#81 Nick Bostrom - How To Prevent AI Catastro...

John Nelson earned a PhD in New Testament and Christian Origins from the University of Edinburgh in 2023. He writes for the Substack Behind the Gospels.His thesis is the first book-length study of Jesus' physical appearance in the Gospels. He runs a weekly Substack called "Behind ...  Afficher plus

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Sam Harris speaks with Nick Bostrom about ongoing progress in artificial intelligence. They discuss the twin concerns about the failure of alignment and the failure to make progress, why smart people don't perceive the risk of superintelligent AI, the governance risk, path dep ...

<div>Dr. Roman Yampolskiy  explains:
⬛How AI could release a deadly virus
⬛Why these 5 jobs might be the only ones left
⬛How superintelligence will dominate humans
⬛Why ‘superintelligence’ could trigger a global collapse by 2027
⬛How AI could be worse than nu ...  Afficher plus

Sam Harris speaks with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares about their new book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI. They discuss the alignment problem, ChatGPT and recent advances in AI, the Turing Test, the possibility of AI developing surviv ...  Afficher plus

Should we be scared of AI?

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Joanna Bryson discusses how she became interested in ...