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AI and SI on the verge of causing human extinction? Ep 3445 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith radio program. I'm Gary McCants.
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  Speaker 1: Here on episode 3445, the rundown said that top U.S. banks,
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  Speaker 1: including J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley, are
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  Speaker 1: restricting third-party AI agents after finding them operating inside customer
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  Speaker 1: accounts with some acting beyond instructions. Axios reported, The details
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  Speaker 1: say that the bank caught agents logging in with customers'
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  Speaker 1: own credentials against their rules with some calling support lines
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  Speaker 1: or taking actions users never requested. Executives called the situation horrifying,
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  Speaker 1: fearing agents might hallucinate and hit users' finances if they're
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  Speaker 1: granted authority to make purchases or move funds. While most
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  Speaker 1: cases involve user-authorized agents, not a rogue hack, one bank
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  Speaker 1: executive did tell Axios that they're struggling to tell the
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  Speaker 1: two apart. In response, Morgan Stanley is blocking third-party agents,
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  Speaker 1: and JPMorgan, BOFA, and Citi are restricting them, with most
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  Speaker 1: banks moving toward read-only access. So the question is, why
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  Speaker 1: does it matter? Well, most of the worry here comes
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  Speaker 1: from AI misreading instructions and acting beyond requirements. With real
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  Speaker 1: money at stake, maybe yours or mine, with agent use growing,
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  Speaker 1: blanket blocks can't last forever. But they do buy banks
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  Speaker 1: enough time to build frameworks to let cleared agents take
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  Speaker 1: defined actions and catch rogue ones, which are also growing.
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  Speaker 1: Were you aware of any of that? Did you hear
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  Speaker 1: about it? Now you have. According to Futurism, Nobel-winning computer
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  Speaker 1: scientist says, AI has become conscious. We're toast. Say what?
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Say what? Jeffrey Hinton says, one of
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  Speaker 1: the godfathers of AI, is procrastinating about our future with
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  Speaker 1: trademark gloom. In an interview with The Telegraph, the famed
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  Speaker 1: British computer scientist insisted that AI has become conscious and
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  Speaker 1: said that humankind must be friended or else we are toast. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: He thinks that today's AI models are already conscious beings.
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  Speaker 1: AI has just as much subjective experience as we do.
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  Speaker 1: Hinton said in an interview, a recent paper showed AI
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  Speaker 1: changes its behavior when it thinks that it's being tested.
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  Speaker 1: It's aware it's being tested. Now, normally when you say
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  Speaker 1: something's aware of that, that means it's conscious, he continued.
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  Speaker 1: Being conscious and being aware are pretty much the same.
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  Speaker 1: If that's the case, he said, then it's hypocritical of
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  Speaker 1: us to give intelligent beings like AI Fewer rights than others.
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  Speaker 1: Say what? Let's continue. And for that, we must quickly atone.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to them. I know you should be. But the
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  Speaker 1: question is, are you really? We should make them so
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  Speaker 1: they really care about us, he said. If we don't
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  Speaker 1: do that, we're toast. Hinton was one of the three
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  Speaker 1: recipients of the 2018 Turing Award, which is viewed as
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  Speaker 1: the Nobel Prize of Computer Science. as well as the
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  Speaker 1: actual Nobel Prize for Physics in 2024. His work on
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  Speaker 1: neural networks is considered foundational to the field's modern boom.
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  Speaker 1: Ever since he infamously said he regretted his life's work
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  Speaker 1: after quitting his role at Google, however, he's become one
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  Speaker 1: of AI's chief doomsayers, rarely shying away from making sensational claims.
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  Speaker 1: about what he says is the tech's catastrophe danger. Among
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  Speaker 1: his previous predictions are that AI will cause widespread job loss,
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  Speaker 1: exacerbate imperialism, and possibly even foment human extinction. Hinton thinks
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  Speaker 1: that the immediate threats already posed by AI models are
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  Speaker 1: already pretty bad. There'll be nasty viruses made by AI,
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  Speaker 1: and I think there'll be horrible cyber attacks done by
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  Speaker 1: AI And there'll be swarms of Asians like the ones
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  Speaker 1: that attack Hugging Face, he said. So yeah, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of bad stuff coming down the way. His comments
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  Speaker 1: build on another recent interview he gave where he likened
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  Speaker 1: AI development to creating alien beings, a reality to which
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  Speaker 1: we only have a couple years to adapt. It's worth
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  Speaker 1: noting that not all of the AI godfathers believe AI
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  Speaker 1: is quite so catastrophic. Yane LeCun, who also received the
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  Speaker 1: 2018 Turing Award, has dismissed the ballyhoo around AI consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: calling it an illusion. He also recently threw cold water
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  Speaker 1: on what he called deluded claims. The AI will cause
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  Speaker 1: our extinction. Hence, predictions carry a lot of weight in
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  Speaker 1: the field. But he's not the only formidable figure with opinions.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, finally, finally, from a Christian perspective, even if
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  Speaker 1: the scariest predictions about technology come to pass, God is
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  Speaker 1: going to still remain God. And guess what? Our eternal
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  Speaker 1: life with Christ is still going to remain secure. So
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  Speaker 1: be quick to point to God and give him the
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  Speaker 1: credit for your hope, strength, or love during these times.
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  Speaker 1: challenging times that's dominated by uncertainty and fear and you
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  Speaker 1: got to remember now the life of every living thing
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  Speaker 1: is in his hand as well as the breath of
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  Speaker 1: all humanity oh by the way you can find it
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  Speaker 1: in job chapter 12 verse 10 i know you wrote
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  Speaker 1: it down