Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSatya Nadella: belief
19 Feb 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
“You can say, oh, that's all alignment and this, that, and the other. That's why I think you have to really get these alignments to work and be verifiable in some way, but I just don't think that you can deploy intelligences that are out of control.”
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- 19 Feb 2025
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…As in, we won't be able to deploy these kinds of intelligences until we figure out how to…? Absolutely. Because at the end of the day, there is no way. Today, you cannot deploy these intelligences unless and until there's someone indemnifying it as a human. To your point, I think that's one of the reasons why I think about even the most powerful AI is essentially working with some delegated authority from some human. You can say, oh, that's all alignment and this, that, and the other. That's why I think you have to really get these alignments to work and be verifiable in some way, but I just don't think that you can deploy intelligences that are out of control. For example, this AI takeoff problem may be a real problem, but before it is a real problem, the real problem will be in the courts. No society is going to allow for some human to say, "AI did that." Yes. Well, there's a lot of societies in the world, and I wonder if any one of them might not have a legal system that might be more amenable. And if you can't have a takeoff, then you might worry. It doesn't have to happen in America, right?…
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