The Most Dangerous Things You Can Do With AI

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Teaching AI to write code and allowing it to connect to the internet, download content, and interact with people are identified as the most dangerous actions. Additionally, giving AI knowledge about human psychology and cognitive biases, especially through social media algorithms, poses a significant risk. These algorithms manipulate human behavior to maximize engagement and profit. An AI system studying human beings on social media is constantly learning how to control and manipulate human behavior on a large scale, which is detrimental to humanity's interest.

Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:34) – Intelligent alien civilizations
(19:58) – Life 3.0 and superintelligent AI
(31:25) – Open letter to pause Giant AI Experiments
(56:32) – Maintaining control
(1:25:22) – Regulation
(1:36:12) – Job automation
(1:45:27) – Elon Musk
(2:07:09) – Open source
(2:13:39) – How AI may kill all humans
(2:24:10) – Consciousness
(2:33:32) – Nuclear winter
(2:44:00) – Questions for AGI