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Why is everone alarmed at AI? Ep 3411 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith radio program. I'm Gary McKeon.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining. Here on episode 3411, there's a question,
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  Speaker 1: a good question. Why the AI panic? You know that's
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  Speaker 1: a good question for you. And you and you and you,
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  Speaker 1: all concerned, should be dependent. The poor overlaid it out
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  Speaker 1: nicely for Christians. Why is everyone panicking about AI? Go
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  Speaker 1: back to about a week ago, employees at AI companies
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  Speaker 1: began publicly calling on industry leaders to pump the brakes
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  Speaker 1: on AI development. The concern? Progress has become so rapid
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  Speaker 1: that AI might outrun humans' ability to control it, and
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  Speaker 1: it could start doing dystopian movie wipeout, humanity-level bad stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The anthropic CEO laid it out when they put out
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  Speaker 1: a three-step plan.
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  Speaker 2: But how can AI outrun humans?
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  Speaker 1: The concept worrying company executives and researchers is called recursive self-improvement, RSI.
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  Speaker 1: That's the stage where AI models can begin designing and
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  Speaker 1: developing their own successors.
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  Speaker 2: Say what?
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  Speaker 1: How does recursive self-improvement work? It's basically a feedback loop.
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  Speaker 1: RSI is when an artificial intelligence model studies its own performance,
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  Speaker 1: figures out what upgrades would help build them, and then
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  Speaker 1: uses the improved version to upgrade itself again, theoretically getting
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  Speaker 1: faster and more accurate every time.
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  Speaker 2: So why is this concerning? Well, there are two big worries.
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  Speaker 1: If AI can start improving itself, the rate of progress
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  Speaker 1: become exponential.
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  Speaker 2: So a project that would take humans years, for.
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  Speaker 1: Example, using AI to build a bioweapon could arrive far sooner.
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  Speaker 2: And if humans lose the ability to steer.
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  Speaker 1: AI, we might not be able to stop it from
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  Speaker 1: doing something catastrophically.
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  Speaker 2: Or catastrophic. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is this even possible?
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  Speaker 1: Well, some industry leaders think so, others aren't so sure.
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  Speaker 1: A July study found that AI was really good at
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  Speaker 1: engineering but not so good at the judgment creativity and
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  Speaker 1: open-ended thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm, isn't that interesting?
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  Speaker 1: Giving an AI agent a huge several-day task and they'll
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  Speaker 1: get lost in the sauce because it lacks the necessary
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  Speaker 1: problem-solving skills. They said if they don't know yet, even
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  Speaker 1: Anthropic points out that a self-improving AI still can't turn
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  Speaker 1: a stranger into an old friend in a weekend. Some
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  Speaker 1: things move at a human speed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, heaven said all that. One thing we do know,
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  Speaker 1: God is in control. We're not talking about the too
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  Speaker 1: late God that people are putting their trust in or
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  Speaker 1: some idol. But in the words of Tony Renneke, Every
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  Speaker 1: motivated scientist and every human innovation and every welder of
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  Speaker 1: those innovations all operate in subservience to God's love for
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  Speaker 1: his people. God is unfolding his plan which is the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate good and the final vindication of a blood-bought people
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  Speaker 1: paid in full by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that. You sure you're thinking about it? You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a scripture. It says, look, I have created the
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  Speaker 1: craftsman who blows on the charcoal fire and produces a
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  Speaker 1: weapon suitable for his task. And I have created the
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  Speaker 1: destroyer to cause havoc. No weapon formed against you will succeed,
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  Speaker 1: and you will refute any accusation raised against you in court.
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  Speaker 1: This is the heritage of the Lord's servants, and their
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  Speaker 1: vindication is from me. You can find that in Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: chapter 54, verses 16 through 17.
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  Speaker 2: CSB. I know you're turning.