Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371

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: twitter.com/tegmark
Max's Website: space.mit.edu/home/tegmark
Pause Giant AI Experiments (open letter): futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experi…
Future of Life Institute: futureoflife.org/
Books and resources mentioned:
1. Life 3.0 (book): amzn.to/3UB9rXB
2. Meditations on Moloch (essay): slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloc…
3. Nuclear winter paper: nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:56 - Intelligent alien civilizations
14:20 - Life 3.0 and superintelligent AI
25:47 - Open letter to pause Giant AI Experiments
50:54 - Maintaining control
1:19:44 - Regulation
1:30:34 - Job automation
1:39:48 - Elon Musk
2:01:31 - Open source
2:08:01 - How AI may kill all humans
2:18:32 - Consciousness
2:27:54 - Nuclear winter
2:38:21 - Questions for AGI

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