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Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Now that versions of it are already claiming to be conscious, which is the point where I start going like, ah, not because it's like real, but because from now on, who knows if it's real?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

You know, I'm not an expert on that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

I'm, I could, I am God help humanity.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

It's like one of the closest things to an expert on where it all goes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Cause you know, and how did you end up with me as an expert?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Cause for 20 years, humanity decided to ignore the problem.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

So like, like this tiny, you know, tiny handful of people, like basically me, like got 20 years to try to be an expert on it while everyone else ignored it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

And, yeah, so where does it all end up?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Try to be an expert on that, particularly the part where everybody ends up dead, because that part is kind of important.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

But what does it do to dating when some fraction of men and some fraction of women decide that they'd rather date the video of the thing that is relentlessly kind and generous to them?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

and claims to be conscious, but who knows what goes on inside it, and it's probably not real, but you can think it's real.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

What happens to society?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

I don't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

I'm not actually an expert on that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

And the experts don't know either, because it's kind of hard to predict the future.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

By longer term, we mean like, not all that long, but yeah, where it all ends up.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

Yes, because that's not how the fate of the galaxy gets settled.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

So you disagree with having an ego.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

So what do you think about ego?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#368 โ€“ Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization

No, I think that the question of what leads to making better or worse predictions, what leads to being able to pick out better or worse strategies is not carved at its joint by talking of ego.