#332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?

Sam Harris speaks with Mustafa Suleyman about his new book, “The
Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest
Dilemma.” They discuss the progress in artificial intelligence
made at his company DeepMind, the acquisition of DeepMind by
Google, Atari DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold, the invention
of new knowledge, the risks of our making progress in AI,
“superintelligence” as a distraction from more pressing problems,
the inevitable spread of general-purpose technology, the nature
of intelligence, productivity growth and labor disruptions, “the
containment problem,” the importance of scale, Moore’s law,
Inflection AI, open-source LLMs, changing the norms of work and
leisure, the redistribution of value, introducing friction into
the deployment of AI, regulatory capture, a misinformation
apocalypse, digital watermarks, asymmetric threats, conflict and
cooperation with China, supply-chain monopolies, and other
topics.


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