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251 - Eliezer Yudkowsky: Artificial Intelligence and the End of Humanity

251 - Eliezer Yudkowsky: Artificial Intelligence and the End of Humanity

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Eliezer Yudkowsky is a decision theorist, computer scientist, and
author who co-founded and leads research at the Machine
Intelligence Research Institute. He is best known for his work on
the alignment problem—how and whether we can ensure that AI is
aligned with human values to avoid catastrophe and harness its
power. In this episode, Robinson and Eliezer run the gamut on
questions related to AI and the danger it poses to human
civilization as we know it. More particularly, they discuss the
alignment problem, gradient descent, consciousness, the
singularity, cyborgs, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude, how
long we have until doomsday, whether it can be averted, and the
various reasons why and ways in which AI might wipe out human
life on earth.

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute:
https://intelligence.org/about/

Eliezer’s X Account:
https://x.com/ESYudkowsky?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

OUTLINE

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:43 The Default Condition for AI’s Takeover

00:06:36 Could a Future AI Country Be Our Trade Partner?

00:11:18 What Is Artificial Intelligence?

00:21:23 Why AIs Having Goals Could Mean the End of
Humanity

00:29:34 What Is the Alignment Problem?

00:34:11 How To Avoid AI Apocalypse

00:40:25 Would Cyborgs Eliminate Humanity?

00:47:55 AI and the Problem of Gradient Descent

00:55:24 How Do We Solve the Alignment Problem?

01:00:50 How Anthropic’s AI Freed Itself from Human Control

01:08:56 The Pseudo-Alignment Problem

01:19:28 Why Are People Wrong About AI Not Taking Over the
World?

01:23:23 How Certain Is It that AI Will Wipe Out Humanity?

01:38:35 Is Eliezer Yudkowski Wrong About The AI Apocalypse

01:42:04 Do AI Corporations Control the Fate of Humanity?

01:43:49 How To Convince the President Not to Let AI Kill Us
All

01:52:01 How Will ChatGPT’s Descendants Wipe Out Humanity?

02:24:11 Could AI Destroy us with New Science?

02:39:37 Could AI Destroy us with Advanced Biology?

02:47:29 How Will AI Actually Destroy Humanity?

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University.