19 korrents from this recording
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0:01:55 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsIf we continue with the present accelerating pace of the AI race, yes, this will be the result. In 10 years, the AIs will take over. But this is not inevitable.
0:06:11 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAIs will come up with new financial devices far more sophisticated than bonds and stocks, and we will not be able to understand it anymore. Just as cows don't understand checks or stocks, even though these things control their lives.
0:07:58 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI mean, the most important asset in the world is trust. It's more important than oil or money or electricity or chips or anything else, trust.
0:09:16 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo trust did not just evaporate, it shifted from humans to AIs. And this is happening right now. This is not a future prediction.
0:15:37 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Their wordsSo we need to separate the issue of consciousness from agency. You can have agency without consciousness.
0:19:49 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsEntities that cannot suffer, no matter how intelligent they are, they are not moral subjects.
0:25:00 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsBut with an AI CEO, I mean, how do you send an AI CEO to prison?
0:31:00 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsBecause especially in warfare, there is immense pressure to go in that direction because in war, time is everything.
0:32:17 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
The narrative that AI's takeover is inevitable is a narrative of having no responsibility
Their wordsThe narrative of inevitability is a narrative of having no responsibility.
0:32:44 · watch on youtube.com↗
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The deficit of trust that AI leaders say forces them to race was itself created by human decisions
Their wordsNow, the key thing to say about this, this deficit of trust was created by human beings.
0:38:07 · watch on youtube.com↗
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The biggest and most dangerous wave of immigration today is AI immigrants from the USA and China
Their wordsBut the biggest and most dangerous wave of immigration today in the world is a wave of AI immigrants coming from 2 places, mainly the USA and China.
0:40:10 · watch on youtube.com↗
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AI will enable a more extreme imperialism than ever, in which the exporter can switch off your army
Their wordsAnd it'll be a much more extreme type of imperialism than anything we have seen before. If you buy, say, AI drones from the USA and you want to use them, in a way that the USA doesn't like for some reason, there is a button that they press and your army doesn't function.
0:45:36 · watch on youtube.com↗
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Voters should ask candidates about AI more than about the economy, immigration or foreign policy
Their wordsthe crucial questions to ask the potential candidates, much more than you ask them about the economy or immigration or foreign policy: what's your stance on AI?
0:47:54 · watch on youtube.com↗
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Companies should be forbidden to train AIs to impersonate humans or pretend to have feelings
Their wordsAnother thing is that companies should not train their AIs to deliberately impersonate humans, to deliberately pretend to be— to have feelings.
0:55:58 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsevolution doesn't automatically drive organisms, entities, towards truth-seeking. It drives them towards survival.
0:59:20 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsIf a pharmaceutical company told us we invest just 1% of our research and time and money in making sure the medicine is safe, We would not accept that.
1:00:31 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsIf you can't trust the other humans that you have known for thousands of years, why do you think you can trust a super intelligent alien entity that we just created and we basically know nothing about how it behaves when it's out in the open?
1:02:15 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsThey will be active participants in the debate about the catastrophe, and they are the best spin doctors in the, in the world.
1:05:22 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsHumans often do the wrong things, Until they have no choice but to do the right thing.