Podcast: Future of Life Institute Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1% )
Episode: Ajeya Cotra on how Artificial Intelligence Could Cause Catastrophe
Release date: 2022-11-03

Ajeya Cotra joins us to discuss how artificial intelligence could cause catastrophe.

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Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:53 AI safety research in general 02:04 Realistic scenarios for AI catastrophes 06:51 A dangerous AI model developed in the near future 09:10 Assumptions behind dangerous AI development 14:45 Can AIs learn long-term planning? 18:09 Can AIs understand human psychology? 22:32 Training an AI model with naive safety features 24:06 Can AIs be deceptive? 31:07 What happens after deploying an unsafe AI system? 44:03 What can we do to prevent an AI catastrophe? 53:58 The next episode