WARNING By Sam Harris: ChatGPT Could Be The Start Of The End. AI "Could Destroy Us, The Internet And Democracy"

artificial intelligence is superhuman. It is smarter than you are. And there's something inherently dangerous for the dumber party in that relationship. Just can't put the genie back in the bottle. Sam Harris, neuroscientist, philosopher, author, podcaster. He goes into intellectual territory where few others dare tread. Six years ago you did a TED talk. The gains we make in artificial intelligence could ultimately destroy us. If your objective is to make humanity happy and there was a button placed in front of you and it would end

Artificial intelligence, what would you do? Well I would definitely Pause it. The idea that we've lost the moment to decide whether to hook our most powerful AI to everything is just oh It's already connected to the internet. Got millions of people using it. And the idea that these things will stay aligned with us because we have built them. Yet we gave them a capacity to rewrite their code.

There's just no reason to believe that. And I worry about the near term problem of what humans do with increasingly powerful AI. How it amplifies misinformation. Most of what's online could soon be free. Can we hold a presidential election eighteen months from now that we recognize as valid, right? Like is it safe? And it just gets scarier and scarier. I worry we're just gonna have to declare bankruptcy to the internet. If your intuition is correct, are you optimistic about our chances of survival? Mm.

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