Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence

By Brandon Sanders & Ted Sarvata

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

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April 15, 20170040: If it were superintelligent, it would be hard to argue with
Concerning AI is the podcast about two questions:
Is there a credible existential threat to humanity from a future superhuman AI?
If yes, what do we do about it?
We thought we’d start to catalog possible answers to that 2nd question. Here’s what we have so far:
As Fast As Possible (AFAP). We discussed this a few episodes ago: Concerning AI: Episode XXXIV – A New Hope.
Listener Feedback
Randy’s email
Thinking, Fast and Slow book by Daniel Kahneman
Eric’s voice memo (Yes, please do more of this everyone! Send them to [email protected])
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s novel Children of Time
Rico’s email about augmenting humans as a way to AI safety
Elon’s new company Neuralink
We barely touched on it on the show, but this whole thread is gold: intentional anthropomorphization thesis, inclding John’s quote
Subscribe in Overcast, iTunes, or through our feed. Please send your feedback for us to use on the show as a voice memo attachment in an email to [email protected]
recorded April 2, 2017
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0040-2017-04-02.mp3
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March 31, 20170039: We Need More Sparrow Fables
(0:00) The Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows, from Superintelligence by Bostrom
Followup to 0038: We Don’t Want to Die
(3:12) fitness / utility function and “Is this all there is”
(5:33) Joy VanBuskirk‘s comment and efficiency
(9:19) Orthogonality Thesis: Orthogonality Thesis at Less Wrong
(23:57) Instrumental Convergence Thesis
(31:24) What is the connection?
(32:57) Call to action
(33:29) Would it make sense to explore the two dimensional space of types of goals vs levels of intelligence?
(35:26) We need more fables. Send voice memos (preferred), images or text to [email protected]
(39:00) After-show: post-hoc justification for this episode
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0039-2017-03-25.mp3
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March 17, 20170038: We Don’t Want to Die
This show is about two questions:
Is there a credible existential threat to humanity from a future superhuman AI?
If yes, what do we do about it?
We thought we’d start to catalog possible answers to that 2nd question. Here’s what we have so far:
As Fast As Possible (AFAP). We discussed this a few episodes ago: Concerning AI: Episode XXXIV – A New Hope.
The Locality Effect. We talked about this back on episodes 0026: The Locality Principle and 0027: Listener Feedback and the Locality Effect
Folowup
0036: Baby You Can Drive My Car about self-driving cars
email from Randy about intention lights
Ed Orman‘s idea:
0037: Listeners Gone Wild about fitness functions
John Stoner‘s comment and subsequent thread
Facebook Group
Don’t fear super intelligent AI TED talk and resulting Facebook group discussion
Grady Booch and Neil deGrasse Tyson don’t think it’s possible to build machines as smart as us
Book recommendation
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0038-2017-03-12.mp3
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March 04, 20170037: 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 Learning
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0037-2017-02-26.mp3
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February 21, 20170036: Baby You Can Drive My Car
Main topic of this show: Unexpected Consequences of Self Driving Cars by Rodney Brooks
Send us your feedback:
Use your phone’s voice memo app to record a minute or less message and send to [email protected]
Drop us a note at the Concerning AI Facebook group.
Subscribe in Overcast, iTunes, or through our feed.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0036-2017-02-19.mp3
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February 15, 2017 0035: New Water Story
What should our values be?
Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars
Elon: How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars (Wait But Why)
Putting Time in Perspective (Wait But Why)
Join in! What’s your candidate story as a replacement for the consumption story? Concerning AI Facebook group
Article about the New Story. http://yesmagazine.org/pdf/kortennewstory.pdf
Discuss this episode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ConcerningAI/permalink/1364502150268703/
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February 08, 2017 Concerning AI: Episode XXXIV – A New Hope
(0:32) AI Panel Superintelligence: Science or Fiction? – (youtube) (discussion in Concerning AI Facebook group)
(1:14) Going as fast as we can now and hardware overhang
(6:50) Tell us why this is wrong
(7:08) What are you excited about with AI? Philosophy on a deadline. Making us better humans
(19:21) CPG Gray video Humans Need Not Apply

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January 31, 2017 0033: Mind Game and the Curse of Dimensionality
Wind up your propeller hats! This one is a doozy. Hopefully someone can explain it to me (Ted).
(0:00) Welcome
(0:54) Followup (link)
Rodney Brooks Article link
What’s your prediction for superintelligence (in numbers)? (link)
(6:04) Thought Exercise – Gradient
(19:20) Curse of Dimensionality
(30:28) Why do this thought experiment?
What are your favorite visualizations?
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January 25, 2017 0032: Westworld
If you’d like to send us links or better show notes, please feel free and we’ll add them here. Best way to get in touch is the Concerning AI facebook group.
(0:20) Brandon derails us to propose a labeling system so we could talk about our various points of view. Brandon is a 5-30-70. Ted is a 15-30-50. Where are you?
(7:59) Self-driving cars. Too bad we hadn’t read this before recording! http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driving-cars/
(8:35) Ted fails to give credit to Roy Amara.
(9:27) Westworld – SPOILER ALERT
Wait But Why ladder of intelligence (turns out it’s a staircase)
(34:00) Teasing next episode
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0032-2017-01-22.mp3
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January 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 this episode comes from that group. Thank you all!
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