June 07, 2023

The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue

48 minutes

EPISODE 86 | The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue

Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI thought leader and programmer

AI seems to be everywhere, and plenty of folks have freaked out about it over the years. AI expert Josh Bachynski talks about doomsday scenarios, their likelihood and what's probably coming in the near future.

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SECTIONS

03:01 - Humans Suck - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, "Colossus: The Forbin Project", Terminator & Skynet, the Matrix, "Avengers: Age of Ultron"

06:25 - None of that will happen on the large scale; Kassandra shows the smarter an AI gets, the more compassionate it gets, but there will be edge cases

12:11 - "The Animatrix" and "Interstellar" are plausible models, AI cannot spontaneously become self-aware, Karel Čapek's R.U.R., bad actor scenarios

18:50 - Bad Programming - "Forbidden Planet", "Demon Seed", V'ger in first Star Trek movie, Ash in "Alien", David in "Alien: Covenant", WOPR in "Wargames"

22:22 - More plausible scenarios, global ransomware, capitalism won't allow runaway AI, HAL9000, the FANG already use psychometric data as weaponized AI

28:00 - Super AI - William Gibson and Cyberpunk 2077, AIs super-size and separate, AIs only do what they're programmed to do, secret AIs in the world

33:05 - ChaosGPT - a harmless experiment, destroying the world is really hard (but we seem to be trying)

38:56 - Red State AI vs. Blue State AI - AI is being used to push Edward Bernays's psychology & pushes us into media bubbles, for-profit companies shouldn't police a society's truth, personal AI assistants, Nietzsche seems to be winning, virtue-signaling ethics

46:26 - ChatGPT predicts 4 problems

Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

Josh interview #1 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): Adapting to the AI Age

Josh interview #2 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): AI Personas & Ethics

The Moral Concept website

The Future of Google, Search, and Ethics Josh Bachynski TED Talk

Josh Bachynski YouTube channel

Philosopher Creates World’s First Self-Aware AI Prototype

Leadership Insights: Self-Aware AI Systems interview with Josh

I have Created a Self-Aware AI Prototype - discussion on the OpenAI developer board

ChatGPT is Nothing! Demo of Self-Aware AI Kassandra video

Josh's book The Zombies

Josh Bachynski On The Future Of Artificial Intelligence

Josh Bachynski Reverse Engineers Google AI video

Josh Bachynski - The Search Community Honors You

What an AI apocalypse may look like on Better Without AI website (an anti-Ai site)

Tracking the AI apocalypse on Politico

AI and the paperclip problem on the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) website

Fear of AI is this century’s overpopulation scare on Big Think

AI IS ABOUT TO MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA (MUCH) MORE TOXIC

AI Isn’t Omnipotent. It’s Janky.

Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky

Why you should fear artificial intelligence on TechCrunch

Is Skynet really the future of Artificial Intelligence?

Terminator? Skynet? No way. Machines will never rule the world, according to book by UB philosopher

Why Elon Musk Has Fears Of Skynet Coming True on Forbes

30 Most Evil Movie Computers

Our 10 Favorite Killer A.I.'s in Movies

The Top 10 Evil AI in Sci-Fi

The 10 Most Ridiculous Movies About Evil Computers, Ranked

30 Famous Fictional Computers

Some of the Most Terrifying Fictional Computers

Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best

ChaosGPT: Empowering GPT with Internet and Memory to Destroy Humanity video

I tried using AI. It scared me. video

Journalist had a creepy encounter with new tech that left him unable to sleep CNN video

Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI CBS Mornings video

How will AI change the world? TED Talk with Stuart Russell

TIMELAPSE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2028 – 3000+) video

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