#434 — Can We Survive AI?

Sam Harris speaks with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares about
their new book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case
Against Superintelligent AI. They discuss the alignment problem,
ChatGPT and recent advances in AI, the Turing Test, the
possibility of AI developing survival instincts, hallucinations
and deception in LLMs, why many prominent voices in tech remain
skeptical of the dangers of superintelligent AI, the timeline for
superintelligence, real-world consequences of current AI systems,
the imaginary line between the internet and reality, why Eliezer
and Nate believe superintelligent AI would necessarily end
humanity, how we might avoid an AI-driven catastrophe, the Fermi
paradox, and other topics.


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