Theo Jaffee
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1,082 appearances
21 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
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Um, I think like a related issue is like this sort of um free market liability regime works well for
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Products whose defects are obvious, which is the case for like all products except for like a hypothetical AI that would be deceptively aligned, as in it would learn to like game all of the alignment benchmarks that are thrown at it.
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And then when it is deployed in the real world, um it
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acts misaligned and if it's powerful enough then it disempowers humanity.
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Like this is the like canonical worry of the Doomers.
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And like how how do you propose to uh deal with that kind of contingency?
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Yeah, I mean I agree that most proposals for a pause don't really have much in mind for what they would do with it.
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Like pause pause and
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I think like generally there's a lot of conflation between like sort of bog standard anti tech people.
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who just kind of hate technology, even totally mundane technology, even like extremely net positive technology.
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Like look at how difficult it's been to deploy Waymo's in cities around the country.
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And Waymo's are like one of the most obviously net positive technologies that exist.
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Um and then there's the people who are are like, you know, the AI safetyists, like the rationalists, the EAs, who
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ultimately come from the same sort of
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SF tech ecosystem.
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They are techno optimist in most cases.
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They're specifically worried about this like uh edge case of AI existential risk.
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Um I I think there are two different crowds of people.
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Right.
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Um, certainly I hope so.
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