Nuclear Weapons
topic on 6 shows · 15 statements across 14 episodes
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15 statements about Nuclear Weapons, every show
Ayrey: AI alignment should prioritize cyber threats over nuclear weapon creation
“I think when it comes to alignment issues, no one needs to worry about these models making it materially easy to build nuclear weapons, because you need to procure fissile material to do that. It's not going to make it easier to build weapons. Everyone needs t…”
Graham Allison: 90 to 95 nations could develop nuclear arms within two years
“Today, 90, 95 states could have nuclear weapons in a year or two if they decided to build them.”
Smith: China is manufacturing 100 nuclear weapons per year
“China's building a hundred nuclear weapons a year.”
Coogan: Polymarket odds of Iran getting a 2025 nuke hit daily high after strikes
“Bombing of the nuclear facility did not push down the market odds of Iran possessing a nuclear weapon in twenty-twenty-five. In fact, it's at the highest level of the day.”
Hotz: AI is a far better military technology than nuclear weapons
“So, like, as a military technology, nukes are not that good. AI is way better.”
Kolter: Comparing AI to nuclear weapons is an overstated, flawed analogy
“The nuclear weapon analogy is actually not a great one, because nuclear weapons have one purpose, which is to destroy things. Maybe a better analogy is sort of nuclear technology, period, because it has the ability to create nuclear weapons, but it also has th…”
Narayanan: Comparing AI to nuclear weapons is a category error
“I think it's a bit of a category error there. I mean, a nuclear weapon is an actual weapon. AI is not a weapon.”
Shaun Maguire claims Iran has recently obtained nuclear weapons
“Allegedly they have just recently obtained nuclear weapons.”
Maguire: War is now required to strip Iran of nuclear weapons
“If you want to go the path of removing nuclear weapons from Iran, then we're at the point now where there has to be war.”
Matt Clifford: Current AI Is Not More Powerful Than Nuclear Weapons
“I don't think AI today is more powerful than nuclear weapons.”
Trump predicts Iran could acquire a nuclear weapon within 90 days
“And within 90 days or so, they're gonna have and could have very well a nuclear weapon”
Teller: AI catastrophe ranks far behind climate change and nuclear weapons
“I think that the world is overrun with serious problems. I would put at the top of that list, climate change. Nowhere close to second place. I would put nuclear weapons, just since we use that as an example, and I would put AI doing something particularly horr…”
Sacks: Russia has 6,000 nuclear weapons usable if existentially threatened
“The Russians have 6000 nuclear weapons, and their military doctrine says they can use them, If they feel that they're existentially threatened.”
Sacks: US should use nuclear weapons only in self-defense against nuclear attack
“The United States of America should never use nukes except if nukes are used on us.”