Stuart Russell

It seems to me an admission of failure.

Because what it says is, okay, we're just going to give everyone the money and then they can use the money to pay the AI company to lease the robots to build the school.

And then we'll have a school and that's good.

But it's an admission of failure because it says we can't work out a system in which people have any worth or any economic role.

So 99% of the global population is, from an economic point of view, useless.

That's a very interesting question.

If it's either or,

Either I do it now or it's too late and we careen into some uncontrollable future.

Perhaps, yeah.

Because I'm not super optimistic that we're heading in the right direction at all.

Well, here's what I think should happen.

So obviously, you know, I've been doing AI for 50 years.

And the original motivations, which is that AI can be a power tool for humanity, enabling us to do more and better things than we can unaided.

I think that's still valid.

The problem is

The kinds of AI systems that we're building are not tools.

They are replacements.

In fact, you can see this very clearly because we create them literally as the closest replicas we can make of human beings.

The technique for creating them is called imitation learning.

So we observe human verbal behavior, writing or speaking, and we make a system that imitates that as well as possible.