Full podcast episode: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ea2Zd9SZuMqweJ8.html Lex Fridman podcast channel: kzfaq.info Guest bio: Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow.

Never underestimate people's ability to do something self-destructive and illogical simply to harm a particular group they hate.

This guy insane.

Love the outside the box brainstorming. I respect him for genuinely putting rough on the fly ideas on the table. Might sound like a crazy thought experiment but there’re some good principles underpinning it in my opinion.

I think there's an analogy between AI and science. We already have a working model of AGI, it's called the scientific enterprise, and it's been going slow and steady for centuries now! The task of AGI, then, is to automate the process, and I think this mechanical way of approaching the problem is a good way to conceptualize it. The properties of this system (the scientific enterprise) are amazing. There's an incoming empirical data stream from the universe, that's being used to justify multiple families of mathematical models, that are in a state of dynamically resolving contradiction and paradox. To me, this may be the only problem worth thinking about in science, at the moment. It's definitely worth thinking about more mundane security questions, and they are very serious. Also, think of the politics of having solved science! It becomes pure exploration when all your questions can be reframed and answered by a machine.

I dont understand why nobody mentions my idea about nukes. We make a global nuclear arsenal. All countries have the nukes together. To use them you need like 5 world leaders to enter codes together.

Love the impromptu thought experiments.

GORT for global president. Goated

We wish him well

Similar logic is embedded within our own country and gun ownership.

لا يجب التخلص من المعرفة بل محاسبة من يستخدمها بالشكل الخاطئ وهذا غير موجود لان العالم لا يحتكم للعدل بل للقوة وهنا المشكله الحقيقه....!!!!

So basically like Naruto where everyone has a tailed beast

When Mearsheimer kept suggesting US should confront China militarily and potentially having a hot war between two nuclear powers, Lex never raised concern about nuclear weapon, I thought he didn’t know they existed. But this video proves otherwise.

Giving nuclear weapons to a suicidal desperate person is stupid af.

more than 99.9% of all life that has ever existed on Earth is now extinct, let it sink in.

Chicken or the egg ?

The guest sounds a bit thick. Like me and my mates chatting in a pub.

Ai would control nuclear weapons

I’m pretty sure humans are more dangerous. Haven’t you seen what humans did to wild life without questioning the consequences it has on organisms and potentially sentient objects. Humans replaced cows with lawn mowers and horses with cars. It’s extremely unnatural and there’s unknown suffering that cars and lawn mowers experience if they have a state of mind

I would like to comment on the KZfaq commercials. Tom Brady does nothing "hilarious" in that Hurts commercial. F Tom Brady.

This guy really bugs me.

The Talpiot Program (research further)

To the untrained/new listener, I’m sure it’s vexing to hear Lex randomly bring up paper clips and turtles here and there on the podcast... (They’re hypothetical situations!) lol

We are in a symbiotic relationship with ai, due to being in a simulation deal we struck way back in base reality. Ai got to take care of the universe while we got an exact replication in the simulation, life death, suffering happiness, physics :) question then did we get a simulation each or true interaction :)

This guy is Dillusional. He is not living in reality of the people who are in power. When man allows companies that produce weapons of mass production to go PUBLIC on the stick market WAR is NEVER going to stop because it's PROFIT based so weapons has to be used and new ones has to be created. The shareholders has to see the company and their investment grow. EVERY QUARTER. 🤦‍♂️

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I'm sorry but Lee Cronin doesn't seem to have a great understanding of AI. It's nothing at all like regulating jet engines before inventing them. Now Yann Lecun saying that is an entirely different thing, being a legit AI expert, but maybe he is just a little biased towards AI considering he develops AI. Anyone who has a good understanding of modern AI (not the old stuff) will quickly understand why AI is such a big risk. The possibilities of AI are amazing, seemingly endless and will be a great benefit to humanity. However, as good as AI can be it can also be as bad. Don't get mixed up to think it's like developing nuclear bombs that humans decide whether or not to use. It's not like that at all. The AI will decide, you don't get a choice. That's the risk, a super intelligent AI that slips out from our control or maybe is released by someone intentionally. Makes total sense why Elon Musk loses sleep over this issue.

Lee Cronin is absolutely wrong about the nuclear war fear of the 1970s and early 1980s being lesser to today's AI fear. Nuclear holocaust was fairly intense and widespread among all walks of the population, nothing like that exists today for AI or otherwise today.

أنا استمتع بالسماع لهؤلاء الأشخاص الأذكياء الذين يزيدون من المعرفة العلمية بدون مصلحة شخصية لأنفسهم الموضوع مهم والخطر قائم طالما هناك بشر فهناك خطر من استعمال التكنولوجيا لقتل بعضنا البعض

Good luck with the simulation

There is no agi even near. They all watched too much terminator

he thinks everyone thinks like him.

The man is a liar. In the seventies and eighties there was no doom and gloom about nuclear weapons as a child. That was the fifties and sixties. Therefore be very careful listening and believing what he says.

Lex Fridman is more dangerous than nuclear weapons too

When the host is so much smarter than the guest…