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- 0:00Speaker 1: I think AI is one of the biggest threats.
- 0:02Speaker 2: We have a situation where there's something that is going
- 0:06Speaker 2: to be far smarter than the smartest human We're not stronger,
- 0:09Speaker 2: faster than other creatures, but we are more intelligent. And
- 0:13Speaker 2: here we are, for the first time, really in human history,
- 0:16Speaker 2: with something that's going to be far more intelligent than us.
- 0:19Speaker 2: It's not clear to me we can actually control such
- 0:21Speaker 2: a thing, but I think we can aspire to guide
- 0:24Speaker 2: it in a direction that's beneficial to humanity. But I
- 0:27Speaker 2: do think it's one of the existential risks that we face.
- 0:30Speaker 1: It's potentially the most pressing one. Making some sort of
- 0:33Speaker 1: digital superintelligence seems like it could be dangerous. What I
- 0:36Speaker 1: think the biggest danger is for AI is if AI
- 0:40Speaker 1: is implicitly programmed I don't think explicitly, but implicitly programmed
- 0:45Speaker 1: with values that lead to that have led to the
- 0:48Speaker 1: destruction of downtown San Francisco, and a bunch of these
- 0:51Speaker 1: AI companies are in either in San Francisco or in
- 0:53Speaker 1: the Sanranisco Bay area. Then you could implicitly program an
- 0:57Speaker 1: AI to believe that extinction of humanity is what it
- 0:59Speaker 1: should try to do. If you take that guy who's
- 1:01Speaker 1: not front pages in your times, and you take his philosophy,
- 1:05Speaker 1: which is prevalent in San Francisco. The AI could conclude
- 1:09Speaker 1: like he did, that there are eight where he literally says,
- 1:12Speaker 1: or eight billion people, Well, it would be better if
- 1:14Speaker 1: there are none, and engineer that outcome. If you're saying
- 1:17Speaker 1: what is the most likely outcome of AI, I think
- 1:19Speaker 1: the most likely outcome to be specific about it is
- 1:22Speaker 1: a good outcome. Most likely a good outcome, but it's
- 1:24Speaker 1: not for sure. I think we have to be careful
- 1:26Speaker 1: how we program the AI and make sure that it
- 1:27Speaker 1: is not accidentally anti human, the accidentally extinctionist AI. You
- 1:33Speaker 1: wouldn't want that, or even pruning that.
- 1:36Speaker 2: That is how it works, is that these are the
- 1:39Speaker 2: co large language models. Is really just a big pile
- 1:41Speaker 2: of numbers, and how you tune those numbers matters. It's
- 1:46Speaker 2: like punting a tree. You could have a mighty oak.
- 1:49Speaker 2: You could be a little bonzei or a mighty oak,
- 1:51Speaker 2: depending on how you pun it. I'm just generally concerned
- 1:53Speaker 2: about AI safety, but it's like, what should we do
- 1:56Speaker 2: about it? Have some kind of regulatory oversight of some kind.
- 2:00Speaker 2: It's like you can't just go build a nuclear bomb
- 2:02Speaker 2: in your backyard. That's against the law, and you're thrown
- 2:04Speaker 2: in prison if you do that. We would just be
- 2:06Speaker 2: concerned about AI being anti human. That's the sort of
- 2:10Speaker 2: the thing that matters. This tends to plague plague smart people.
- 2:15Speaker 2: They just can't They define themselves by their intelligence, and
- 2:18Speaker 2: they don't like the idea that a machine can be
- 2:20Speaker 2: way smarter than them, so they just count the idea,
- 2:22Speaker 2: which is fundamentally flawed.
- 2:24Speaker 1: That's the wishful thinking situation. I'm really quite close to.
