AGI is not going to wipe us out #shorts

6 May 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip (Charles Cormier) in which a single speaker argues that AGI is unlikely to instantly wipe out humanity in one ‘clap.’ The speaker acknowledges risks from abuse of the technology and rapid/exponential development but emphasizes practical limits and judges the existential-risk probability as relatively low, referencing having followed a related book.

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I don't think it's gonna wipe out like, humanity one shot. I do think that some people are gonna. Abuse of the technology. The argument that it is a fundamentally different technology and that it can end life in one. One clap. I don't think that is sensible. There's been a lot of people arguing against it lately. Yeah, I'm all about the. The speed and the exponentiality of it, but there's. There's almost. There's also limits to that. So I do think that. Yeah, like you said, humanity, it puts the carriage in front of the horses kind of. That's how we learn. Right. Like as children, we fall on our ass. We get up and we keep on. We hit a wall. Oh, okay, this is hard. This hurts, you know, and if that's the nature of technology, that it will progress so fast that it will wipe us out, well, I do think there's a probability of that, but I think it's way smaller, as per the book in itself. And I've been following the.