An Insider's Guide to AI Doom
The conversation around AI harms has become incredibly heated in recent weeks. But it's also incredibly confusing. In this short explainer episode, Cal walks through the three major categories of beliefs around AI in the current moment and helps explain who belongs where and how they all relate to each other. If you're trying to keep up with AI news you have need to learn this framework.
Chapters:
(0:00) Intro
(1:01) Why the debate is so heated
(2:01) Group 1: The Doomers (rationalists and effective altruists)
(9:12) Anthropic, OpenAI, and the doomer civil war
(14:03) Group 2: The…
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