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Roman Yampolskiy on Objections to AI Safety

Future of Life Institute Podcast

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The Objection to AI Safety Research

Language is a tool people use to manipulate any debate. People are quite sensitive to certain words in particular, he says. Perhaps we should simply be willing to accept that yes what we are afraid of in a sense is matrix multiplication or data processing because these things might still have scary properties whatever we call them. All right there is also an objection going along the lines that super intelligence is impossible. What's the strongest form of this objection?

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