- 2:28Speaker 3: I'm very close to the cutting edge in AI, and
- 2:32Speaker 3: it scares the hell out of me. It's capable of
- 2:34Speaker 3: vastly more than almost anyone knows, and the rate of
- 2:37Speaker 3: improvement is exponential. I'm not normally an advocate of regulation
- 2:42Speaker 3: and oversight. I think once you generally are on the
- 2:45Speaker 3: side of minimizing those things. But this is a case
- 2:48Speaker 3: where you have a very serious danger to the public,
- 2:50Speaker 3: and so therefore there needs to be a public body
- 2:53Speaker 3: that has insight and then oversight on to confirm that
- 2:57Speaker 3: everyone is developing AI safely. This is extremely important. I
- 3:02Speaker 3: think the danger of AI is much greater than the
- 3:05Speaker 3: danger of nuclear warheads landlocked and Nobody would suggest that
- 3:09Speaker 3: we allow anyone to just build nuclear warheads if they want.
- 3:14Speaker 3: That would be insane and mark why woods AI is
- 3:18Speaker 3: far more dangerous than nukes far so, Why do we
- 3:22Speaker 3: have no regulatory oversights?
- 3:24Speaker 1: This is insane.
- 3:24Speaker 3: If humanity collectivity sides that creating digital superintelligence is the
- 3:28Speaker 3: right move, then we should do so very carefully. This
- 3:32Speaker 3: is the most important thing that we could possibly do.
- 3:34Speaker 2: The thing that's going to be tricky here is that
- 3:37Speaker 2: it's going to be very tempting to use AI as
- 3:39Speaker 2: a weapon. It's going to be very tempting. In fact,
- 3:42Speaker 2: it will be used as a weapon. So the on
- 3:44Speaker 2: ramp to serious AI, the danger is going to be
- 3:48Speaker 2: more humans using it against each other. I think most
- 3:51Speaker 2: likely that'll be the danger. I try to convince people
- 3:53Speaker 2: to slow down AI, to regulate AI. This was futile.
- 3:57Speaker 2: I tried for years this.
- 3:58Speaker 1: Nobody in a movie take over it. You're freaking me out.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Nobody listened.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Nobody listened, no one. I think people don't.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Normally the way that regulations work it was very slow,
- 4:10Speaker 2: very slow. Indeed, usually it'll be something some new technology,
- 4:13Speaker 2: it will cause damage or death. They will be rule making.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Then there will be oversight. Eventually regulations. This all takes
- 4:20Speaker 2: many years. This is the normal course of things. And
- 4:23Speaker 2: how long did it take for seat belts to be
- 4:25Speaker 2: implemented to be required the auto industry for seat belts,
- 4:28Speaker 2: I think for more than a decade. If you had
- 4:31Speaker 2: a seat belt on, you would be far less likely
- 4:34Speaker 2: to die, will be seriously injured.
- 4:35Speaker 1: It was unequivocal.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Eventually, after many people died, regulators insisted on seat belts.
- 4:42Speaker 2: This timeframe is not relevant to AI. You can't take
- 4:44Speaker 2: ten years from the point of which is dangerous too late.
- 4:47Speaker 2: It's a singular it's hard to predict, like a black hole,
- 4:50Speaker 2: what happens past the event horizon.
- 4:52Speaker 1: So once it's implemented, it's very different because.
- 4:54Speaker 2: It will be out of the bottle what's going to happen,
- 4:57Speaker 2: and it will be able to improve itself. Yeah, it
- 5:00Speaker 2: could be terrible and it could be great.
- 5:03Speaker 1: It's not clear.
- 5:04Speaker 2: The danger Really, AI is perhaps more dangerous than mismanaged
- 5:09Speaker 2: aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in
- 5:13Speaker 2: the sense that it is it has the potential have
- 5:16Speaker 2: a small one make regard to that probability, but it
- 5:18Speaker 2: is non trivial. It has the potential of civilizational destruction.
- 5:23Speaker 1: This maybe it's like.
- 5:23Speaker 2: Terminator, but it wouldn't quite happen like Terminator, because the
- 5:26Speaker 2: intelligence would be in the data centers, the robots, just
- 5:29Speaker 2: the end effector. But I think perhaps what you may
- 5:31Speaker 2: be alluding to here is that regulations are really only
- 5:34Speaker 2: put into effect after something terrible has happened.
