Stuart Russell
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first heard Dec 2018
last heard 24 Jun
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Yes, yeah.
And I have actually been at the University of Chicago where the actual clock is set.
Wow.
It's cool.
Maybe we're 90 seconds or something, or 87 seconds, I forget.
And I did have a conversation with one of the AI CEOs who said he didn't think the governments would regulate until there was a Chernobyl-scale disaster.
And we haven't had that yet, so I hope we don't have to have that.
in order to have a regulatory regime that corresponds to the level of risk that the CEOs themselves are talking about.
They are saying there's a good chance we'll make you all extinct.
And up to now, governments have been saying, well, great, can we give you a subsidy?
Can we streamline your permit process?
And now maybe they're realizing that actually, no, we need to protect the human race.
I think, no, I think there's a stopping point somewhere between.
And for example, I think you could have computers, but just make sure that algorithms that are operating in computers have to come with a proof that they are safe.
And this is actually an idea that dates back to the 1990s called proof-carrying code.
And you can make computers that will check the proof of safety of the algorithm before they run it.
And so if that becomes the standard for all hardware devices, that they only run
checkable software objects that come with a proof that it's okay to run this object, then I think that would be a regime that would be extremely hard
to bypass, because you'd have to create a whole separate supply chain to produce high-end chips.
You're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars, tens of thousands of engineers, decades of work that would all have to happen in the black market, so to speak.
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