Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is the author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Mind, and recently wrote an article titled AIs Will Be Our Children for Quilette, which makes up much of the focus of this episode.
In it, we cover:
00:00 - Intro
06:30 - AI risk & doomers
11:00 - AI is our descendants
13:45 - Foom
16:45 - Transition to superinteligence
21:00 - Passing on genes to AI
33:30 - Human consciousness
43:00 - Human job displacement
49:30 - will people want to be robots?
50:00 - Brain-Computer Interfaces
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By Tom EdwardsRobin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is the author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Mind, and recently wrote an article titled AIs Will Be Our Children for Quilette, which makes up much of the focus of this episode.
In it, we cover:
00:00 - Intro
06:30 - AI risk & doomers
11:00 - AI is our descendants
13:45 - Foom
16:45 - Transition to superinteligence
21:00 - Passing on genes to AI
33:30 - Human consciousness
43:00 - Human job displacement
49:30 - will people want to be robots?
50:00 - Brain-Computer Interfaces
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.