Ben Horowitz

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3,643 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 15 Jan

Ben Horowitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Ben & Marc Show · New AI Policy Update on Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks · 6 Nov 2024 podcast

And, you know, what should you regulate and what should you uh wait to see, you know, how bad is it and these kinds of things. podcast-host

ramped up is what happened. podcast-host

Um although, you know, credit to Senator Schumer for being very, very kind of logical and pragmatic during that time and not flipping out. podcast-host

Yeah, I think the good news is the education curve on AI is on a much faster ramp than it was on crypto, which is nice. podcast-host

Oh yeah. podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

I think people are just now understanding blockchain and crypto issues. podcast-host

Yeah, that's right. podcast-host

That's right. podcast-host

Yeah, so maybe we should go through the areas kind of may maybe we start with the first area that uh really got a lot of play, which is this podcast-host

Area of kind of safety, physical safety. podcast-host

And there's a kind of a number of vectors that I would say the Doomers warned about, probably the most prominent being this idea of takeoff. podcast-host

Uh and what takeoff is essentially is at some point, in theory, not yet in practice, uh, but in theory, uh, the AI will learn how to improve. podcast-host

Prove itself. podcast-host

And then once it learns how to improve itself, it will keep getting smarter and smarter at improving itself until it becomes this like massively smart thing and then podcast-host

Potentially podcast-host

It can get a will of its own and then potentially it could do like, you know, it's way smarter than us, so it could just wipe us out if it saw fit. podcast-host

Or uh alternatively it could, you know, uh g take an instruction too far. podcast-host

So you can say, what does it make paper clips and it runs out of material and has to like kill all the humans to get more materials for the paper clips or or or that kind of thing. podcast-host

Uh so those are kind of like the the the kind of science fiction. podcast-host

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