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: https://www.youtube.com/@incrementspod
Recommended playlists from their podcast:
Vaden’s Twitter: https://x.com/vadenmasrani
Ben’s Twitter: https://x.com/BennyChugg
Watch the Lethal Intelligence video and check out LethalIntelligence.ai! It’s an AWESOME new animated intro to AI risk.
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