Max Tegmark

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...

I think that's the biggest misunderstanding we have.

A lot of people think that we're scared of automatic spreadsheets.

That's not the case.

That's not what Eliezer was freaked out about either.

I carry concern for it.

Not that all humans are going to get killed by slaughterbots, but rather just as...

express route into Orwellian dystopia, where it becomes much easier for very few to kill very many, and therefore it becomes very easy for very few to dominate very many, right?

AI, if you want to know how AI could kill all people, just ask yourself, we humans have driven a lot of species extinct.

How do we do it?

You know, we were smarter than them.

Usually we didn't do it even systematically by going around one after the other and stepping on them or shooting them or anything like that.

We just chopped down their habitat because we needed it for something else.

In some cases, we did it by putting more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because of some reason that those animals didn't even understand.

And now they're gone, right?

So if you're an AI and you just want to...

figure something out, then you decide, you know, we just really need the space here to build more compute facilities.

You know, if that's the only goal it has, you know, we are just the sort of accidental roadkill along the way.