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 26, 20160020: AI in Fiction
Neil deGrasse Tyson says it’s ‘very likely’ the universe is a simulation
Chinese team genetically modifies human embryo, using CRISPR gene-editing technique
More from Jose Morales in the Facebook Concerning AI group.
Bostrom on Good-Story Bias
Brandon’s story he’s been teasing the last few episodes
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Crystal Society by Max Harms
Concerning AI 0018: The One True Doomsday
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0020-2016-04-24.mp3
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April 11, 20160019: Do Ethics Give Cyborgs or Robots an Advantage?
Some stuff we talked about:
Comments on episode 0018:
Eric Saumur’s -11 civilizations comment
Lyle Cantor‘s comment about the selection effect and therefore how wrong our conclusions were.
Jose Morales’s sci-fi recommendations.
Stones of Significance by David Brin
The Golden Age Trilogy (Golden Age #1,2,3) by John C. Wright
Evan Prodromou asked “So, when do we get a Roko’s Basilisk episode?” and linked to this Slate article: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0019-2016-04-10.mp3
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April 05, 20160018: The One True Doomsday
So Far by Bryan Caplan
Response from Eliezer Yudkowsky
Further Response from Bryan Caplan
Comment by Nick Zetton in Concerning AI FB bringing up the Y2K situation.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0018-2016-04-03.mp3
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April 01, 20160017: Give them the moon
The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement
Microsoft is deleting its AI chatbot’s incredibly racist tweets
Reminder that Ben’s going to tell us something about the New Story
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0017-2016-03-27.mp3
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March 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.
hour-long talk by Demis Hassabis explaining DeepMind including how general it is (skip 1st 5 minutes – AlphaGo begins around 27:30, includes history of go, how to play, why it’s hard for computers, 36:30 – 54:30 is technical part of how AlphaGo works (after that is real-world applications and ethics), Q&A starts 57:00
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0016-2016-03-23.mp3
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March 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.
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March 02, 2016 0014: What if AI aren’t “Other”? – A kinder gentler podcast
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0014-2016-02-28.mp3
Apologies to Ben and our listeners for the way we treated Ben’s comments on episode 0013. We treated the conversation as if there was an Other involved and we needed to somehow defend ourselves.
In today’s world, we treat AIs the same way we treat hammers, not as entities with any consideration necessary at all, as the Other, with no moral standing at all. It is inherently obvious that today’s AIs aren’t people, just as it was inherently obvious at other times in history that those considered Other were not human, less than human. Red flag?
From now on, we seek to come from a place or empathy on this show, even when it seems to not make sense. There’s nothing to win here.
We didn’t read this before recording the show: Wikipedia: Other.
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February 25, 20160013: Listener Feedback
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0013-2016-02-21.mp3
IBM Watson AI X-Prize
From Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Kindle Locations 2497-2500). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.
The orthogonality thesis holds (with some caveats) that intelligence and final goals are independent variables: any level of intelligence could be combined with any final goal.
The instrumental convergence thesis holds that superintelligent agents having any of a wide range of final goals will nevertheless pursue similar intermediary goals because they have common instrumental reasons to do so.
Devin’s comment
Ben’s first comment (and Eric’s response and Ben’s response to that)
Ben’s second comment
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February 18, 2016 0012: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 2)
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0012-2016-02-14.mp3
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!
@evanpro (Twitter)
fuzzy.io (Evan’s current AI venture)
Evan Prodromou on Wikipedia
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February 16, 2016 0011: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 1)
http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0011-2016-02-14.mp3
This episode is the 1st 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!
@evanpro (Twitter)
fuzzy.io (Evan’s current AI venture)
Evan Prodromou on Wikipedia

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