Sam Harris

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, the things that worry me the most are the people, I mean, among the things that worry me the most, one is the testimony of the people, again, who are close enough to the technology to be totally credible.

who won't concede any of these fears right i mean so it's um it's the people who they don't it's like it's weird you'll hear sam talk about the risk he just said didn't interview in the last couple days and he talked about the risks of a major cyber event this year yeah he's an unusual i mean he's an unusual voice in that he will if you

I haven't seen him lately asked this question, but you know, the last time I saw him asked point blank about the alignment problem, he totally concedes that it's a problem.

Right.

So, and so like there's, there's, there's the way in which this could go completely off the rails and it's, you know, this is intrinsically dangerous if not aligned.

Right.

Yeah.

I mean, just probabilistically, you have to imagine there are more ways to build super intelligent AI that are unaligned than aligned, right?

So if we haven't figured out the principle by which we would align it, the idea that we're going to do it by chance seems far-fetched.

That's right.

When you ask someone like Sam Altman, what's the probability we're going to destroy everything with this technology?

And the answer is like between 10 and 20% or 30%.

No one's saying one in a million.

Well, there are five people.

I mean, there's only something like, I mean, you can count on one or at most two hands, the number of people whose minds would have to change so as to solve this coordination problem, at least in America.

Sam Altman has represented his situation.

I don't know if this is honest, maybe, but for years he's been saying when asked, you know, regulate me.

Like, yeah, you know, I can't do this myself.

Yes.