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05: The Likelihood and Risks of Superintelligent Machines

The World as You’ll Know It: The Great Rebuild

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Is Super Intelligence Taking Over the World?

I often get calls or emails from people who are thinking about films involving super intelligence. And they ask questions like, okay, so super intelligence is threatening to take over the world. So can you explain to us how the humans outwit the super intelligence? It's like, sorry, I can't just sort of buy definition, right? Because if they could, it wouldn't really be super intelligent. Well, which is sort of the sky, if not the sky net consciousness moment,. You're getting to a point where, wait, you're not letting me switch you off.

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