Future of Life Institute Podcast (Page 6)

Mar 14, 2024 · Technology & Future

Katja Grace on the Largest Survey of AI Researchers

Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Katja Grace joins the podcast to discuss the largest survey of AI researchers conducted

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Feb 29, 2024 · Existential Risk

Holly Elmore on Pausing AI, Hardware Overhang, Safety Research, and Protesting

Holly Elmore joins the podcast to discuss pausing frontier AI, hardware overhang, safety research during a pause, the social dynamics of AI risk, and what prevents AGI corporations from collaborating.

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Feb 16, 2024 · Ethics & Philosophy

Sneha Revanur on the Social Effects of AI

Sneha Revanur joins the podcast to discuss the social effects of AI, the illusory divide between AI ethics and AI safety, the importance of humans in the loop, the different effects of AI on younger and older people, and the importance of AIs identifying as AIs.

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Feb 2, 2024 · Existential Risk

Roman Yampolskiy on Shoggoth, Scaling Laws, and Evidence for AI being Uncontrollable

Roman Yampolskiy joins the podcast again to discuss whether AI is like a Shoggoth, whether scaling laws will hold for more agent-like AIs, evidence that AI is uncontrollable, and whether designing human-like AI would be safer than the current development path.

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Jan 19, 2024 · Technology & Future

Special: Flo Crivello on AI as a New Form of Life

On this special episode of the podcast, Flo Crivello talks with Nathan Labenz about AI as a new form of life, whether attempts to regulate AI risks regulatory capture, how a GPU kill switch could work, and why Flo expects AGI in 2-8 years.

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Jan 6, 2024 · Existential Risk

Carl Robichaud on Preventing Nuclear War

Carl Robichaud joins the podcast to discuss the new nuclear arms race, how much world leaders and ideologies matter for nuclear risk, and how to reach a stable, low-risk era.

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Dec 14, 2023 · Technology & Future

Frank Sauer on Autonomous Weapon Systems

Frank Sauer joins the podcast to discuss autonomy in weapon systems, killer drones, low-tech defenses against drones, the flaws and unpredictability of autonomous weapon systems, and the political possibilities of regulating such systems.

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Dec 1, 2023 · Existential Risk

Darren McKee on Uncontrollable Superintelligence

Darren McKee joins the podcast to discuss how AI might be difficult to control, which goals and traits AI systems will develop, and whether there's a unified solution to AI alignment.

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Nov 17, 2023 · Governance & Policy

Mark Brakel on the UK AI Summit and the Future of AI Policy

Mark Brakel (Director of Policy at the Future of Life Institute) joins the podcast to discuss the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, objections to AI policy, AI regulation in the EU and US, global institutions for safe AI, and autonomy in weapon systems.

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Nov 3, 2023 · Existential Risk

Dan Hendrycks on Catastrophic AI Risks

Dan Hendrycks joins the podcast again to discuss X.ai, how AI risk thinking has evolved, malicious use of AI, AI race dynamics between companies and between militaries, making AI organizations safer, and how representation engineering could help us understand AI traits like deception.

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