A Sober Conversation About AI Existential Risk — With Nate Soares
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A Sober Conversation About AI Existential Risk — With Nate Soares

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 16, 202654 min
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  • Technology

Nate Soares is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Soares joins Big Technology to discuss why he believes superintelligent AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. Tune in to hear his case for why increasingly capable AI systems could develop goals humans cannot reliably control, and how that could ultimately lead to humans losing power over the future. We also cover recent examples of AI agents behaving unexpectedly, whether intelligence necessarily leads to greater danger, the limits of current alignment techniques, and why Soares argues for international coordination...

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Let's have a sober conversation about the existential risk we can face from AI with the president of the organization that's been sounding the alarm the longest. That's coming up right after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for Coolheaded and nuanced conversation

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of the tech world and beyond. Well, we have debated the existential risk we can face from AI on this show many times, talking all about the incentives that the labs have for playing up the threat, whether the whistleblowers are legit.

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I think it is long past time to have a sober conversation about the actual risks that we can face from super intelligent AI. And today joining us is Nate Soros.

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