Stuart Russell
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first heard Dec 2018
last heard 24 Jun
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Well, it was more what I was not allowed to say.
I was not allowed to talk about anything related to existential risk, which was surprising because OpenAI was set up for that reason.
Musk and others were concerned that if AI were in the hands of for-profit companies, that they would disregard safety and put humanity at risk.
So OpenAI was created to counter that.
The judge said, no, you can't talk about that.
which was disappointing.
Why did the judge say you couldn't talk about existential risk?
I was not privy to those discussions either.
Maybe the defense lawyers thought it would be prejudicial, that it was in some sense speculative, because we haven't yet gone extinct.
And this is a strange argument I hear from a lot of people.
It's just science fiction.
Well, what do you mean by that?
Well, it hasn't happened yet.
You know, everything that's ever happened, there was a time before it happened.
Before it happened.
And by your argument, nothing could ever happen because everything was at some point science fiction.
But, you know, when you look at science fiction, you know, they talked about nuclear weapons in 1912, H.G.
Wells.
They talked about space travel in the 19th century.
And in fact, they talked about AI in the 19th century.
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