Max Tegmark

I'd much rather have this be a really inclusive conversation.

I think...

There's no better way to guarantee failure than to refuse to talk about it or refuse to try.

And I also think it's a really bad strategy to say, okay, let's first have a discussion for a long time.

And then once we reach complete consensus, then we'll try to load it into some machine.

No, we shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Instead...

We should start with the kindergarten ethics that pretty much everybody agrees on and put that into our machines now.

We're not doing that even.

Look at, you know, anyone who builds a passenger aircraft wants it to never, under any circumstances, fly into a building or a mountain, right?

Yet the September 11 hijackers were able to do that.

And even more embarrassingly, you know, Andreas Lubitz, this depressed German wings pilot, when he flew his passenger jet into the Alps, killing over a hundred people,

He just told the autopilot to do it.

He told the freaking computer to change the altitude to 100 meters.

And even though it had the GPS maps, everything, the computer was like, okay.

So we should take those very basic values, where the problem is not that we don't agree.

The problem is just we've been too lazy to try to put it into our machines and make sure that from now on, airplanes will just...

which all have computers in them, but we just refuse to do something like that.

Go into safe mode, maybe lock the cockpit door, go over the nearest airport.

And there's so much other technology in our world as well now where it's really coming quite timely to put in some sort of very basic values like this.