Stuart Armstrong - AI and the Future of Humanity

We have a guest on the show today! His name is Stuart Armstrong,
and he works at the Future of Humanity Institute that we’ve
mentioned several times over the course of the TEOTWAWKI specials
who are looking at big-picture existential risks. Stuart
Armstrong’s research at the Future of Humanity Institute centers
on the safety and possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI),
how to define the potential goals of AI and map humanity’s
partially defined values into it, and the long term potential for
intelligent life across the reachable universe. He has been
working with people at FHI and other organizations, such as
DeepMind, to formalize AI desiderata in general models so that AI
designers can include these safety methods in their
designs.