Max Tegmark

It doesn't look so much like a species yet because it's mostly not embodied in robots, but that's a technicality which will soon be changed.

And this arrival of artificial general intelligence that can do all our jobs as well as us and

probably shortly thereafter, superintelligence, which greatly exceeds our cognitive abilities.

It's going to either be the best thing ever to happen to humanity or the worst.

I'm really quite confident that there is not that much middle ground there.

Of course, utterly and totally, you know.

Again, we branded ourselves as homo sapiens because it seemed like the basic thing.

We're the king of the castle on this planet.

We're the smart ones.

We can control everything else.

This could very easily change.

We're certainly not going to be the smartest on the planet for very long unless AI progress just halts.

And we can talk more about why I think that's true because it's controversial.

And then we can also talk about

reasons you might think it's going to be the best thing ever and the reason you think it's going to be the end of humanity, which is, of course, super controversial.

But what I think we can, anyone who's working on advanced AI can agree on is it's much like the film Don't Look Up in that it's just really comical how little serious public debate there is about it, given how huge it is.

So this is very controversial.

When we talked the first time, we talked about how I was involved in starting the Future Life Institute.

And we worked very hard on 2014, 2015 was the mainstream AI safety.

the idea that there even could be risks and that you could do things about them.