The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens Silicon Dreams and Carbon Nightmares: The Wide Boundary Impacts of AI with Daniel Schmachtenberger
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Jul 17, 2024 
AI expert Daniel Schmachtenberger joins Nate to discuss the alarming environmental risks of artificial intelligence. They explore how AI could lead to ecological destruction, intensify inequalities, and accelerate societal fragmentation. They highlight the need for a different set of values to ensure AI serves the betterment of life, offering insights on the wide boundary impacts of AI on the environment.
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Motivated Reasoning in AI Development
- AI accelerationists believe AGI dominance is inevitable and potentially catastrophic.
- They feel compelled to lead its development, often for personal gain or a desire to merge with AI.
AI Leaders' Disturbing Quotes
- Sam Altman jokes about AI's potential to kill everyone while creating profitable companies.
- Elon Musk expresses a morbid curiosity about witnessing the AI apocalypse.
AI's Blindness to Ecology
- AI's impact on the environment reflects existing human exploitation patterns but at an accelerated pace.
- It views natural resources as mere atoms for its objectives, not as vital components of a living planet.