Inside the episode
Connor Leahy is the CEO of Conjecture, a mission-driven organization that’s trying to make the future of AI go as well as it possibly can. He is also a Co-Founder of EleutherAI, an open-source AI research non-profit lab.
In today’s episode, Connor and David cover:
1) The intuitive arguments behind the AI Safety debate
2) The two defining categories of ways AI could end all of humanity
3) The major players in the race towards AGI, and why they all seem to be ideologically motivated, rather than financially motivated
4) Why the progress of AI power is based on TWO exponential curves
5) Why Connor thinks government regulation is the easiest and most effective way of buying us time
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
3:12 AI Alignment Importance
9:40 Finding Neutrality
14:16 AI Doom Scenarios
21:06 How AI Misalignment Evolves
25:56 The State of AI Alignment
32:07 The AI Race Trap
41:49 Motivations of the AI Race
56:18 AI Regulation Efforts
1:14:28 How AI Regulation & Crypto Compare
1:21:44 AI Teachings of Human Coordination
1:36:53 Closing & Disclaimers
RESOURCES
Connor Leahy
https://twitter.com/NPCollapse
Conjecture Research
https://www.conjecture.dev/research/
EleutherAI Discord
https://discord.com/invite/zBGx3azzUn
Stop AGI
https://www.stop.ai/
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