82. Jakob Foerster - The high cost of automated weapons
Automated weapons mean fewer casualties, faster reaction times, and more precise strikes. They’re a clear win for any country that deploys them. You can see the appeal. But they’re also a classic pris...
5 Maj 202154min
81. Nicolas Miailhe - AI risk is a global problem
In December 1938, a frustrated nuclear physicist named Leo Szilard wrote a letter to the British Admiralty telling them that he had given up on his greatest invention — the nuclear chain reaction. "Th...
28 Apr 202156min
80. Yan Li - The Surprising Challenges of Global AI Philanthropy
We’ve recorded quite a few podcasts recently about the problems AI does and may create, now and in the future. We’ve talked about AI safety, alignment, bias and fairness. These are important topics, a...
21 Apr 202145min
79. Ryan Carey - What does your AI want?
AI safety researchers are increasingly focused on understanding what AI systems want. That may sound like an odd thing to care about: after all, aren’t we just programming AIs to want certain things b...
14 Apr 202157min
78. Melanie Mitchell - Existential risk from AI: A skeptical perspective
As AI systems have become more powerful, an increasing number of people have been raising the alarm about its potential long-term risks. As we’ve covered on the podcast before, many now argue that tho...
7 Apr 202144min
77. Josh Fairfield - AI advances, but can the law keep up?
Powered by Moore’s law, and a cluster of related trends, technology has been improving at an exponential pace across many sectors. AI capabilities in particular have been growing at a dizzying pace, a...
31 Mars 202157min
76. Stuart Armstrong - AI: Humanity's Endgame?
Paradoxically, it may be easier to predict the far future of humanity than to predict our near future. The next fad, the next Netflix special, the next President — all are nearly impossible to anticip...
24 Mars 20211h 11min
75. Georg Northoff - Consciousness and AI
For the past decade, progress in AI has mostly been driven by deep learning — a field of research that draws inspiration directly from the structure and function of the human brain. By drawing an anal...
17 Mars 202159min
