Existential Risk

“There are these, like, strong mimetic bubbles in Silicon Valley, where people don't even really think they're busy, and they're like, all my other friends care about existential risk, I'm in, you know.”

“I think you see the discourse shifting now. I think the discourse has begun to shift away from doom and existential risk. And now it's much more about practical concerns, which I'm really happy to see”

“One of the reasons why I kind of advocate very strongly against the existential risk, the robots are coming, you know, Terminator movie, et cetera, is because most of the real bad things to focus on are AI in the hands of, you know, kind of bad human beings. W…”

“By spending too much time debating the existential risk of AI, we actually increase the likelihood that AI will help bring about a dystopian future. The long-term conversation is doing a disservice to the immediate issues that we face.”

“There's many more Practical near-term threats to stability, which we should be focused on rather than talking about existential risk and AGI suddenly emerging and exploding and taking over and manipulating us and taking over armies and all of this kind of fear…”

“To have more folks talk to each other about real risks and let, you know, a small set of folks continue to think about existential risks, but not scare people so much with very interesting sci-fi and just general fiction scenarios that would make fun action mo…”

“There's a Meaningful chance that we are going to make AI so powerful that we will lose control of it. And if we lose control of it, there's all kinds of bad things that can happen, including us all dying.”

“Reducing the probability of existential risk is super important, even if AI is you know, decades or centuries away, and even if we can only, you know, decrease the probability, you know, of that happening by, like.1% or whatever in expectation, that's, like, a…”