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In October, over 850 experts, including yourself and other leaders like Richard Branson and Jeffrey Hinton, signed a
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statement to ban AI super intelligence as you guys raised concerns of potential human extinction.
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Because unless we figure out how do we guarantee that the AI systems are safe, we're toast.
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And you talk about this gorilla problem as a way to understand AI in the context
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of humans. Yeah. So, a few million years ago, the human line branched off from the gorilla
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line in evolution. And now the gorillas have no say in whether they continue to exist because we are much smarter than
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they are. So intelligence is actually the single most important factor to control planet
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earth. Yep. But we're in the process of making something more intelligent than us.
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Exactly. Why don't people stop then? Well, one of the reasons is something called the Midas touch. So King Midas is
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this legendary king who asked the gods, can everything I touch turn to gold? And
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we think of the Midas touch as being a good thing, but he goes to drink some water and the water has turned to gold.
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And he goes to comfort his daughter, his daughter turns to gold. So he dies in misery and starvation. So this applies
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to our current situation in two ways. One is that greed is driving these companies to pursue technology with the
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probabilities of extinction being worse than playing Russian roulette. And that's even according to the people
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developing the technology without our permission. And people are just fooling themselves if they think it's naturally
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going to be controllable. So if you had a button in front of you which would stop all progress in
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artificial intelligence, would you press it? Not yet. I think there's still a decent
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chance they guarantee safety, which I can explain.