Future of Life Institute Podcast

Jason Crawford on Progress and Risks from AI

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Jul 21, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
The Mainstream View of Economic Growth
01:57 • 3min
3
The Importance of Population Size in Economic Growth
04:59 • 2min
4
The Flywheel Metaphor
06:48 • 5min
5
The Flywheel Metaphor
11:57 • 6min
6
The Roots of Progress
17:57 • 2min
7
The History of Progress and Risk
19:40 • 4min
8
The Relationship Between Risk and Progress
23:36 • 4min
9
The Impact of the Pace of Development on the Safety of Technology
28:04 • 5min
10
The Importance of Safety in Progress
32:54 • 2min
11
The Over-Cautiousness of the FDA
35:10 • 3min
12
Defense in Depth
38:17 • 2min
13
The Importance of Predicting Risk
40:27 • 5min
14
The Importance of Safety in Progress
45:21 • 5min
15
The Dangers of Technology
49:53 • 3min
16
The Four Perspectives on AI Risk
52:29 • 4min
17
The Argument for Why AI Might Become an Analogue to a Separate Advanced Spell
56:58 • 2min
18
The Disagreement About AI Risk
58:49 • 2min
19
Solutionism on AI Safety
01:00:47 • 3min
20
How to Solve the AI Alignment Problem
01:04:08 • 2min
21
The Future of AI Safety
01:06:38 • 3min
22
AI Risk: A Normal Problem?
01:10:07 • 3min
23
AI: The Ultimate General Purpose Technology
01:12:43 • 2min
24
The Future of Economic Growth
01:14:52 • 2min
25
The Limits of Physics
01:16:35 • 2min
26
The Future of Growth Rates
01:18:19 • 2min
27
The Failure of the Model When We Get Infinities
01:20:13 • 2min
28
The Current Normal Goes On
01:22:14 • 4min