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#324 - Debating the Future of AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Consequences of Alignment

"It's possible to have a reward function that is deeply counterintuitive to us," he says. "If you're imagining a, a super genius gorilla, while you're imagining the wrong thing, that we're going to build this and it's not going to be so stupid as to do X." He adds: "The machine is a process of intelligent design. It's the opposite of evolution ... These machines are being designed by them themselves".

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