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#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is AGI Super Intelligent or Just Mediocre Intelligent AI Systems Outliving Humans?
One of the possibilities, probably the cheapest and most effective way to create interesting interstellar spacecraft is ones that are powered and driven by AI. And it's kind of interesting to think about these robots traveling out throughout, perhaps sadly, long after human civilization is gone. The notion of AGIs that we created outlasting this is very reassuring because it says like we ended. But our descendants are out there and hopefully some of them make landfall and create some echo of who we are.
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