Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality

<p>For 4 hours, I tried to come up reasons for why AI might not kill us all, and Eliezer Yudkowsky explained why I was wrong.</p><p>We also discuss his call to halt AI, why LLMs make alignment harder, what it would take to save humanity, his millions of words of sci-fi, and much more.</p><p>If you want to get to the crux of the conversation, fast forward to 2:35:00 through 3:43:54. Here we go through and debate the main reasons I still think doom is unlikely.</p><p>Watch on <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/41SUp-TRVlg">YouTube</a>. Listen on <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eliezer-yudkowsky-why-ai-will-kill-us-aligning-llms/id1516093381?i=1000607719339">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LFWgn4KvoZMn4a89ZXUE3?si=mySWbwlWTr-NfkRzQbzA4w">Spotify</a>, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/">here</a>. Follow <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp">me on Twitter</a> for updates on future episodes.</p><p>As always, the most helpful thing you can do is just to share the podcast - send it to friends, group chats, Twitter, Reddit, forums, and wherever else men and women of fine taste congregate.</p><p>If you have the means and have enjoyed my podcast, I would appreciate your support via a paid <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/subscribe">subscriptions</a> on Substack.</p><p>Timestamps</p><p>(0:00:00) - TIME article</p><p>(0:09:06) - Are humans aligned?</p><p>(0:37:35) - Large language models</p><p>(1:07:15) - Can AIs help with alignment?</p><p>(1:30:17) - Society’s response to AI</p><p>(1:44:42) - Predictions (or lack thereof)</p><p>(1:56:55) - Being Eliezer</p><p>(2:13:06) - Othogonality</p><p>(2:35:00) - Could alignment be easier than we think?</p><p>(3:02:15) - What will AIs want?</p><p>(3:43:54) - Writing fiction & whether rationality helps you win</p><p><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p><strong>TIME article</strong></p><p><s