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Nate Soares is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). He has been working in the field of artificial intelligence for over a decade, with prior experience as an engineer at Google and Microsoft, a research associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and a contractor for the US Department of Defense.
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00:00 Intro
01:20 Nate’s Origin Story
02:23 Speed of Progress
03:09 The "ASI is far away" argument
06:45 Skepticism about ASI
09:50 AI Competition
14:36 AI Leaders
17:50 Why AI is so unpredictable
23:30 Emergent Abilities
28:15 Evolution Analogy
34:32 AI is not evil, it is efficient
40:40 Counter arguments
42:16 AI keeping us alive
45:18 AI winning = Humanity extinction
49:14 Optimizing objectives
50:49 Anthropic Coercion Study
51:21 AI Blackmail
52:06 Deceptive Alignment
58:16 AI acomplishing objectives
1:00:01 Warning signs
01:04:52 Refuting Counter arguments
01:10:58 Nuclear Reactors
01:19:14 How do we not go extinct?
01:21:34 Monitoring Data Centers
01:25:53 Hope
01:30:30 AI Regulations
01:34:15 The Future
01:35:44 Superintelligence
01:39:05 Probability of Human Extinction
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Nate Soares is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). He has been working in the field of artificial intelligence for over a decade, with prior experience as an engineer at Google and Microsoft, a research associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and a contractor for the US Department of Defense.
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00:00 Intro
01:20 Nate’s Origin Story
02:23 Speed of Progress
03:09 The "ASI is far away" argument
06:45 Skepticism about ASI
09:50 AI Competition
14:36 AI Leaders
17:50 Why AI is so unpredictable
23:30 Emergent Abilities
28:15 Evolution Analogy
34:32 AI is not evil, it is efficient
40:40 Counter arguments
42:16 AI keeping us alive
45:18 AI winning = Humanity extinction
49:14 Optimizing objectives
50:49 Anthropic Coercion Study
51:21 AI Blackmail
52:06 Deceptive Alignment
58:16 AI acomplishing objectives
1:00:01 Warning signs
01:04:52 Refuting Counter arguments
01:10:58 Nuclear Reactors
01:19:14 How do we not go extinct?
01:21:34 Monitoring Data Centers
01:25:53 Hope
01:30:30 AI Regulations
01:34:15 The Future
01:35:44 Superintelligence
01:39:05 Probability of Human Extinction
#Botez #Botezlive #BotezSisters #BotezPodcast #podcast
