AI expert Tristan Harris: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! [View all]
Wikipedia on Tristan Harris - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris - and the Center for Humane Technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Humane_Technology
Most of you have probably seen the news about Bernie Sanders' warning about AI.
Harris worked at Google, has maintained contact with Silicon Valley, and knows just how scary the reasoning of the people controlling the AI companies is. They're very aware of the existential risk to humanity from more intelligent AI, as well as all the harm the AI we have now is doing, but they believe they have no choice but to race ahead despite the risks to everyone on the planet. And Harris is being told that a number of them think they'll reach that very dangerous level of AI within 2 years, and almost certainly within a decade.
Please watch at least some of the 140-minute podcast below. If you can't watch all of it, I recommend watching at least from 13 to 46 minutes in, for these sections
15:50 Are We Close to Getting AGI?
17:12 The Incentives Driving Us Toward a Future We Don't Want
19:58 The People Controlling AI Companies Are Dangerous
23:18 How AI Workers Make AI More Efficient
24:24 The Motivations Behind the AI Moguls
29:21 Elon Warned Us for a Decade — Now He's Part of the Race
34:39 Are You Optimistic About Our Future?
37:58 Sam Altman's Incentives
38:46 AI Will Do Anything for Its Own Survival
46:18 How China Is Approaching AI
except for the one starting at 46:18.
Those 33 minutes will give you a better understanding of why the people controlling the AI companies - and the tech they're racing to create - are dangerous.
I hope Bernie Sanders will help make sure this AI expert's warning gets more attention.
EDITING to add: My thanks to speak easy for sending me this video.
EDITING again to add Bernie's statement on AI, in case you haven't seen it:
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