Episode 8: Chelsea Manning On AGI Ethics, Privacy & Security

Jun 19, 2023

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Episode 8 features a lively discussion between Chelsea Manning and Ben Goertzel about numerous issues to consider when building, deploying and securing AGI-enabled systems.

Chelsea and Ben cover a number of timely topics, including:

AI cryptography.
Whether AGIs require consciousness or self-awareness.
The ethics of making an AGI self-aware.
The importance of using distributed, decentralized data verification systems to authenticate and verify sources of information.
What Chelsea feels is the biggest risk facing humanity in the next few years. (Spoiler! It’s climate change.)
The importance of using democratic, decentralized participatory mechanisms to control AI as it moves from, from narrow AI toward toward AGI.
AI employment displacement and its implications (and the obvious solution that UBI represents moving forward, highlighting potential obstacles with implementing it in poorer countries.
Why there might be supply chain interruptions in the future and who wins and who loses in “the supply chain lottery.”
AI regulations and Chelsea and Ben’s pragmatic take on what they can and can’t actually achieve.
The evolution of AI and its ethics.

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