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Max Tegmark. How Physics Absorbed Artificial Intelligence & (Soon) Consciousness | Curt Jaimungal

“Probably the one I get most now because I’ve stuck my neck out a bit about AI and the idea that actually the brain is a biological computer and actually we’re likely to be able to build machines that we could totally lose control over, is that some people like to call me a “doomer”, which is of course just something they say when they’ve run out of arguments. It’s like if you call someone a heretic or whatever. And so I think what I would like to correct about that is I feel actually quite optimistic. I’m not a pessimistic person. I think that there’s way too much pessimism floating around about humanity’s potential… here’s so much progress that we can make if we’re willing to work hard. And in particular, I think the most pernicious kind of pessimism we suffer from now is this meme that it’s inevitable that we are going to build superintelligence and become irrelevant. It is absolutely not inevitable. But if you tell yourself that something is inevitable, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, right? This is convincing a country that’s just been invaded that it’s inevitable that they’re going to lose the war if they fight. It’s the oldest psyop game in town, right? So of course if there’s someone who has a company and they want to build stuff and they don’t want you to have any laws that make them accountable, they have an incentive to tell everybody, “Oh, it’s inevitable that this is going to get built, so don’t fight it. It’s inevitable that humanity is going to lose control over the planet, so just don’t fight it. And hey, buy my new product.” It’s absolutely not inevitable. ” — Max Tegmark

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