Future of Life Institute Podcast Samuel Hammond on AGI and Institutional Disruption
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Oct 20, 2023 Samuel Hammond, an expert in AGI, discusses how it will transform economies, governments, and institutions. Topics include AI's impact on the economy, transaction costs, and state power. They explore the timeline of a techno-feudalist future and alignment difficulty in AI scale.
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
Advancements in AI and Human Performance
02:59 • 17min
Projecting Correctly: Institutional or Psychological Problem?
20:03 • 5min
AI Progress and the Influence of Hard Steps
24:53 • 15min
Technological Change and Institutional Change
40:05 • 11min
Transaction Costs and Their Impact on Institutions
51:22 • 6min
Language Models for Monitoring and Tracking in the Private and Public Sectors
57:37 • 3min
The Importance of Second-Order Effects in AI Development
01:00:29 • 6min
Estonia's IT Advancement and Government Reforms
01:06:18 • 8min
AI's Ability to Reconstruct Keystrokes and Extract Data
01:14:23 • 26min
Alignment with AGI and the Uncertainty of Learned Values
01:40:28 • 17min
Combining Efforts for AGI Research
01:57:41 • 9min
Critiquing the Imminent Arrival of AGI Based on Low Interest Rates
02:06:44 • 8min