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Lex Fridman PodcastMax Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- April 13, 2023
- Duration
- 2h 48m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS: Max's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tegmark Max's Website: https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark Pause Giant AI Experiments (open letter): https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments Future of Life Institute: https://futureoflife.org Books and resources mentioned:
- Life 3.0 (book): https://amzn.to/3UB9rXB
- Meditations on Moloch (essay): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch
- Nuclear winter paper: https://nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0
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Max Tegmark
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Max Tegmark and Lex Fridman, Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371 explores Max Tegmark Urges Six‑Month Pause to Avert AI Suicide Race Max Tegmark argues that advances like GPT‑4 show AGI and superintelligence may be very near, and that humanity is in a “suicide race” where commercial and geopolitical pressures (Moloch) push labs to deploy ever‑more powerful systems faster than we can make them safe.
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