Sam Harris: Is AI aligned with our human interests?

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"What would a totalitarian society that is not well disposed to our own do if it had God-like power? We don't wanna find out."

Sam Harris' argument for diffusing the AI arms race.

0:00 About our sponsor
0:16 The solution to “God-like AI”
1:20 The risk of self-improving AI
4:30 Two levels of risk
9:08 The AI arms race

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About Sam Harris:

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.

Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over ten languages. He and his work have been discussed in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, Scientific American, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Nature, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere.