Jeremy Grantham

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906 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jul

Jeremy Grantham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The ones who are most concerned about the risks say our one hope, if we mean to keep going,

ferociously forward in terms of the science, our one hope would be to build in very carefully a benevolent attitude.

It would not seem to be impossible, but you should make sure you can do that before you push ahead.

We're just pushing ahead, and that is going to be extremely risky, isn't it?

Well, I don't see how it can't be.

I don't see how it can't be, unless you make it programmed completely to be benevolent.

I wouldn't have thought that was impossible.

It might take a lot of extra research.

It might require a slowdown at the rate of progress.

That's right.

You have to get them to accept a form of benevolence, which means like the old robot laws of Asimov.

that they can never do anything that they could construe as hurtful to humans.

And how fast that has changed from, say, even a year ago.

Honestly, three months ago it wasn't doing this.

I had one where they made a joke.

I'd been going on about toxicity and sperm count reduction and so on.

he started to misbehave.

And I said, you know, what's going on here?

In the end, we discussed what's the difference between machines and between AI and humans.

And finally, he said, and at least I'm not lying in bed at night worrying about my declining sperm count.

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