Making Sense with Sam Harris28 Aug 2023

#332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?

Sam Harris speaks with Mustafa Suleyman about his new book, "The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma." They discuss the progress in artificial intelligence made at his company DeepMind, the acquisition of DeepMind by Google, Atari DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold, the invention of new knowledge, the risks of our making progress in AI, "superintelligence" as a distraction from more pressing problems, the inevitable spread of general-purpose technology, the nature of intelligence, productivity growth and labor disruptions, "the containment problem," the importance of scale, Moore's law, Inflection AI, open-source LLMs, changing the norms of work and leisure, the redistribution of value, introducing friction into the deployment of AI, regulatory capture, a misinformation apocalypse, digital watermarks, asymmetric threats, conflict and cooperation with China, supply-chain monopolies, and other topics.

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