THE RACE TO CREATE THE SUPER-INTELLIGENT BEAST THAT TAKES OVER MANKIND WITH NATE SOARES

Are human beings machines? Complicated machines with a soul? Complex, moral, ethical, spiritual machines capable of building language and teaching it to soulless bots that will eventually surpass and usurp us into oblivion? And what about intent? Oh that road to hell is surely paved with those “good intentions” alright. That “good” stuff that seems to put the most vulnerable in harm’s way. Have we ultimately written the code for our own extinction? “Humanity is the sort of species that started out naked….” In this mind bending “rise of the machines” ULTRAFREE episode, Drea speaks with Nate Soares, co-author of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.” In a Doomsday Mommy Exploration of what this “AI Beast” will do to us and our children’s futures, Drea does what only she is able to do so effortlessly and naturally — Take an incredibly intricate, technologically scientific topic and break it down to its core with an expert who has witnessed the dangers and sounded the alarm. Nate Soares is the President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and plays a central role in setting MIRI’s vision and strategy. Soares has been working in the field for over a decade, and is the author of a large body of technical and semi-technical writing on AI alignment, including foundational work on value learning, decision theory, and power-seeking incentives in smarter-than-human AIs. Prior to MIRI, Soares worked as an engineer at Google and Microsoft, as a research associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and as a contractor for the US Department of Defense. A scary & spellbinding discussion that traverses multiple topics about our uncertain futures with technology as friend or foe, and how to navigate and engage with the glut of information that is coming at us a million miles an hour on the internet. Nate Soares highlights the benefits and pitfalls while Drea maintains the importance of protecting our future generations from becoming slaves to an “intelligence” that intends to make us less human and ultimately Ultra-Not-Free. “We could choose a better course than AI,” Nate tell Drea. AI (Artificial Intelligence), as usual, is a financially lucrative endeavor for less than 1% of the population, and a VERY Bad Idea for the rest of humanity. Organic Intelligence & Creativity are where ULTRAFREE places faith, deeds and energy. Buy Nates book here: https://a.co/d/7qRmhhF (https://a.co/d/7qRmhhF) Follow Nate on X: https://x.com/So8res?s=20 (https://x.com/So8res?s=20) About MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute): https://intelligence.org/about/ (https://intelligence.org/about/) ======================================================== BUY ULTRAFREE MERCH HERE: https://ultrafree.co/ (https://ultrafree.co/) Ultrafree Podcast Credits: Host - Drea De Matteo Intro Music & Graphics - Robby Staebler Camera & Editor - Eric Sarich Writer & Producer - Emily Duff Publicity - Vanessa Santos, Renegade PR ( https://redrenegadepr.com/ (https://redrenegadepr.com/) Social Media - Samantha Kyprios, Renegade PR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices