Safe Transition Talks

Alex van der Meer

This podcast series is about our future with Artificial Intelligence, with most of the focus on A.G.I. or Artificial general intelligence. In this podcast series, I will create solo episodes to take you from 0 knowledge of AI to understanding the subject, and I will be talking to experts to mainly try to answer the question; What can we do now that will bring down the probability of a bad outcome with AI? Or, how to increase our chance of a Safe Transition to the machine intelligence era! If you want to help take action or share ideas, reach out to me! Contact info in episode description.

Episodes

  1. #1 - Thomas Hickey: AGI Takeoff, Existential Risk, Regulation Ideas

    01/17/2023

    #1 - Thomas Hickey: AGI Takeoff, Existential Risk, Regulation Ideas

    (See timestamps below) Thomas Hickey is a Dutch student in both philosophy and artificial intelligence at Utrecht University. We talk about his bachelor thesis on A.G.I. or Artificial General Intelligence, on bottlenecks for recursive self-improvement. But also go into existential risk and what we can do about it. CONTACT INFO: Alex van der Meer email: safetransitionREMOVETHIS@gmail.com but remove capital letters, (for spam) SEE MORE OF ME: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexvanderMeer5 - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@safetransition9743 EPISODE LINKS: Eliezer Yudkowsky, on why it is lethal not to have retries https://intelligence.org/2022/06/10/agi-ruin/ OpenAI on their approach to alignment blog post https://openai.com/blog/our-approach-to-alignment-research/ TIMESTAMPS: On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (03:16) - Recursive self-improvement, how long until superintelligence (10:50) - What can be learned in the digital realm (14:21) - How fast can it learn in the real world (18:34) - Can AGI become better than us? (22:54) - Complex enough environment to create superintelligence? (29:10) - Can AGI Thomas take over the world? (37:40) - Is superintelligence irrelevant for safety? (41:38) - Existential risk from AI? (48:09) - How to decrease the chance of a bad outcome? (49:08) - Regulations (53:19) - ChatGPT and the best current models (59:57) - Solution to the treacherous turn?   (1:05:01) - AGI becomes religious? (1:11:03) - Starting point of the intelligence explosion? (1:16:49) - OpenAI Alignment approach blog post (1:18:29) - Is Open source bad for safety? (1:24:49) - How to contact me

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This podcast series is about our future with Artificial Intelligence, with most of the focus on A.G.I. or Artificial general intelligence. In this podcast series, I will create solo episodes to take you from 0 knowledge of AI to understanding the subject, and I will be talking to experts to mainly try to answer the question; What can we do now that will bring down the probability of a bad outcome with AI? Or, how to increase our chance of a Safe Transition to the machine intelligence era! If you want to help take action or share ideas, reach out to me! Contact info in episode description.

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  • Creator
    Alex van der Meer
  • Episodes
    1
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    © Alex van der Meer
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    Safe Transition Talks