Kelly Wanser on Climate Change as a Possible Existential Threat
Kelly Wanser from SilverLining joins us to discuss techniques for climate intervention to mitigate the impacts of human induced climate change.
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Examines threats that could permanently curtail humanity's potential or cause human extinction. Includes nuclear warfare, engineered pandemics, climate catastrophe, unaligned AI, and other global catastrophic risks that threaten civilization's long-term survival.
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Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI
It's well-established in the AI alignment literature what happens when an AI system learns or is given an objective that doesn't fully capture what we want.
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Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the Foundations, Benefits, and Possible Existential Threat of AI
Over the past several centuries, the human condition has been profoundly changed by the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
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Sam Harris on Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most
Human civilization increasingly has the potential both to improve the lives of everyone and to completely destroy everything.
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FLI Podcast: On the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life with George Church
Progress in synthetic biology and genetic engineering promise to bring advancements in human health sciences by curing disease, augmenting human capabilities, and even reversing aging.
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On Consciousness, Morality, Effective Altruism & Myth with Yuval Noah Harari and Max Tegmark
Neither Yuval Noah Harari nor Max Tegmark need much in the way of introduction.
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On Consciousness, Morality, Effective Altruism & Myth with Yuval Noah Harari & Max Tegmark
Neither Yuval Noah Harari nor Max Tegmark need much in the way of introduction.
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Max Tegmark
Elon Musk has called it a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future of life on Earth and beyond, while Stephen Hawking and Ray Kurzweil have referred to it as an introduction and guide to the most important conversation of our time.
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