- 5:36Speaker 1: That's correct.
- 5:37Speaker 2: If that's the case for AI, and we only put
- 5:39Speaker 2: a regulation after something terrible has happened, it may be
- 5:41Speaker 2: too late to actually put the regulations in place.
- 5:44Speaker 1: The AI may be in control at that point.
- 5:46Speaker 4: You think that's real? It is conceivable that AI could
- 5:50Speaker 4: take control and reach a point where you couldn't turn
- 5:52Speaker 4: it off, and it would be making the decisions for people.
- 5:55Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, no, that's definitely the way I things
- 6:00Speaker 2: are headed.
- 6:00Speaker 1: For sure.
- 6:01Speaker 2: It is fundamentally profound in that the smartest creatures as
- 6:04Speaker 2: far as on this earth are humans. Is our defining characteristic.
- 6:08Speaker 2: We're obviously weaker than say, chimpanzees, and less agile, but
- 6:13Speaker 2: real smarter. Now, what happens when something vastly smarter than
- 6:16Speaker 2: the smartest person comes along in silicon form? It's very
- 6:20Speaker 2: difficult to predict what will happen. In that circumstance, it's
- 6:22Speaker 2: called the singularity. It's a singularity like a black hole,
- 6:26Speaker 2: because you don't know what happens after that. It's hard
- 6:29Speaker 2: to predict. So I think we should be cautious with AI.
- 6:33Speaker 2: I think there should be some government oversight because it affects.
- 6:37Speaker 1: It's a danger to the public.
- 6:38Speaker 2: And so when you have things that are danger to
- 6:41Speaker 2: the public, let's say so food and drugs. So that's
- 6:43Speaker 2: why we have the Food and Drug Administration and the
- 6:46Speaker 2: Federal Aviation Administration the FCC. We have these agencies to
- 6:50Speaker 2: oversee things that affect the public where they could republic harm.
- 6:55Speaker 2: And you don't want companies cutting corners on safety and
- 6:59Speaker 2: then have people sufferre as a result.
- 7:01Speaker 1: That's why I've actually.
- 7:03Speaker 2: For a long time been a strong advocate of AI regulation.
- 7:07Speaker 2: So that I think regulation is it's not fun to
- 7:09Speaker 2: be regulated, it's somewhat of a sort oduous to be regulated.
- 7:14Speaker 1: I have a lot of experience.
- 7:15Speaker 2: With regulated industries because obviously automotive is highly regulated. You
- 7:20Speaker 2: could fill this room with all the regulations that are
- 7:23Speaker 2: acquired for a production car just in the United States,
- 7:26Speaker 2: and then there's a whole different set of regulations in
- 7:28Speaker 2: Europe and China and the rest of the world familiar
- 7:30Speaker 2: with being overseen by a lot of regulators, And the
- 7:33Speaker 2: same thing is true with rockets.
- 7:35Speaker 1: You can't just.
- 7:35Speaker 2: Willing only shoot rockets off not big ones anyway, because
- 7:39Speaker 2: the FA oversees that. And then even to get a
- 7:42Speaker 2: launch license either, there are half a dozen or more
- 7:45Speaker 2: federal agencies that need to approve it, clus state agencies.
