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31 Oct 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover
“Like, maybe most saliently here, if you want to use some biological weapons or some crazy shit that might just kill humans, I think you might kill humans just from totally destroying the ecosystems they're dependent on.”
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- Paul Christiano
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- 31 Oct 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…They'll get in your way, they control shit you want. Also, taking shit from humans is a different like, marginalizing humans and causing humans to be irrelevant is a very different story from killing the humans. I think. I'd say the actual incentives to kill the humans are quite weak. Such as I think the big reasons you kill humans are like, well, one, you might kill humans if you're in a war with them, and it's hard to win the war without killing a bunch of humans. Like, maybe most saliently here, if you want to use some biological weapons or some crazy shit that might just kill humans, I think you might kill humans just from totally destroying the ecosystems they're dependent on. And it's slightly expensive to keep them alive anyway. You might kill humans just because you don't like them or like, you literally want to neutralize a threat. Or the leaser line is that they're made of atoms you could use for something else.…
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