AI and Existential Risk - Overview and Discussion
AI and Existential Risk - Overview and Discussion  
Podcast: Last Week in AI
Published On: Wed Aug 30 2023
Description: A special non-news episode in which Andrey and Jeremie discussion AI X-Risk! Please let us know if you'd like use to record more of this sort of thing by emailing contact@lastweekin.ai or commenting whether you listen. Outline: (00:00) Intro (03:55) Topic overview (10:22) Definitions of terms (35:25) AI X-Risk scenarios (41:00) Pathways to Extinction (52:48) Relevant assumptions (58:45) Our positions on AI X-Risk (01:08:10) General Debate (01:31:25) Positive/Negative transfer (01:37:40) X-Risk within 5 years  (01:46:50) Can we control an AGI (01:55:22) AI Safety Aesthetics (02:00:53) Recap (02:02:20) Outer vs inner alignment (02:06:45) AI safety and policy today (02:15:35) Outro Links Taxonomy of Pathways to Dangerous AI Clarifying AI X-risk Existential Risks and Global Governance Issues Around AI and Robotics Current and Near-Term AI as a Potential Existential Risk Factor AI x-risk, approximately ordered by embarrassment Classification of Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Artificial Intelligence X-Risk Analysis for AI Research The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective