Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris
Scared of superintelligent AI? You should be, says neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris -- and not just in some theoretical way. We're going to build superhuman machines, says Harris,...
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I'm going to talk about a failure of intuitionthat many of us suffer from.It's really a failure to detect a certain kind of danger.I'm going to describe a scenariothat I think is both terrifyingand likely to occur,and that's not a good combination,as it turns out.And yet rather than be scared, most of you will feelthat what I'm talking about is kind of cool.I'm going to describe how the gains we makein artificial intelligencecould ultimately destroy us.And in fact, I think it's very difficult to see how they won't destroy usor inspire us to destroy ourselves.And yet if you're anything like me,you'll find that it's fun to think about these things.And that response is part of the proble...
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I'm going to talk about a failure of intuitionthat many of us suffer from.It's really a failure to detect a certain kind of danger.I'm going to describe a scenariothat I think is both terrifyingand likely to occur,and that's not a good combination,as it turns out.And yet rather than be scared, most of you will feelthat what I'm talking about is kind of cool.I'm going to describe how the gains we makein artificial intelligencecould ultimately destroy us.And in fact, I think it's very difficult to see how they won't destroy usor inspire us to destroy ourselves.And yet if you're anything like me,you'll find that it's fun to think about these things.And that response is part of the proble...
