YUDKOSKY. If anyone anywhere builds a super intelligence, everyone everywhere dies. They’re unlikely to keep us alive in pods. We’re just not that useful from the perspective of something that is very, very much smarter than us. The only winner of an AI arms race is going to be the AI. If you build a super intelligence, you don’t have a super intelligence. The super intelligence has you. Nobody can build an artificial super intelligence or we are all dead.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, author of ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’ and so-called AI ‘prophet of doom’, speaks to Newsnight about the potentially existential dangers of artificial intelligence and its impact on the human race. Interview by Paddy O’Connell.
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