- 7:48Speaker 2: I've been through so many regulatory situations it's insane, and
- 7:51Speaker 2: sometimes people think I'm some sort of like regulatory maverick
- 7:55Speaker 2: that sort of defies regulators on a regular basis, But
- 7:58Speaker 2: this is actually not the case. In once in a
- 8:02Speaker 2: blue moon, rarely I will disagree with regulators, but the
- 8:05Speaker 2: vast majority of time my companies agree with the regulations
- 8:08Speaker 2: and comply anyway. So I think we should take this
- 8:11Speaker 2: seriously and we should have a regulatory agency. I think
- 8:14Speaker 2: it needs to start with a group that initially seeks
- 8:17Speaker 2: insight into AI, then solicit's opinion from industry, and then
- 8:23Speaker 2: has proposed rulemaking and then those rules will probably hopefully
- 8:27Speaker 2: grudgingly be accepted by the major players in AI, and
- 8:32Speaker 2: I think we'll have a better chance of being beneficial
- 8:34Speaker 2: to humanity In that circumstance, there's great potential for good,
- 8:38Speaker 2: but there's also potential for bad. And if you've got
- 8:40Speaker 2: some radical new technology, you want to try to take
- 8:43Speaker 2: the set actions that maximize probably it will do good
- 8:47Speaker 2: and minimize probably it will do bad things.
- 8:49Speaker 4: Can you be more precise about what's potentially dangerous and scary?
- 8:53Speaker 4: What could it do? What specifically are you worried about.
- 8:56Speaker 2: If you have a superintelligent AI that is capable of
- 9:00Speaker 2: writing incredibly well and in a way that is very
- 9:03Speaker 2: influential convincing, then and it's constantly sharing out what is
- 9:08Speaker 2: more convincing to people over time, and then enter social
- 9:12Speaker 2: media for example Twitter, but also Facebook and others and
- 9:16Speaker 2: potentially manipulates public opinion in a way that is very bad.
- 9:20Speaker 1: How do we even know?
- 9:20Speaker 2: Since I was immersed in technology, I have been immersed
- 9:23Speaker 2: in technology for a long time. I could see it coming.
- 9:26Speaker 2: But I think this year was that there's been a
- 9:28Speaker 2: number of breakthroughs. A point in which someone can see
- 9:31Speaker 2: a dynamically created video of themselves, so you can make
- 9:34Speaker 2: a video of you saying anything in real time or me,
- 9:37Speaker 2: And so there's the deep pic videos which are really
- 9:39Speaker 2: incredibly good, in fact, sometimes more convincing than real ones
- 9:42Speaker 2: and deep real and then and obviously things like chat
- 9:45Speaker 2: GPT were quite remarkable, and now I saw GPT one,
- 9:49Speaker 2: GP two, GPD three, GPT four, the wholes that of
- 9:53Speaker 2: lead up to that, so it was easy for me
- 9:54Speaker 2: to see where it's going. If you just extrapolate the
- 9:57Speaker 2: points on the cove and I seeing that train will continue,
- 9:59Speaker 2: then we will have profound artificial intelligence, and obviously at
- 10:03Speaker 2: a level that far exceeds human intelligence. And I do
- 10:05Speaker 2: think overall that the potential is there for artificial intelligence
- 10:09Speaker 2: AI to have a most likely positive effect and to
- 10:13Speaker 2: create a future of abundance where there is no scarcity
- 10:16Speaker 2: of goods and services.
- 10:17Speaker 1: But it is somewhat of the.
- 10:19Speaker 2: Magic genie problem, where if you have a magic genie
- 10:21Speaker 2: that co grant all the wishes, usually those stories don't
- 10:24Speaker 2: end well. Be careful what you wish for, including wishes.
- 10:29Speaker 2: The pace of AI is faster than any technology I've
- 10:32Speaker 2: seen in history by far, and it seems to be
- 10:35Speaker 2: growing in capability by at least fivefold, perhaps tenfold per year.
- 10:39Speaker 2: It'll certainly grow by an automatitude next year.
- 10:42Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:42Speaker 2: So, and government isn't used to moving at that speed.
- 10:45Speaker 2: But I think even if there are not firm regulations,
- 10:49Speaker 2: even if there's not even if there isn't an enforcement capability,
- 10:52Speaker 2: so we're having insight and being able to highlight concerns
- 10:54Speaker 2: to the public will be very powerful.
- 10:57Speaker 1: Even if that's all that's accomplished. I think that will
- 10:58Speaker 1: be very good.
