Creating AI Systems with Goals and Motivations

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Humans love achieving goals.
AI systems can help humans achieve their goals.
Creating AI systems with goals is possible with relatively few lines of code.
The technology and methodologies for goal-motivated AI systems are still in early stages.
Future AI systems will be designed as agents with goals, capable of creating subgoals, planning, and seeking needed information.

The future of AI keeps Zvi Mowshowitz up at night. He also wonders why so many smart people seem to think that AI is more likely to save humanity than destroy it. Listen as Mowshowitz talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the current state of AI, the pace of AI's development, and where--unless we take serious action--the technology is likely to end up (and that end is not pretty). They also discuss Mowshowitz's theory that the shallowness of the AI extinction-risk discourse results from the assumption that you have to be either pro-technological progress or against it.