#371 Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development

Published: April 13, 2023, 4:26 p.m.

Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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\nPause Giant AI Experiments (open letter): https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments
\nFuture of Life Institute: https://futureoflife.org
\nBooks and resources mentioned:
\n1. Life 3.0 (book): https://amzn.to/3UB9rXB
\n2. Meditations on Moloch (essay): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch
\n3. Nuclear winter paper: https://nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0
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\nOUTLINE:
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\n(00:00) - Introduction
\n(07:34) - Intelligent alien civilizations
\n(19:58) - Life 3.0 and superintelligent AI
\n(31:25) - Open letter to pause Giant AI Experiments
\n(56:32) - Maintaining control
\n(1:25:22) - Regulation
\n(1:36:12) - Job automation
\n(1:45:27) - Elon Musk
\n(2:07:09) - Open source
\n(2:13:39) - How AI may kill all humans
\n(2:24:10) - Consciousness
\n(2:33:32) - Nuclear winter
\n(2:44:00) - Questions for AGI