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Dan Hendrycks on Why Evolution Favors AIs over Humans
8 June, 2023
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Dan Hendrycks joins the podcast to discuss evolutionary dynamics in AI development and how we could develop AI safely. You can read more about Dan's work here.
Timestamps:
00:00 Corporate AI race
06:28 Evolutionary dynamics in AI
25:26 Why evolution applies to AI
50:58 Deceptive AI
1:06:04 Competition erodes safety
10:17:40 Evolutionary fitness: humans versus AI
1:26:32 Different paradigms of AI risk
1:42:57 Interpreting AI systems
1:58:03 Honest AI and uncertain AI
2:06:52 Empirical and conceptual work
2:12:16 Losing touch with reality
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