#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development

Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder
of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being
Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Please support this
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EPISODE LINKS:
Max’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tegmark
Max’s Website: https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark
Pause Giant AI Experiments (open letter):
https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments

Future of Life Institute: https://futureoflife.org
Books and resources mentioned:
1. Life 3.0 (book): https://amzn.to/3UB9rXB
2. Meditations on Moloch (essay):
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch
3. Nuclear winter paper:
https://nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0


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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:34) – Intelligent alien civilizations
(19:58) – Life 3.0 and superintelligent AI
(31:25) – Open letter to pause Giant AI Experiments
(56:32) – Maintaining control
(1:25:22) – Regulation
(1:36:12) – Job automation
(1:45:27) – Elon Musk
(2:07:09) – Open source
(2:13:39) – How AI may kill all humans
(2:24:10) – Consciousness
(2:33:32) – Nuclear winter
(2:44:00) – Questions for AGI