Is The AI Going To Escape? — With Anthony Aguirre

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How bad could AI go in the worst-case scenario? Let's look beyond the near-term risks and explore what could really happen if the wheels come completely off. That's coming up right after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. Well, on the show we've explored a lot of the downsides of AI, a lot of the near-term risks, the business implications of what happens if things don't continue to accelerate a pace.

We haven't had a dedicated episode looking at what could happen if things really go wrong, and so we're going to do that today. We're joined today by, I think, the perfect guest for this conversation. Anthony Aguirri is here. He's the executive director at the Future of Life Institute and also a professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz. Anthony, great to see you.

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