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Earthquakes As Existential Risks?

Could an earthquake become an existential or catastrophic risk that puts all of humanity at risk? Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Ariel Conn of the Future of Life Institute...

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Concrete Problems In AI Safety With Dario Amodei And Seth Baum

Interview with Dario Amodei of OpenAI and Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute about studying short-term vs. long-term risks of AI, plus lots of discussion about Amodei’s recent paper,...

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Robin Hanson On The Age Of Em

Dr. Robin Hanson talks about the Age of Em, the future and evolution of humanity, and his research for his next book. The post Robin Hanson On The Age Of Em appeared first on Future of Life Institute.

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Nuclear Winter With Alan Robock and Brian Toon

I recently sat down with Meteorologist Alan Robock from Rutgers University and physicist Brian Toon from the University of Colorado to discuss what is potentially the most devastating consequence of...

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Heather Roff and Peter Asaro on Autonomous Weapons

Drs. Heather Roff and Peter Asaro, two experts in autonomous weapons, talk about their work to understand and define the role of autonomous weapons, the problems with autonomous weapons, and why the...

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AI Breakthroughs With Ian Goodfellow And Richard Mallah

2016 saw some significant AI developments. To talk about the AI progress of the last year, we turned to Richard Mallah and Ian Goodfellow. Richard is the director of AI projects at FLI, he’s the Senior...

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UN Nuclear Weapons Ban With Beatrice Fihn And Susi Snyder

Last October, the United Nations passed a historic resolution to begin negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Previous nuclear treaties have included the Test Ban Treaty, and the...

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Law and Ethics of AI with Ryan Jenkins and Matt Scherer

The rise of artificial intelligence presents not only technical challenges, but important legal and ethical challenges for society, especially regarding machines like autonomous weapons and...

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Climate Change With Brian Toon And Kevin Trenberth

I recently visited the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO and met with climate scientists Dr. Kevin Trenberth and CU Boulder’s Dr. Brian Toon to have a different climate...

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Creative AI With Mark Riedl & Scientists Support A Nuclear Ban

This is a special two-part podcast. First, Mark and Ariel discuss how AIs can use stories and creativity to understand and exhibit culture and ethics, while also gaining “common sense reasoning.” They...

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Banning Nuclear & Autonomous Weapons With Richard Moyes And Miriam Struyk

How does a weapon go from one of the most feared to being banned? And what happens once the weapon is finally banned? To discuss these questions, Ariel spoke with Miriam Struyk and Richard Moyes on the...

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The Art Of Predicting With Anthony Aguirre And Andrew Critch

How well can we predict the future? In this podcast, Ariel speaks with Anthony Aguirre and Andrew Critch about the art of predicting the future, what constitutes a good prediction, and how we can...

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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Max Tegmark

Elon Musk has called it a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future of life on Earth and beyond, while Stephen Hawking and Ray Kurzweil have referred to it as an...

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80,000 Hours with Rob Wiblin and Brenton Mayer

If you want to improve the world as much as possible, what should you do with your career? Should you become a doctor, an engineer or a politician? Should you try to end global poverty, climate change,...

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AI Ethics, the Trolley Problem, and a Twitter Ghost Story with Joshua Greene...

As technically challenging as it may be to develop safe and beneficial AI, this challenge also raises some thorny questions regarding ethics and morality, which are just as important to address before...

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Balancing the Risks of Future Technologies With Andrew Maynard and Jack Stilgoe

What does it means for technology to “get it right,” and why do tech companies ignore long-term risks in their research? How can we balance near-term and long-term AI risks? And as tech companies...

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Beneficial AI And Existential Hope In 2018

For most of us, 2017 has been a roller coaster, from increased nuclear threats to incredible advancements in AI to crazy news cycles. But while it’s easy to be discouraged by various news stories, we...

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Top AI Breakthroughs and Challenges of 2017

AlphaZero, progress in meta-learning, the role of AI in fake news, the difficulty of developing fair machine learning — 2017 was another year of big breakthroughs and big challenges for AI researchers!...

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AI, Ethics And The Value Alignment Problem With Meia Chita-Tegmark And Lucas...

What does it mean to create beneficial artificial intelligence? How can we expect to align AIs with human values if humans can’t even agree on what we value? Building safe and beneficial AI involves...

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Navigating AI Safety — From Malicious Use to Accidents

Is the malicious use of artificial intelligence inevitable? If the history of technological progress has taught us anything, it’s that every “beneficial” technological breakthrough can be used to cause...

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