Will AI superintelligence kill us all? (with Nate Soares)

For all episodes and a YouTube-ad-free listening experience, visit our website: https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/e... Are the existential risks posed by superhuman AI fundamentally different from prior technological threats such as nuclear weapons or pandemics? How do the inherent “alien drives” that emerge from AI training processes complicate our ability to control or align these systems? Can we truly predict the behavior of entities that are “grown” rather than “crafted,” and what does this mean for accountability? To what extent does the analogy between human evolutionary drives and AI training objectives illuminate potential failure modes? How should we conceptualize the difference between superficial helpfulness and deeply embedded, unintended AI motivations? What lessons can we draw from AI hallucinations and deceptive behaviors about the limits of current alignment techniques? How do we assess the danger that AI systems might actively seek to preserve and propagate themselves against human intervention? Is the “death sentence” scenario a realistic prediction or a worst-case thought experiment? How much uncertainty should we tolerate when the stakes involve potential human extinction? Nate Soares is the President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the co-author of the book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. He has been working in the field for over a decade, after previous experience at Microsoft and Google. Soares is the author of a large body of technical and semi-technical writing on AI alignment, including foundational work on value learning, decision theory, and power-seeking incentives in smarter-than-human AIs. --- Get access to every episode before it's up on YouTube by subscribing for free on: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7d26NkK... Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... --- Get in touch in the comments below or head to: Instagram:   / clearer_thinking   Twitter:   / clearerthinkng   LinkedIn:   / clearer-thinking   Email: ClearerThinkingPodcast@gmail.com Music: Lee Rosevere - https://archive.org/details/MusicForP... Josh Woodward - https://www.joshwoodward.com/song/Alr... Broke for Free - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Br... Zapsplat.com- https://www.zapsplat.com/music/summer... Wowamusic- https://gamesounds.xyz/?dir=wowamusic Quiet Music for Tiny Robots- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Qu...