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Biden's Executive Order and AI Safety with Flo Crivello, Founder of Lindy AI

Nov 3, 2023

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Flo Crivello, founder of Lindy AI, discusses Biden's executive order and AI safety. Topics include building AGI kill switches, self-driving cars, regulating model development versus regulating applications, and the risks associated with advancing AI technology.

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Regulations should focus on the silicon layer of AI systems and include hardware-level controls like kill switches.

GPT-4, an AI language model, shows potential for AGI with its recursive improvement capability and wide-ranging knowledge.

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AI Regulation and Existential Risk

The speaker discusses the importance of regulating advanced AI systems and managing existential risks associated with them. They express concern about overregulation hindering progress but emphasize the need for caution given the potential for human extinction. They believe that a new form of life is being built through AI and assert that regulations should focus on the silicon layer rather than the application level. The speaker suggests the implementation of a kill switch at the hardware level, such as putting a chip in every GPU, to enable control over AI systems. They also highlight the importance of collaboration with China on AI safety and regulation.

Introduction

4min

Challenges and Potential of Self-Driving Cars

12min

The Evolution of Life and the Next Step in Intelligence

4min

The Inevitability of Advanced AI and the Risks Associated

11min

Debate on Regulating Model Development versus Regulating Applications in AI

3min

Regulating the Silicon Layer and Risks of Advancing AI

16min

Progression of the AI story and the Importance of Subjective Experience

3min

In this episode, Flo Crivello, founder of Lindy AI, joins Nathan to chat about Biden’s executive order, and the state of AI safety. They discuss Flo’s thoughts on the executive order, building AGI kill switches, self driving cars, and more. If you need an ERP platform, check out our sponsor NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/cognitive.

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode Preview

(00:06:42) The natural order of technological progress

(00:07:00) Self driving cars

(00:10:57) Where is Flo accelerationist?

(00:12:34) Artificial intelligence as a new form of life

(00:17:08) - Sponsors: Oracle | Omneky

(00:18:05) Silicon-based intelligence vs carbon-based intelligence

(00:24:36) Executive Order

(00:29:32) How would a GPU kill switch work?

(00:31:24) “Let’s not regulate model development, but applications”

(00:32:08) - Sponsor: Netsuite

(00:36:00) GPT-4 is the most critical component for AGI

(00:38:00) AGI in 2-8 years

(00:39:26) Eureka moment from a general system

(00:48:00) AI research with China

(00:52:00) Does AI have subjective experience? The Mu response

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Producer: Vivian Meng

Executive Producers: Amelia Salyers, and Erik Torenberg

Editor: Graham Bessellieu

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