The Discourse Around Artificial Intelligence

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Anderson: What do you recommend people go read to learn right if they're just trying to wrap their heads around this but maybe they don't have the 200 hours that you recommended. If you're interested in general in this problem not so much the technical side go watch Tristan Harris's AI dilemma it's like an hour long talk and it's just a good kind of like summary of what's at stake. Tim Urban's Wait But Why post on artificial intelligence came out years ago but it's really good at helping you get some like deeper foundational ideas about how transformative AI is likely to be.

Emerson Spartz has been building internet and media companies since starting MuggleNet, the world's largest Harry Potter fan site, when he was just 12 years old. He founded digital media company Dose which created some of the world's largest viral content sites. For the past few years, Emerson has been focused on AI, with a particular interest in AI safety, AI alignment and extinction risk. Despite being such a techno-optimist by nature that he's been yelled at for being a techno-optimist in books, he has come to have real concerns about the speed and way that AI is developing. In this sprawling conversation, Emerson provides a set of mental models he uses to try and understand AI broadly. Recommended resources: https://aisafety.info/ Robert Miles YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/robertmilesai The A.I. Dilemma - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/