Max Tegmark

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2,248 appearances 4 recordings 2 series first heard Aug 2018 last heard 3 Nov

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Brilliant idea.

What's the logic behind that?

Some lobbyists pushed successfully for this.

So we were actually quite involved with the Future Life Institute.

Mark Brackel, Risto Uk, Anthony Aguirre and others.

We're quite involved with educating various people involved in this process about...

these general purpose AI models coming and pointing out that they would become the laughing stock if they didn't put it in.

So the French started pushing for it.

It got put in to the draft and it looked like all was good.

And then there was a huge counter push from lobbyists.

There were more lobbyists in Brussels from tech companies than from oil companies, for example.

And it looked like it might maybe get taken out again.

And now GPT-4 happened, and I think it's gonna stay in.

But this just shows, you know, Moloch can be defeated.

But the challenge we're facing is that the tech is generally much faster than what the policy makers are.

And a lot of the policy makers also don't have a tech background.

So we really need to work hard to educate them on what's taking place here.

So we're getting the situation where the first kind of non, so I define artificial intelligence just as non-biological intelligence.

And by that definition, a company, a corporation is also an artificial intelligence because the corporation isn't, it's humans, it's a system.

If its CEO decides, the CEO of a tobacco company decides one morning, the CEO, he doesn't want to sell cigarettes anymore.

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