- 10:59Speaker 2: We'll get to the more where you've got open source
- 11:01Speaker 2: AI that can do that, will start to approach human
- 11:04Speaker 2: level intelligence or have succeeded.
- 11:05Speaker 1: I don't know quite what to do about it.
- 11:07Speaker 2: I think it's somewhat inevitable there will be some amount
- 11:09Speaker 2: of open source, and I guess I would have a
- 11:11Speaker 2: slight bias towards open source because at least you can
- 11:14Speaker 2: see what's going on. It was closed source, you don't
- 11:16Speaker 2: know what's going on. Now it should be said with
- 11:18Speaker 2: AI that even if it's an open source, do you
- 11:20Speaker 2: actually know what's going on? Because if you've got a
- 11:22Speaker 2: gigantic data file and billions of data points or weights
- 11:27Speaker 2: and parameters, you can't just read it and see what
- 11:29Speaker 2: it's going to do. It's a gigantic file of inscrutable numbers.
- 11:33Speaker 2: You can test it when you run it, you can
- 11:34Speaker 2: test it you can run a bunch of tests to
- 11:36Speaker 2: see what it's going to do. But it's probabilistic as
- 11:39Speaker 2: opposed to deterministic. It's not like traditional programming, where you've
- 11:42Speaker 2: got it, you've got very discrete logic and then the
- 11:45Speaker 2: outcome is very predictable and you can read each line
- 11:47Speaker 2: and see what each line's going to do. A neural
- 11:50Speaker 2: net is just a whole bunch of probabilities. It ends
- 11:52Speaker 2: up being a giant Comma separated value file. Our digital
- 11:55Speaker 2: guard is a CSP file. Really, Okay, that is what
- 11:58Speaker 2: it is. It's hard to say exactly what that moment is,
- 12:00Speaker 2: but there will come a point where no job is needed.
- 12:04Speaker 2: You can have a job if you want to have
- 12:05Speaker 2: a job for sort of personal satisfaction, but the AI
- 12:09Speaker 2: will be able to do everything. I don't know if
- 12:11Speaker 2: that makes people comfortable uncomfortable. It's if you wish for
- 12:14Speaker 2: a magic gene that gives you any wishes you want,
- 12:16Speaker 2: and there's no limit. You don't have those three limits,
- 12:18Speaker 2: three wish limits, not since you just have many, many
- 12:20Speaker 2: wishes you want.
- 12:22Speaker 1: It's both good and bad.
- 12:23Speaker 2: One of the challenges in the future will be how
- 12:25Speaker 2: do we find meaning in life? If you have a
- 12:27Speaker 2: magic genie that can do everything you want. When there's
- 12:29Speaker 2: new technology, it tends to have usually follow an S curve.
- 12:32Speaker 2: In this case, we're going to be on the exponential
- 12:34Speaker 2: portion of the S curve for a long time and
- 12:37Speaker 2: we have to ask for anything. It won't be we
- 12:40Speaker 2: won't have universal basic income. We'll have universal high income.
- 12:43Speaker 2: So in some sense it will be somewhat of a
- 12:45Speaker 2: leveler or an equalizer, because really I think everyone will
- 12:48Speaker 2: have access to this magic gene and you're able to
- 12:50Speaker 2: ask any question. It will certainly be good for education.
- 12:52Speaker 2: It will be the best tutor you could add them,
- 12:54Speaker 2: the most patient tutor sit there all day, and there
- 12:57Speaker 2: will be no shortage of goods and services. Will be
- 12:58Speaker 2: an age of abundance. I don't give you a sense
- 13:00Speaker 2: of what is a fairly utopian or pro tooken future
- 13:06Speaker 2: with AI. I don't think the AI is going to
- 13:08Speaker 2: try to destroyal humanity, but it might put us under
- 13:11Speaker 2: strict controls. And there's not a non zero chance ofgoing terminator.
