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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I think those are not the two greatest threats.
They're very serious threats and it's wonderful that people are trying to mitigate them.
It's a much bigger elephant in the room is how is this going to disrupt our economy in a huge way, obviously, and maybe take away a lot of the most meaningful jobs.
And an even bigger one is the one we spent so much time talking about here, that this becomes the bootloader for the more powerful AI.
Yeah.
And before we know it, we have something else, which is not at all a large language model that looks nothing like it, but which is way more intelligent and capable and has goals.
And that's the elephant in the room.
And obviously, no matter how hard any of these companies have tried, that's not something that's easy for them to verify with large language models.
And the only way to be really lower that risk a lot would be
to not let, for example, never let it read any code, not train on that, and not put it into an API, and not give it access to so much information about how to manipulate humans.
But that doesn't mean you still can't make a lot of...
a ton of money on them, you know.
We're going to just watch now this coming year, right?
Microsoft is rolling out the new Office suite where you go into Microsoft Word and give it a prompt.
It writes the whole text for you and then you edit it.
And then you're like, oh, give me a PowerPoint version of this, and it makes it.
And now take the spreadsheet and blah, blah.
All of those things, I think, you can debate the economic impact of it and whether society is prepared to deal with this disruption.
But those are not the things which... That's not the elephant of the room that keeps me awake at night for wiping out humanity.
And...
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