Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence

By Brandon Sanders & Ted Sarvata

What's Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence about?

We explore our concerns about intelligent machines (Artificial Intelligence), how valid those concerns are, and what actions we might take.

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0070: We Don’t Get to Choose

10.23.2018

Or do we? http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0070-2018-09-30.mp3

Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence episodes:

10.23.2018 0070: We Don’t Get to Choose Or do we? http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0070-2018-09-30.mp3
07.23.2018 0068: Sanityland: More on Assassination Squads Sane or insane?
07.06.2018 0067: The OpenAI Charter (and Assassination Squads) We love the OpenAI Charter. This episode is an introduction to the document and gets pretty dark. Lots more to come on this topic!
05.03.2018 0066: The AI we have is not the AI we want http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0066-2018-04-01.mp3
04.19.2018 0065: AGI Fire Alarm There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence by Eliezer Yudkowsky http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0065-2018-03-18.mp3
03.02.2018 0061: Collapse Will Save Us Some believe civilization will collapse before the existential AI risk has a chance to play out. Are they right?
11.21.2017 0054: Predictions of When We often talk about how know one really knows when the singularity might happen (if it does), when human-level AI will exist (if ever), when we might see superintelligence, etc. Back in January, we made up a 3 number system ...
09.05.2017 0047: Paths to AGI #2: Robots This is our 2nd episode thinking about possible paths to superintelligence focusing on one kind of narrow AI each show. This episode is about embodiment and robots. It's possible we never really agreed about what we were talking about and ...
08.29.2017 0048: AI XPrize and Thrival Festival (special mini-episode) For show notes, please see https://concerning.ai/2017/08/29/0048-ai-xprize-and-thrival-festival-special-mini-episode/
05.22.2017 0042: Listener Feedback Listener Feedback this episode
05.05.2017 0041: Can Neuralink Save Us? Tim Urban's article at Wait But Why: Elon Musk's Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future
04.15.2017 0040: If it were superintelligent, it would be hard to argue with Mostly a listener feedback episode. Lots of great stuff here!
03.31.2017 0039: We Need More Sparrow Fables We need better language to talk about these difficult technical topics. See https://concerning.ai/2017/03/31/0039-we-need-more-sparrow-fables/ for notes.
02.21.2017 0036: Baby You Can Drive My Car Main topic of this show: Unexpected Consequences of Self Driving Cars by Rodney Brooks
02.15.2017 0035: New Water Story What should our values be? Could "Life is Precious" replace the Consumption Story?
01.17.2017 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 ...
01.12.2017 0030: Season 2, Episode 1 It's been a while since we recorded. What have we been up to?
09.29.2016 0027: Listener Feedback and the Locality Effect Korey’s comment: … one question you asked on ‘The Locality Principle’, was what other people are doing to avert a possible AIpocalypse; I’m starting a company! An entertainment venture with one driving purpose: to create a fully realized virtual world, ...
09.12.2016 0025: The Concerning AI Summer is Over Some things we talked about: Companies developing narrow AI, not giving one thought about AI safety, because just getting the thing to work at all is really hard. Self-driving cars and how fast they’re progressing Difference between Open AI and ...
06.10.2016 0023: That Would Just Be Absurd Are people better than robots?
05.09.2016 0021: Some of ’em wear dapper suits We want robot surgeons, bus and taxi drivers and investment advisors. Do you?
04.01.2016 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?
03.26.2016 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.
03.14.2016 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.
02.16.2016 0011: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 1) Evan's awesome. Great to talk with a bona fide AI practitioner. Just getting things started.
02.11.2016 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 ...
02.04.2016 0009: Deep Learning What the heck is deep learning?
12.28.2015 0008: Exponentials Exponentials are powerful and very difficult to understand (because we think linearly)
12.01.2015 0007: Cosmists, Terrans, and Cyborgists Are we cosmists or terrans?
11.17.2015 0006: Compassion Are we missing "compassion" when thinking about our AI descendants?
11.10.2015 0005: Paths to Superintelligence How might we get to superintelligence? This episode explores some possible paths, or maybe simply directions.
10.19.2015 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
10.03.2015 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 ...
09.22.2015 0002: Consciousness Following up on last episode's question, "What is intelligence?" this episode we attempt to unpack "consciousness."
09.15.2015 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.
09.09.2015 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.
08.16.2015 -1: Embodiment Does an AI need embodiment?
07.01.2015 -2: Shock Levels Shock levels
07.01.2015 -3: Running Toward or Running Away Is it better to run toward something (compelling) or away from something (scary)?
07.01.2015 -4: And So It Begins And So It Begins! We didn't used to be concerned about artificial intelligence, but now we are.

Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence

What's Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence episodes:

0070: We Don’t Get to Choose

0068: Sanityland: More on Assassination Squads

0067: The OpenAI Charter (and Assassination Squads)

0066: The AI we have is not the AI we want

0065: AGI Fire Alarm

0061: Collapse Will Save Us

0054: Predictions of When

0047: Paths to AGI #2: Robots

0048: AI XPrize and Thrival Festival (special mini-episode)

0042: Listener Feedback

0041: Can Neuralink Save Us?

0040: If it were superintelligent, it would be hard to argue with

0039: We Need More Sparrow Fables

0036: Baby You Can Drive My Car

0035: New Water Story

0031: Listener Feedback

0030: Season 2, Episode 1

0027: Listener Feedback and the Locality Effect

0025: The Concerning AI Summer is Over

0023: That Would Just Be Absurd

0021: Some of ’em wear dapper suits

0017: Give them the moon

0016: More on AlphaGo

0015: AlphaGo goes up 3-1 on Lee Sedol

0011: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 1)

0010: Don’t Worry, Be Happy

0009: Deep Learning

0008: Exponentials

0007: Cosmists, Terrans, and Cyborgists

0006: Compassion

0005: Paths to Superintelligence

0004: Prioritization of Risks

0003: Skeptics

0002: Consciousness

0001: What is Intelligence?

0000: Reboot as Concerning AI

-1: Embodiment

-2: Shock Levels

-3: Running Toward or Running Away

-4: And So It Begins

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