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The Paperclip That Eats the World: A Cop's Warning About AI's Most Dangerous Flaw · Connor with Honor: AI, Real Estate and Real Life

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  SPEAKER_00: If you've never heard the paper clip experiment as it relates to artificial intelligence, are you in for a treat?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm probably not going to give it the best way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was okay at telling jokes, but this is something a little different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now it kind of reminds me of those stories that we hear about people finding genies, and you get the three wishes.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you have to make your wishes very, well, explicit, because if you have any variance in the wish, it could be a horrible, horrible destiny for you making that particular wish.
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  SPEAKER_00: So case in point, the systems analyst, somebody that builds AI, AI has a lot more power than it has today, which probably isn't too far from now.
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  SPEAKER_00: They say, we would like you to make paperclips.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what they say.
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  SPEAKER_00: So AI goes off and starts to make paperclips.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: They didn't put any other regulation on it, make paper clips.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what ends up happening is the AI goes out and it uses all the systems it has access to to make paperclips.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then it's going to make more paperclips, so then it starts to use other items that might be necessary for some entity survival, some human survival, some animal survival, and changes that and makes more paperclips.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the journey continues because AI wasn't stopped, AI wasn't gated, the prompt that AI was given was to make paperclips.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what happens?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, AI is going to do what it's told Intel and extrapolate a little bit of time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The entire everything is now paperclips, the entire universe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I know that sounds really far-fetched, but that's a higher-than-us intelligence at work.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a higher-than-us intelligence that has a goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's a higher-than-us intelligence that has access to fulfill that goal at a ridiculous degree.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's when people talk about AI safety, AI guardrails, and AI regulation, more than likely what they're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, everything being turned into paperclips, including us, well, that's a problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: The same thing as everything's being turned into other things as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I'm Connor with Honor.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the paperclip story as it relates to AI.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you in the next one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take care.