Spartz: Meaningful Chance Advanced AI Escapes Control and Kills Everyone
Emerson Spartz · Unlock Your Super-Learning Potential: Learn from Emerson Spartz, Founder of Dose and MuggleNet · Feb 16, 2023 · at 15:49
Emerson Spartz explains why he focuses on mitigating existential risk from artificial intelligence.
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“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.”
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