Athena Aktipis

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

And, you know, and I'm...

I'm very aware of the weaknesses that AIs have in terms of some of the sort of big picture assessments of what actually is a path that makes sense to go given a lot of...

uncertain variables and potential pitfalls that it might be hard to sort of represent all of those if you don't already understand them well enough yourself to articulate them in computational terms.

But I think there are humans who have

sort of instincts about how to navigate very complex strategic situations, that when you pair that with the computational power, the raw power that, you know, artificial minds have and their ability to integrate, you know, massive amounts of data, to me, that's the scary thing.

And I think to some extent, we're kind of already there in that, like,

I mean, it's...

I mean, I don't know what the data is about what's actually going on on Twitter in terms of this, but from the friends I have who are, you know, on Twitter in spaces where there's a lot of – there used to be a lot of valuable dialogue going on.

They're becoming dominated by what –

you know, sounds to me from their descriptions like a bunch of nasty chat bots that are just, you know, trying to interfere with what otherwise would be real conversation.

So, so yeah.

Yeah.

I think we tend to think about that as a large scale, right, like alignment with human interests and human well-being.

But the fact is humans have their own strategic goals and interests that are – many of them are at the individual level or at the level of groups or at the level of –

You know, nation states and things like that.

And so to the extent that AI can be leveraged for particular interests, I think that that is, you know, and that that process of really, you know, what's ultimately cooperation.

between humans and AI to accomplish certain goals, even if those goals are at the expense of the rest of humanity.

To me, that is one of the most important issues for us to grapple with at this moment with what's happening with AI right now.

So I think there are a lot of things going on.

I think we have, you know, many systems that have done a decent job of helping us to manage risk using financial instruments and things.

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