AI Doom Debate: Vaden Masrani & Ben Chugg vs. Liron Shapira
Vaden Masrani and Ben Chugg, hosts of the Increments Podcast, are back for a Part II! This time we’re going straight to debating my favorite topic, AI doom.
00:00 Introduction
02:23 High-Level AI Doom Argument
17:06 How Powerful Could Intelligence Be?
22:34 “Knowledge Creation”
48:33 “Creativity”
54:57 Stand-Up Comedy as a Test for AI
01:12:53 Vaden & Ben’s Goalposts
01:15:00 How to Change Liron’s Mind
01:20:02 LLMs are Stochastic Parrots?
01:34:06 Tools vs. Agents
01:39:51 Instrumental Convergence and AI Goals
01:45:51 Intelligence vs. Morality
01:53:57 Mainline Futures
02:16:50 Lethal Intelligence Video
SHOW NOTES
Vaden & Ben’s Podcast: / @incrementspod
Recommended playlists from their podcast:
1. The Bayesian vs Popperian Epistemology Series: • The Bayesian vs Popperian Epistemolog...
2. The Conjectures and Refutations Series: • The Conjectures and Refutations Series
Vaden’s Twitter: https://x.com/vadenmasrani
Ben’s Twitter: https://x.com/BennyChugg
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Watch the Lethal Intelligence video! It’s an AWESOME new animated intro to AI risk: • Lethal AI Guide [Part 1] - The Ultima...
Subscribe to their channel: / @lethal-intelligence
Check out https://lethalintelligence.ai
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