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Carl Shulman: belief

14 Jun 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment

“I think that probably won't happen and later I can maybe give a more exclusive breakdown of why.”

— Carl Shulman

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Speaker
Carl Shulman
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
14 Jun 2023
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…My picture of aligned subhuman AI to the superhuman AI being aligned is still murky. If you can talk about that more concretely. Eliezer’s claims were something like 95%, 98% plus likely to be killed in an AI takeover. I think that probably won't happen and later I can maybe give a more exclusive breakdown of why. But I do want to clarify that I still think it's a shockingly high risk. Depending on the day I might say one in four or one in five that we get an AI takeover that seizes control of the future, makes a much worse world than we otherwise would have had and with a big chance that we're all killed in the process.…

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