338. AI SciFi — Physicist, Science Fiction Author, and AI Expert David Brin on ChatGPT and Whether AI Poses an Existential Threat
The Michael Shermer Show
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Eliezer Yudkowski's Call for a Six Month Moratorium on AI Development
Eliezer Yudkowski wrote in Time magazine the next day to just shut it all down and probably voice what a lot of people are thinking. Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely result of building a super humanly smart AI under anything remotely like the current circumstances is literally that everyone on earth will die. He did not provide a pathway for how this would happen. And then in later tweets, he clarified he meant that China or Russia will launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike on our GPU farms and then we'll have to counter and destroy theirGPU farms. You get a nuclear arms race and then you have nuclear thermonuclear war in
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