Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedElon Musk: uncertainty
2 Aug 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
“Why do anything at all? And so, if our simple limbic system provides a source of will to do something, that then goes through our cortex, that then goes to our tertiary compute layer, then I don’t know, it might actually be that the AI, in a benign scenario, is simply trying to make the human limbic system happy.”
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- Speaker
- Elon Musk
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- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 2 Aug 2024
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Yeah. But what I’m saying is that, yes, is there a use for humans? Well, there’s this fundamental question of what’s the meaning of life? Why do anything at all? And so, if our simple limbic system provides a source of will to do something, that then goes through our cortex, that then goes to our tertiary compute layer, then I don’t know, it might actually be that the AI, in a benign scenario, is simply trying to make the human limbic system happy. Yeah. It seems like the will is not just about the limbic system. There’s a lot of interesting, complicated things in there. We also want power.…
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