What should we do about AI? | Leading thinkers Liv Boeree, Michael Wooldridge, Timothy Nguyen

Liv Boeree, Michael Wooldridge, and Timothy Nguyen discuss the threats that rapid AI development poses to humanity.

Is the doomsday talk overblown or are we seriously in existential danger?

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In the wake of ChatGPT, high profile figures including Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, and Elon Musk called for a temporary halt to AI development, claiming the future of humanity is at stake. But critics argue, with ChatGPT 49% owned by Microsoft, that this is a marketing tactic by Microsoft to build hype around AI and, concurrently, a competitive business tactic by rival tech companies to prevent Microsoft getting too big of a head start. Meanwhile what we really have is not 'artificial intelligence' but 'dumb algorithmic learning systems' which require immediate regulation independent of the tech companies to limit social damage.

Will general artificial intelligence be developed in the near future and should we take the threat of AI taking over from humanity as a genuine and real danger? Or is it alarmist rhetoric designed to distract from the immediate harms that Chat GPT and other learning systems already pose? Or is all talk of artificial intelligence a form of hype that should be renamed Dumb Learning?

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Stephanie Hare is a researcher, broadcaster, and author with expertise in politics, technology and history. Michael Wooldridge, head of the Computer Science department at the University of Oxford, is a leading figure in AI. Liv Boeree is a science communicator, host of the “Win-Win” podcast and one of the most successful female poker players of all time. Timothy Nguyen, a top AI researcher at Google DeepMind, also hosts the podcast "Cartesian Café".


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00:00 Introduction
00:26 ChatGPT audience poll
02:45 Timothy Nguyen explains AI risks
03:48 The risk of an AI takeover
06:09 Michael Wooldridge on general AI
10:02 Liv Boeree on AI alignment

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