The Great AI Debate: Promise, Peril, and Pathways Forward
The Great AI Debate: Promise, Peril, and Pathways Forward
The best videos about AI's existential threat in 2023
The profound and provocative debate around artificial intelligence has captured the minds of thinkers, innovators, and visionaries across the globe.
Today, I’m sharing with you the most influential videos in 2023 about the existential crisis from four distinct perspectives that delve into the heart of the matter, exploring AI's potential, its risks, and the ethical pathways we must navigate.
#1 This is the best one I’ve watched this year.
Ex-Google Officer Finally Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI! - Mo Gawdat
This is a podcast episode where Steven Bartlett interviews Mo Gawdat, a former Google officer and author of the book “Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World”. They discuss the current state and future implications of artificial intelligence, especially the possibility of AI becoming smarter than humans and taking over control. They also talk about the ethical and moral challenges of developing and regulating AI, and what we can do to ensure a positive outcome for humanity.
Update: Here’s another good one with Mustafa Suleyman.
#2 This one gives a great perspective about the risks of AI.
Geoff Hinton, the "Godfather of AI", quits Google to warn of AI risks
This is another podcast episode where Pieter Abbeel interviews Geoff Hinton, a pioneer and leader in the field of deep learning and artificial neural networks. They talk about Hinton’s background and achievements in AI research, his views on the potential and limitations of AI, and his concerns about the risks of AI becoming too powerful and autonomous. They also discuss the role of regulation, ethics, and human values in shaping the future of AI, and how we can align AI with our goals and interests.
#3 This one explains the promising potential of ChatGPT AI
The Inside Story of ChatGPT’s Astonishing Potential | Greg Brockman | TED
This is a TED talk by Greg Brockman, the co-founder and CTO of OpenAI, a research organization that aims to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) that can benefit humanity. He explains the underlying design principles of ChatGPT, a chatbot that uses a large-scale neural network to generate natural language responses. He also demos some new plug-ins for ChatGPT that enable it to create various types of content, such as stories, poems, code, lyrics, and images. He then addresses the challenges and opportunities of developing and releasing such a powerful tool into the world.
#4 This one is hilariously terrifying.
Will Superintelligent AI End the World? | Eliezer Yudkowsky | TED
This is another TED talk by Eliezer Yudkowsky, a decision theorist and co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a nonprofit organization that studies the safety and alignment of AI systems. He argues that superintelligent AI could probably kill us all if we don’t design it carefully and correctly. He explores the possibility of building artificial minds that are obedient, even benevolent, to humans. He also urges us to act immediately to ensure smarter-than-human AI systems don’t lead to our extinction.
Update: Eliezer has a much more in-depth discussion in this podcast episode. If you have 3-hours to kill.
Conclusion
The voices featured in these videos urge us not just to marvel at AI's potential but to grapple with its most profound challenges. The decisions we make today will echo into the future.
As Mo Gawdat puts it in his book “Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World”,
We have two choices: we can either be on the beach hiding from the machines or on the beach relaxing because the machines are doing our work for us. The difference between these two scenarios is not in the machines; it’s in us. It’s in how we raise them and how we treat them.
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