Concerning AI | Existential Risk From Artificial Intelligence

Or do we?   http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0070-2018-09-30.mp3

Ted interviews Jacob Ward, former editor of Popular Science, journalist at many outlets. Jake’s article about the book he’s writing: Black Box Jake’s website JacobWard.com Implicit bias tests at Harvard We discuss the idea that we’re currently using narrow AIs to inform all kinds of decisions, and that we’re trusting those AIs way more than […]

Sane or insane?

We love the OpenAI Charter. This episode is an introduction to the document and gets pretty dark. Lots more to come on this topic!

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There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence by Eliezer Yudkowsky   http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0065-2018-03-18.mp3  

We discuss Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics by Eliezer Yudkowsky   http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0064-2018-03-11.mp3

Ted gave a live talk a few weeks ago.

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Some believe civilization will collapse before the existential AI risk has a chance to play out. Are they right?

Timeline For Artificial Intelligence Risks Peter’s Superintelligence Year predictions (5% chance, 50%, 95%): 2032/2044/2059 You can get in touch with Peter at HumanCusp.com and Peter@HumanCusp.com For reference (not discussed in this episode): Crisis of Control: How Artificial SuperIntelligences May Destroy Or Save the Human Race by Peter J. Scott http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0060-2018-01-21.mp3

SpectreAttack.com               http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0059-2018-01-14.mp3    

There are understandable reasons why accomplished leaders in AI disregard AI risks. We discuss what they might be. Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases Alpha Zero Virtual Reality recorded January 7, 2017, originally posted to Concerning.AI http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0058-2018-01-07.mp3

If the Universe Is Teeming With Aliens, Where is Everybody?                 http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0057-2017-11-12.mp3

Julia Hu, founder and CEO of Lark, an AI health coach, is our guest this episode. Her tech is really cool and clearly making a positive difference in lots of people's lives right now. Longer term, she doesn't see much to worry about.

Ted had a fascinating conversation with Sean Lane, founder and CEO of Crosschx.

We often talk about how know one really knows when the singularity might happen (if it does), when human-level AI will exist (if ever), when we might see superintelligence, etc. Back in January, we made up a 3 number system for talking about our own predictions and asked our community on facebook to play along […]

Great voice memos from listeners led to interesting conversations.

We continue our mini series about paths to AGI. Sam Harris’s podcast about the nature of consciousness Robot or Not podcast See also: 0050: Paths to AGI #3: Personal Assistants 0047: Paths to AGI #2: Robots 0046: Paths to AGI #1: Tools   http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0052-2017-10-08.mp3

Rodney Brooks article: The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI

3rd in a series about future of current narrow AIs.

Read After On by Rob Reid, before you listen or because you listen.

This is our 2nd episode thinking about possible paths to superintelligence focusing on one kind of narrow AI each show. This episode is about embodiment and robots. It's possible we never really agreed about what we were talking about and need to come back to robots. Future ideas for this series include: personal assistants (Siri, Alexa, etc) non-player characters search engines (or maybe those just fall under tools social networks or other big data / working on completely different time / size scale from humans collective intelligence simulation whole-brain emulation augmentation (computer / brain interface) self-driving cars See also:  0046: Paths to AGI #1: Tools Robots learning to pick stuff up Roomba mapping      https://youtu.be/iZhEcRrMA-M https://youtu.be/97hOaXJ5nGU https://youtu.be/tynDYRtRrag https://youtu.be/FUbpCuBLvWM          

For show notes, please see https://concerning.ai/2017/08/29/0048-ai-xprize-and-thrival-festival-special-mini-episode/

How might we get from today's narrow AIs to AGI? This episode focus is tools.

Is all AI-involved science fiction the same?

We talked about the Nexus Trilogy of novels as a way to further our thinking about the wizard hat idea Tim Urban wrote about in his article about Elon Musk's Neuralink.

Are we living our lives as if AI were an existential threat?

Listener Feedback this episode

Tim Urban's article at Wait But Why: Elon Musk's Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future

Mostly a listener feedback episode. Lots of great stuff here!

We need better language to talk about these difficult technical topics. See https://concerning.ai/2017/03/31/0039-we-need-more-sparrow-fables/ for notes.

See https://concerning.ai/2017/03/17/0038-we-dont-want-to-die/

Listener Voicemail & Comments Eric’s voicemail Evan’s comment (Our interview with Evan: ep 0011: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 1), ep 0012: Evan Prodromou, AI practitioner (part 2) John’s comment Ted got the author’s name wrong Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (25:12) Moving on from Feedback into what’s going to get us from here to there Instantaneous Judgement (Stimulus-Response) Reinforcement […]

Main topic of this show: Unexpected Consequences of Self Driving Cars by Rodney Brooks

What should our values be? Could "Life is Precious" replace the Consumption Story?

Do we need to do philosophy on a deadline? Can AI help make us better humans?

Wind up your propeller hats! This one is a doozy. Hopefully someone can explain it to me (Ted).

In which we talk about Westworld, among other things.

Too time constrained for show notes this time. If you want to send us notes to be added here, please do it! Best place to reach is is the Concerning AI group on Facebook. All of the listener feedback in this episode comes from that group. Thank you all! Subscribe in Overcast, iTunes, or through […]

It's been a while since we recorded. What have we been up to?

We recorded this episode on Nov 6, 2016, two days before the US election. Sorry it’s taken so long to get out. Also, no show notes due to need to simply get it published and avoid further delay. Enjoy! http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0029-2016-11-06.mp3

Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence Fiction from Liu Cixin: The Three Body Problem The Dark Forest Death’s End We’re a lot more beautiful if we try. (5:41) The Upward Spiral (9:45) Are we getting any wiser? (12:43) What are we trying for? To continue an aesthetic lineage. (13:55) Kurzweil. When the machines tell us they are human, […]

Korey’s comment: … one question you asked on ‘The Locality Principle’, was what other people are doing to avert a possible AIpocalypse; I’m starting a company! An entertainment venture with one driving purpose: to create a fully realized virtual world, one with as many complex and varied entities as the real world itself. … Links for […]

http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0026-2016-09-18.mp3 These notes won’t be much use without listening to the episode, but if you do listen, one or two of you might find one or two of them helpful. Lyle Cantor‘s comment (excerpt) in the Concerning AI Facebook group: Regarding the OpenAI strategy of making sure we have more than one superhuman AI, this is […]

Some things we talked about: Companies developing narrow AI, not giving one thought about AI safety, because just getting the thing to work at all is really hard. Self-driving cars and how fast they’re progressing Difference between Open AI and MIRI in approach Weaponized offense and defense Eliezer’s thought about that missing the point http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0025-2016-09-04.mp3

No notes this time, just a speculative conversation about some possible implications of the idea that we could be living in a simulation. Subscribe in Overcast, iTunes, or though our feed. To get in touch with us, visit the Concerning AI Facebook group. http://traffic.libsyn.com/friendlyai/ConcerningAI-episode-0024-2016-07-17.mp3 Post-Human Series by David Simpson

Are people better than robots?

This episode, we talk about this paper: A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning

We want robot surgeons, bus and taxi drivers and investment advisors. Do you?

Fiction is fun. And, we can't rely on it to help us figure out what's going to happen.