Munk Dialogue with AI Debaters Yann Lecun, Max Tegmark, Melanie Mitchell and Yoshua Bengio
The Munk Debates Podcast
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The Risk Denialism of AI
It was always pretty obvious to me that if we ever did build an AI that was vastly smarter than us that we could in principle lose control over it and get wiped out. The idea that intelligence gives power is so old that even Alan Turing himself, one of the founding fathers of AI,. wrote in 1951 that that's the most likely outcome that we will gradually lose control. Commercial pressures have just thrown all our wisdom out the window. We've already connected these to the internet. We've taught AI how to manipulate people by letting them read everything we've written on the internet and figure out how to manipulate us into clicking more on social media. This idea of self-improving AI feels a
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