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What Demis Hassabis thinks about AI alignment

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  1. Our readingAn end-to-end self-improving AI is probably possible, but it is not even desirable, because it is a hard-takeoff scenario.

    Their wordsI mean potentially that's possible. I would say I'm not sure it's even desirable because that's a kind of hard takeoff scenario.

    ↗Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475youtube.com 9th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingQuoting a number for P(doom) is a ridiculous notion, because it implies a precision that nobody actually has.

    Their wordsWell, look, I don't have a P-Doom number. The reason I don't is because I think it would imply a level of precision that is not there. So I don't know how people are getting their P-Doom numbers. I think it's a little bit of ridiculous notion because what I would say is it's definitely non-zero and it's probably non-negligible.

    ↗Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475youtube.com 19th of 20 in this recording