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A majority of Americans now think AI could destroy humanity (opens the original)
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Why Would AI Want to Kill Us? With Nate Soares (opens the original)
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It has been a huge week for AI safety. For those of us deeply concerned about this historically niche cause, it has felt a bit like one’s cult emo band has suddenly rocketed to the top of the charts. People suddenly care, a lot. And for good reason. The principal reason is this tweet — the most viral tweet in recent memory — suggesting that the frontier labs do not have it figured out, and that we are on the edge of a dangerous precipice. (FWIW, I tend to agree with the tweet’s concerns.) Calibr
You are wrong about how wrong the other side is (opens the original)
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Today I’m publishing the YouTube version of my interview with Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. Link below.One of the most important threads in the conversation is that we hold a lot of incorrect beliefs that make things seem worse than they are.For example, we think crime is rising when it has been on a downward trend for decades. We think there are more
Steven Pinker on Revolutions, Rogue AI, and the Struggle for Reality (opens the original)
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Dr. Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist at Harvard, a 2x Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of notable works like The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. Today we discuss his research on the psychology of common knowledge and what it means for democracy in a time of infinite AI slop and social media confusion. We also dive into deeper philosophical questions on AI consciousness and rogue AI — note that this was recorded before the recent H
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