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Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

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The Science Fiction of AI

The real science fiction part is the idea that, and I mentioned this before the program. You know, Sam Altman apologized on Twitter that he was sorry that chat GPT was biased and had was in a pro politically inappropriate way. And the real science fiction thing is that they can't stop it. Well, with these models, again, no. They're not even so much as they're not intelligent enough to be effective actors because they're just sort of schizophrenic. It's that sort of broadly schizophrenic nature of these ais that make them very unthreatening if they were better at pursuing goals then they start to do get threatening.

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