Minds Almost Meeting

AI Risk (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with David Duvenaud)

May 31, 2023

01:08:06

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Episode guests

Robin Hanson

Agnes Callard

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Episode notes

Introduction

5min

The Dangers of Coercion

4min

The Third Way to Keep Human Values

3min

Locking in Values

5min

The Value of Parenting

2min

The Importance of Trust in the Future

4min

The Importance of Mind Control

3min

AI and the Future of Civilization

4min

The Importance of Coercion in AI

2min

10.

The Importance of Slowing Change

2min

11.

The Trade-Off Between Control and Growth

2min

12.

Controlling Growth Is Worth It

2min

13.

The Importance of Intuition

3min

14.

The Fertile Faction

3min

15.

How to Engineer Legacies

5min

16.

The Importance of Generational Preferences

4min

17.

The Future of AI

2min

18.

The Importance of Competition in the Future

4min

19.

The Potential for Cheap Legacy Building

4min

20.

The Importance of Favorite Holidays

2min

21.

The Importance of Preserving Non-Functional Values

6min

View the transcript for this episode here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/ai-risk

Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.

Visit the Minds Almost Meeting website here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mindsalmostmeeting.com⁠⁠⁠

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