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 know, there's this bizarre phenomenon that keeps happening in the media where if you talk about these risks,

They will say, oh, you know, there's a fringe of people, you know, called, quote, doomers who think that there's, you know, risk of extinction.

So they always, the narrative is always that, oh, you know, talking about those risks is a fringe thing.

Pretty much all the CEOs of the leading AI companies are.

think that there's a significant risk of extinction.

Almost all the leading AI researchers think there's a significant risk of human extinction.

So why is that the fringe, right?

Why isn't that the mainstream?

If these are the leading experts in industry and academia saying this, how could it be the fringe?

So we're trying to change that narrative

to say, no, the people who really understand this stuff are extremely concerned.

What I think is that we should have effective regulation.

It's hard to argue with that, right?

So what does effective mean?

It means that if you comply with the regulation, then the risks are reduced to an acceptable level.

So for example, we ask people who want to operate nuclear plants, right?

We've decided that the risk we're willing to live with is, you know, a one in a million chance per year that the plant is going to have a meltdown.

Any higher than that, you know, we just don't, it's not worth it, right?

So you have to be below that.

Some cases we can get down to one in 10 million chance per year.

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