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Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover
Dwarkesh Podcast

Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover

Dwarkesh Patel 2h 30m 21 months ago
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Chatted with Joe Carlsmith about whether we can trust power/techno-capital, how to not end up like Stalin in our urge to control the future, gentleness towards the artificial Other, and much more.
Check out Joe's sequence on Otherness and Control in the Age of AGI here.
Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes.
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Timestamps:
() - Understanding the Basic Alignment Story
() - Monkeys Inventing Humans
() - Nietzsche, C.S. Lewis, and AI
() - How should we treat AIs
() - Balancing Being a Humanist and a Scholar
() - Explore exploit tradeoffs and AI
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