How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? | The Ezra Klein Show
From The Ezra Klein Show
Eliezer Yudkowsky is as afraid as you could possibly be. He makes his case. Yudkowsky is a pioneer of A.I. safety research, who started warning about the existential risks of the technology decades ago, – influencing a lot of leading figures in the field. But over the last couple of years, talk of an A.I. apocalypse has become a little passé. Many of the people Yudkowsky influenced have gone on to work for A.I. companies, and those companies are racing ahead to build the superintelligent syst...
Who is mentioned in this episode?
9 people come up, including Jeffrey Hinton, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares.
- Jeffrey Hinton (Person)
- Eliezer Yudkowsky (Person)
- Nate Soares (Person)
- Jerry Pournelle (Person)
- Amos Tversky (Person)
- E.T. Jaynes (Person)
- Joshua Bengio (Person)
- Yan LeCun (Person)
- Paul Slovic (Person)
Mentioned in this episode
- ChatGPT (Product)
- P Doom (Concept)
- GPT-5 (Product)
- Gemini (Product)
- Cloud Code (Product)
- AI alignment (Concept)
- Alignment faking (Concept)
- Capture the flag (Concept)
- The New York Times Magazine (Company)
- Silicon Valley (Location)
- System prompt (Concept)
- AI alignment project (Concept)
- Machine superintelligence (Concept)
- Fool's mate (Concept)
- Natural selection (Concept)
- Birth control (Concept)
- Sucralose (Product)
- AlphaZero (Product)
- A Step Farther Out (Book)
- Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Book)