Stuart Russell

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1,902 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2018 last heard 24 Jun

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You read out the list of projected dates for AGI, but notice also that those people...

I think I mentioned Dara Amadei says a 25% chance of extinction.

Elon Musk has a 30% chance of extinction.

Sam Altman says basically that AGI is the biggest risk to human existence.

So what are they doing?

They are playing Russian roulette with every human being on earth without our permission.

They're coming into our houses, putting a gun to the head of our children and

pulling the trigger and saying, well, you know, possibly everyone will die.

Oops.

But possibly we'll get incredibly rich.

That's what they're doing.

Did they ask us?

No.

Why is the government allowing them to do this?

Because they dangle $50 billion checks in front of the governments.

So I think troubled under the surface is an understatement.

appalled.

And I am devoting my life to trying to divert from this course of history into a different one.

Well, I do wish I had understood earlier what I understand now.

We could have developed safe AI systems.

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