Future Strategist Hanson on AI Risk
Apr 30, 2023
Robin Hanson, a Fellow economist at George Mason University and an expert in AI risk, tackles the urgent challenges posed by advanced artificial intelligence. He discusses the contrasting views on AI's potential dangers and its impact on global economic structures. The conversation delves into the intricacies of human-AI relationships, societal unrest implications, and the existential risks associated with superintelligence. Hanson emphasizes the need for policy frameworks and innovation to navigate a future shaped by profound technological change.
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Markets for Superintelligences
- Both speakers agree superintelligences would likely preserve markets for their instrumental value.
- Markets, like eyes and legs in biology, are robust innovations that solve coordination problems, even for complex AI economies.
AI Takeover Risk
- James D. Miller posits AIs, if wanting to, could kill humans.
- Hanson suggests this AI takeover risk resembles historical political economy patterns where a majority with coordinated force can exterminate minorities.
Environmental Impact of AI Wars
- James D. Miller suggests that AI wars could make Earth uninhabitable for humans as a side effect.
- Hanson counters, proposing brain emulations, a successor to humans, could also be less susceptible to environmental damage, leveling the playing field.