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Published · transcript-backedEliezer Yudkowsky: belief
6 Apr 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality
“I don’t think we’re going to live in that sane world. I think we are all going to die.”
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- Speaker
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Apr 2023
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…The concern is then that — there’s millions of GPUs out there in the world. The actors who would be willing to cooperate or who could even be identified in order to get the government to make them cooperate, would potentially be the ones that are most on the message. And so what you’re left with is a system where they stagnate for six months or a year or however long this lasts. And then what is the game plan? Is there some plan by which if we wait a few years, then alignment will be solved? Do we have some sort of timeline like that? Alignment will not be solved in a few years. I would hope for something along the lines of human intelligence enhancement works. I do not think they’re going to have the timeline for genetically engineered humans to work but maybe? This is why I mentioned in the Time letter that if I had infinite capability to dictate the laws that there would be a carve-out on biology, AI that is just for biology and not trained on text from the internet. Human intelligence enhancement, make people smarter. Making people smarter has a chance of going right in a way that making an extremely smart AI does not have a realistic chance of going right at this point. If we were on a sane planet, what the sane planet does at this point is shut it all down and work on human intelligence enhancement. I don’t think we’re going to live in that sane world. I think we are all going to die. But having heard that people are more open to this outside of California, it makes sense to me to just try saying out loud what it is that you do on a saner planet and not just assume that people are not going to do that. In what percentage of the worlds where humanity survives is there human enhancement? Like even if there’s 1% chance humanity survives, is that entire branch dominated by the worlds where there’s some sort of human intelligence enhancement?…
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