Stuart Russell
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first heard Dec 2018
last heard 24 Jun
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They feel that they can't escape this race, right?
If a CEO of one of those companies was to say, you know, we're not going to do this anymore, they would just be replaced.
Because the investors are putting their money up because they want to create AGI and reap the benefits of it.
So it's a strange situation where at least all the ones I've spoken to, I haven't spoken to Sam Altman about this, but Sam Altman, even before becoming CEO of OpenAI...
said that creating superhuman intelligence is the biggest risk to human existence that there is.
You know, Elon Musk is also on record saying this.
So Dario Amadei estimates up to a 25% risk of extinction.
I mean, they all signed a statement in May of 23.
It's called the extinction statement.
It basically says AGI is an extinction risk at the same level as nuclear war and pandemics.
But I don't think they feel it in their gut.
Imagine that you are one of the nuclear physicists.
I guess you've seen Oppenheimer, right?
So you're there, you're watching that first nuclear explosion.
how would that make you feel about the potential impact of nuclear war on the human race, right?
I think you would probably become a pacifist and say, this weapon is so terrible.
We have got to find a way to keep it under control.
We are not there yet with the people making these decisions and certainly not with the governments, right?
You know,
What policymakers do is they listen to experts.
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