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Connor Leahy on Why Humanity Risks Extinction from AGI

2024/11/22
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Connor Leahy 认为，当前的 AI 竞赛缺乏对潜在风险的充分考量，一些组织和个人在追求 AGI 的过程中，更关注自身利益和意识形态，而非人类的福祉。他指出，AGI 的发展不应以经济利益为主要驱动力，更不能忽视潜在的风险。他主张以更科学、更谨慎的方式进行 AI 研究，并呼吁公众关注 AI 风险，积极参与到 AI 政策的讨论中来。 Got Stocker 作为主持人，引导了对话方向，并提出了一些质疑，例如 AI 进展是否主要由资源而非研究突破驱动、AGI 公司的动机是否与传统企业不同、公众该如何应对 AI 风险等。

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Connor Leahy discusses the motivations behind writing The Compendium, an introduction to AI risk, emphasizing the need to create a comprehensive resource for a non-technical audience and addressing social and political dynamics often overlooked by those with conflicts of interest.
  • The Compendium was a team project aiming to create a comprehensive resource on AI risk.
  • It targets a non-technical audience and addresses arguments scattered across various sources.
  • The book highlights social and political dynamics often ignored due to conflicts of interest.

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Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the motivations of AGI corporations, how modern AI is "grown", the need for a science of intelligence, the effects of AI on work, the radical implications of superintelligence, open-source AI, and what you might be able to do about all of this.   

Here's the document we discuss in the episode:   

https://www.thecompendium.ai  

Timestamps: 

00:00 The Compendium 

15:25 The motivations of AGI corps  

31:17 AI is grown, not written  

52:59 A science of intelligence 

01:07:50 Jobs, work, and AGI  

01:23:19 Superintelligence  

01:37:42 Open-source AI  

01:45:07 What can we do?