Max Tegmark

And it does everything that you would have done and improvises and stuff.

That would, in my mind, involve a lot of creativity.

I don't think we need to be that defensive.

I don't think anything good comes out of saying, oh, we're somehow special.

Contrary wise, there are many examples in history of where trying to pretend that we're somehow superior to all other intelligent beings has led to pretty bad results, right?

Nazi Germany, they said that they were somehow superior to other people.

Today, we still do a lot of cruelty to animals by saying that we're so superior somehow and they can't feel pain.

Slavery was justified by the same kind of really weak arguments.

And I don't think if we actually go ahead and build artificial general intelligence, we can do things better than us.

I don't think we should try to found our self-worth on some sort of

bogus claims of superiority in terms of our intelligence.

I think we should instead find our calling and the meaning of life from the experiences that we have.

I can have very meaningful experiences, even if there are other people who are smarter than me.

when I go to a faculty meeting here and we're talking about something and then I suddenly realize, oh, he has an old prize, he has an old prize, he has an old prize.

I don't have one.

Does that make me enjoy life any less or enjoy talking to those people less?

Of course not.

And the contrary is I feel very honored and privileged to get to interact with other very intelligent beings that are better than me at a lot of stuff.

So,

I don't think there's any reason why we can't have the same approach with intelligent machines.