#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 podcast
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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 PODCAST INFO:
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (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