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There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence by Eliezer Yudkowsky http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0065-2018-03-18.mp3

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Apr 19, 2018

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Is there an existential risk from Human-level (and beyond) Artificial Intelligence? If so, what can we do about it?

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-1: Embodiment: Does an AI need embodiment? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0003: Skeptics: The “skeptic” position seems to be that, although we should probably get a couple of bright people to start working on preliminary aspects of the problem, we shouldn’t panic or start trying to ban AI research. The “believers”, meanwhile, insist that although we shouldn’t panic or start trying to ban AI research, we should probably get a couple of bright people to start working on preliminary aspects of the problem. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0010: Don’t Worry, Be Happy: We haven't found strong arguments on the "Don't be worried. Here's why ..." side of things. We know the arguments must exist, but we can't find them (send them to us!). So, what to do? Make some arguments up, that's what! by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0005: Paths to Superintelligence: How might we get to superintelligence? This episode explores some possible paths, or maybe simply directions. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0007: Cosmists, Terrans, and Cyborgists: Are we cosmists or terrans? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0001: What is Intelligence?: Our goal on this episode is to establish a "good enough" definition of intelligence that we'll be able to refer back to in future episodes. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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-4: And So It Begins: And So It Begins! We didn't used to be concerned about artificial intelligence, but now we are. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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-2: Shock Levels: Shock levels by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0006: Compassion: Are we missing "compassion" when thinking about our AI descendants? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0011: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 1): Evan's awesome. Great to talk with a bona fide AI practitioner. Just getting things started. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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-3: Running Toward or Running Away: Is it better to run toward something (compelling) or away from something (scary)? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0004: Prioritization of Risks: Existential risk – One where an adverse outcome would either annihilate Earth- originating intelligent life or permanently and drastically curtail its potential by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0002: Consciousness: Following up on last episode's question, "What is intelligence?" this episode we attempt to unpack "consciousness." by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0009: Deep Learning: What the heck is deep learning? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0026: The Locality Principle: http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0026-2016-09-18.mp3 These notes won’t be much use without listening to the episode, but if you do listen, one or two of you might find one or two of them helpful. Lyle Cantor‘s comment (excerpt) in the Concerning AI Facebook group: Regarding the OpenAI strategy of making sure we have more than one superhuman AI, this is […] by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0000: Reboot as Concerning AI: This is a reboot. After recording 4 episodes of what we thought would be the Friendly AI podcast, here is Episode 0000 of Concerning AI. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0013: Listener Feedback: Ben's frustrated with us. Let's see if we can figure out why. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0015: AlphaGo goes up 3-1 on Lee Sedol: http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0015-2016-03-13.mp3 Ted talks with special guest Eric Saumur about AlphaGo, compassion, desires and more. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0031: Listener Feedback: Too time constrained for show notes this time. If you want to send us notes to be added here, please do it! Best place to reach is is the Concerning AI group on Facebook. All of the listener feedback in this episode comes from that group. Thank you all! Subscribe in Overcast, iTunes, or through […] by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0008: Exponentials: Exponentials are powerful and very difficult to understand (because we think linearly) by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0012: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 2): This episode is the 2nd (and final) part of our conversation with Evan Prodromou, software developer, open source advocate and AI practitioner extraordinaire. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did! by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0019: Do Ethics Give Cyborgs or Robots an Advantage?: Human augmentation may be a way for humans to advance on par with non-biological beings (AIs), but do ethical guidelines make that less likely to happen? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0018: The One True Doomsday: Throughout history there have been doomsayers, yet we're still here. What makes today's doomsday scenarios different? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0016: More on AlphaGo: Brandon is back and we talk at length about how AlphaGo works and what the implications are, such that we can see with our feeble human minds. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0024: Simulation Revisited: No notes this time, just a speculative conversation about some possible implications of the idea that we could be living in a simulation. Subscribe in Overcast, iTunes, or though our feed. To get in touch with us, visit the Concerning AI Facebook group. http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0024-2016-07-17.mp3 Post-Human Series by David Simpson by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0032: Westworld: In which we talk about Westworld, among other things. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0023: That Would Just Be Absurd: Are people better than robots? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0017: Give them the moon: What would it mean to entangle with technology rather than leave the biosphere behind? Could we just send the AI to the moon? by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0020: AI in Fiction: Fiction is fun. And, we can't rely on it to help us figure out what's going to happen. by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0037: Listeners Gone Wild: Listener Voicemail & Comments Eric’s voicemail Evan’s comment (Our interview with Evan: ep 0011: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 1), ep 0012: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 2) John’s comment Ted got the author’s name wrong Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (25:12) Moving on from Feedback into what’s going to get us from here to there Instantaneous Judgement (Stimulus-Response) Reinforcement […] by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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0060: Peter Scott’s Timeline For Artificial Intelligence Risks: Timeline For Artificial Intelligence Risks Peter’s Superintelligence Year predictions (5% chance, 50%, 95%): 2032/2044/2059 You can get in touch with Peter at HumanCusp.com and Peter@HumanCusp.com For reference (not discussed in this episode): Crisis of Control: How Artificial SuperIntelligences May Destroy Or Save the Human Race by Peter J. Scott http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0060-2018-01-21.mp3 by Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence
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