Gus Docker
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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Welcome to the Future of Life Institute podcast.
My name is Gus Docker and I'm here with Tom Davidson, who's a senior research fellow at Forethought.
Tom, welcome to the podcast.
Pleasure to be here, guys.
We're gonna talk about AI coups and the possibility of
future AI systems are basically taking over governments or states.
Which features would future AI systems need to have in order for them to accomplish this?
What should we be looking out for?
Yeah, could you describe in more concrete terms what an AI enabled military coup would look like?
Some example to kind of make this concrete for us.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, this is really a change from the um from the normal
coups of history where you would have to have buy-in from at least some segment of the population that are uh regular humans and you would need to kind of continually support that buy-in.
and and make alliances and and uphold those alliances.
But this is this has changed now that you're talking about
AI.
and AIs and robots that can b basically be made loyal
to a company or or a head of state.
in a in a way that's more durable.
Do you think we have other kind of historical precedents for thinking about how the dynamics of what it's like to attend a coup, um how those dynamics play out?
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