The Importance of Agents Pursuing Goals
I think there's ways in which we might be leaning on those concepts quite a bit harder than they weren't. Like, it seems unlikely to me that like, the kind of possibility of machines that are both super intelligent and agentic and pursuing goals that are kind of contrary to interest. That is an empirical scenario that rightly described by those concepts. But I still think there's one of my most salient kind of ways in which the discourse might be kind of confused at a fundamental level as opposed to like wrong empirically about what'll happen.
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