The Crisis That United Humanity—and Why It Matters for AI

The Crisis That United Humanity—and Why It Ma...

The Center for Humane Technology, Tristan Harris, Daniel Barcay and Aza RaskinThe Center for Humane Technology, Tristan Harris, Daniel Barcay and Aza Raskin

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AI and Cancer: Why Superintelligence Won’t Get Us to a Cure

One of the most common arguments you hear from company executives racing to develop super-intelligent AI is that it will cure cancer. It’s an incredibly powerful and seductive promise. If superintelligent AI really can cure cancer, then anyone who stands in the way of it, anyone ...  Show more

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Have We Trained AI to Lie to Itself — And to Us?

Our guest this week is David Dalrymple, who goes by Davidad. Davidad is one of the world's foremost and early researchers of AI “alignment:" how we get AI systems to act the way we want them to. In order to do that, Davidad has taken on the strange role of being like a therapist ...  Show more

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