Two speakers debate whether AI poses genuine risks or reflects historical tech anxiety. One warns that the real danger isn't AI itself but who controls it, pointing to an accelerating race to dominate the technology. The other compares potential AI risks to aircraft design failures.
That's the real fear. Some people, like this guy who's advocating for a digital god, like, they do know where it's going because they actually work in technology and it's not freaking them out. But it's like Columbus, you know, like everybody thought the world was flat. He got a couple of people to get on a boat and fly, and we didn't know what that was going to mean. See if we can find where Elon talks about this part because that was the most fascinating.
Yeah, so I've been thinking about AI for a long time, since I was in college really. It's one of the things that, the sort of 4 or 5 things I thought would really affect the future dramatically. It is fundamentally profound. And can you just roughly explain what you think the dangers might be? More dangerous than, say, mismanaged, uh, aircraft design or production maintenance.
How wild is that? It is wild. But these are the people that are in control of this thing. And I think there's also this race that's going on.