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Sara Walker: uncertainty

13 Jun 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

“I think what is happening and will continue to happen is there’s a co-evolution between humans and technology that’s happening, and we’re coexisting in this ecosystem right now and we’re maintaining a lot of the balance. And for the balance to shift to the technology would require some very bad human actors, which is a real risk, or some sort of… I don’t know, some sort of dynamic that favors… I just don’t know how that plays out without human agency actually trying to put it in that direction.”

— Sara Walker

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Sara Walker
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uncertainty
Recorded
13 Jun 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…So the benevolence stories, there’s a benevolent system that’s able to transform our economy, our way of life by just 10Xing the GDP of countries- Well, these are human questions. Right? I don’t think they’re necessarily questions that we’re going to outsource to an artificial intelligence. I think what is happening and will continue to happen is there’s a co-evolution between humans and technology that’s happening, and we’re coexisting in this ecosystem right now and we’re maintaining a lot of the balance. And for the balance to shift to the technology would require some very bad human actors, which is a real risk, or some sort of… I don’t know, some sort of dynamic that favors… I just don’t know how that plays out without human agency actually trying to put it in that direction. It could also be how rapid the rate-…

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