David Pakman
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86,421 appearances
137 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2023
last heard yesterday
David Pakman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What I really want to understand is, you know, when when people go, I'm worried AI is just gonna kill us all, or something like that.
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I don't think that many people necessarily have a grasp of exactly what it would take for that to happen.
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And to be honest, like I have some ideas of of things that could take place, but I don't really know how plausible they are.
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Like, for example, one of the things that's being floated is, you know, one of the things that AI could do is it could take control of water treatment plants and basically like reverse them and run the raw sewage into the water that we get out of our out of our
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First of all, could AI really do that?
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And I know that people will say, David, you're being so naive.
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It might not be able to do that now, but it learns and it could be certainly able to do that six months from now.
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I don't know physically what would be required for quote AI to reverse water treatment and send raw sewage into our houses as drinking water.
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But the other aspect to it is everybody seems to be assuming that AI, quote, by by the way, what do we mean by AI in general?
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It's like there's these different models that AI would want to send raw sewage in order to kill everybody and take away drinking water because it would serve its ultimate goal.
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of taking over the world or I don't even think that's been demonstrated to my satisfaction.
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Yeah, I agree with that.
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And uh I think that the big picture is really where we where we should be focusing.
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And I think moratoria are just a waste of time to even talk about.
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Texas Republicans are denouncing a Republican statewide candidate over a xenophobic post.
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The guy's name is Bo French, and he is a Republican nominee to join the state's Railroad Commission.
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He made xenophobic comments describing a group of Asian Americans.
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American students going to the University of Texas football game as a problem.
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He said, I it's a it's a picture of students celebrating.
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And in the picture you can see that there are individuals of uh various races, including Asian, uh Asian as I guess Asian including Indian, right?
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