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31 Oct 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover
“I mean, in the near term I think harms from misuse are like especially if you’re not restricting to the tale of extremely large catastrophes.”
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- Paul Christiano
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- belief
- Recorded
- 31 Oct 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…And by the way, which one are you worried about more misuse or misalignment? I mean, in the near term I think harms from misuse are like especially if you’re not restricting to the tale of extremely large catastrophes. I think the harms from misuse are clearly larger in the near term. But actually on that, let me ask because if you think that it is the case that there are simple recipes for destruction that are further down the tech tree by that I mean you’re familiar. But just for the audience there’s some way to configure $50,000 and a teenager’s time to destroy a civilization. If that thing is available, then misuses itself a teal risk, right? So do you think that that prospect is less likely than a way you could put it?…
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