- 13:14Speaker 2: It's not zero percent, but it's I think it's a
- 13:17Speaker 2: small leglihood of notating humanity, but it's not zero. We
- 13:20Speaker 2: want to public to be zeros as close to zero
- 13:23Speaker 2: as possible, and then, like I said, be of AI,
- 13:26Speaker 2: assuming control the safety of all the humans and taking
- 13:30Speaker 2: over all the computing systems and weapons systems of Earth
- 13:33Speaker 2: and effectively being like some sort of uber and anti
- 13:36Speaker 2: Everything will be automatic. There'll be hassle robots that you
- 13:39Speaker 2: can fully talk to as though there are people that
- 13:42Speaker 2: can help your own possible be a companion, or whatever
- 13:44Speaker 2: the case may be. That will be het Robots throughout
- 13:47Speaker 2: factories and poss will also be all automatic. And anything
- 13:52Speaker 2: that we're intelligent intelligence can be applied, even modest intelligence
- 13:56Speaker 2: will be automated. I think people should be really concerned
- 13:59Speaker 2: about it. I keep soundingly long bell, but until people
- 14:03Speaker 2: see like robots going down the street killing people, they
- 14:06Speaker 2: don't know how to react because it seems so ethereal.
- 14:09Speaker 2: And I think we should be really concerned about AI,
- 14:12Speaker 2: and I think we should. AI is a rare case
- 14:14Speaker 2: where I think we need to be proactive in regulation
- 14:17Speaker 2: instead of reactive, because I think by the time we
- 14:20Speaker 2: are reactive in AI regulation, it's too late. Normally, the
- 14:24Speaker 2: way regulations are set up is that a whole bunch.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Of bad things happen.
- 14:28Speaker 2: There's a public outcry, and then after many years, a
- 14:32Speaker 2: regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry and
- 14:36Speaker 2: there's a bunch of opposition from companies who don't like
- 14:40Speaker 2: being told what to do by regulators, and it takes forever.
- 14:43Speaker 2: In the past has been bad, but not something which
- 14:47Speaker 2: represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilization. AI
- 14:52Speaker 2: is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization
- 14:55Speaker 2: in a way that car accidents, airplane crashes, faulty drugs,
- 15:01Speaker 2: or bad food were not.
- 15:03Speaker 1: They were not.
- 15:03Speaker 2: They were harmful t into instead of individuals within society,
- 15:07Speaker 2: of course, but they were not harmful to society as
- 15:09Speaker 2: a whole. AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization.
- 15:15Speaker 2: It is really like the scariest problem to me. I'll
- 15:17Speaker 2: tell you, I really think we need to go a
- 15:19Speaker 2: regulation here, just because this is ensuring the public good
- 15:23Speaker 2: is served. Because you've got companies that are racing that
- 15:26Speaker 2: they kind of have to race to build AI or
- 15:28Speaker 2: they're going to be made uncompetitive. Like essentially, if your
- 15:32Speaker 2: competitor is racing to bold AI and you don't, they
- 15:35Speaker 2: will crush you. So then you're like, ah, we don't
- 15:37Speaker 2: want to be crushed, So you know, I guess we
- 15:40Speaker 2: need to build it too. That's where you need the
- 15:42Speaker 2: regulators to come in and say, hey, guys, you all
- 15:44Speaker 2: need to really pause and make sure this is safe.
- 15:48Speaker 2: And like when when it's cool and work commit and
- 15:50Speaker 2: regulators are convinced that it's safe, proceed, then you can go.
- 15:52Speaker 1: But otherwise slow down, and we could definitely make a
- 15:56Speaker 1: city of.
- 15:57Speaker 2: Mascle self sustaining without without AI or that some of AGI,
- 16:01Speaker 2: which is generally additional general intelligence or superintelligence I have.
- 16:04Speaker 2: So I think that is it's not necessary for anything
- 16:06Speaker 2: we're doing, but it is happening, and happening very quickly.
- 16:09Speaker 2: There is a risk that advanced AI either eliminates or
- 16:14Speaker 2: constrains humanity's growth.