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Published · transcript-backedDan Hendrycks: belief
24 Jun 2025 Machine Learning Street Talk Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks)
“I think you could set a society up so that people have the autonomy to choose between different ways that they would want to live their life given the resources that AI increasing GDP could provide.”
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- 24 Jun 2025
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- Machine Learning Street Talk
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…I got that. I want to come back to the geopolitical aspect of it. And I read or I skimmed the paper that you just did with Alexander and Eric. But I don't think I got an answer for the first part which is the upside. I don't think I could lay out the upside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So for upside, I think people generally think that if we have AI it will necessarily hollow out all values or that we'll have an extreme pressure toward 1 of them. That will be zoo animals or we will or we'll be all pleasured out and just you know in our VR experiences constantly and have superficial experiences. I think you could set a society up so that people have the autonomy to choose between different ways that they would want to live their life given the resources that AI increasing GDP could provide. So I think that there is a way you could have a list of objective goods being met society. So I don't think there's no equilibria where things can work out. I think there's a way of achieving a variety of goods and still preserving human autonomy and all that. Like sort of what we have now. Imagine we had things now, but then or we we have the autonomy to choose how we wanna live our lives now, and there'd be more resources. Of us in the West have…
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