EMERGENCY PODCAST: ASI Will Kill Us All!
Connor Leahy joins Tom Bilyeu to argue that artificial superintelligence poses an extinction-level risk and should be criminalized through international agreements similar to nuclear weapons treaties.
The gist
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AI systems are grown through neural networks into billions of unreadable parameters, making them fundamentally impossible to control once they exceed human capabilities.
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Leahy says criminalize ASI creation and regulate precursor capabilities like self-replication and task autonomy, affecting only a tiny share of frontier tech companies.
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Leahy argues the alignment problem is unsolved across technical, philosophical, and governance dimensions, and the foundational science is 60 or more years away.
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Deterrence requires the US and China to agree that superintelligence serves neither nation, framing it as independently assured destruction rather than mutually assured destruction.
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"If you take Minecraft, the greatest video game ever invented — agreed — when you start up a new world, there's a joy to the world, but if you lose it, there's sort of a temporar..."
"There's a Wikipedia article called the AI effect. I recommend looking up the Wikipedia article. It's quite fun."
"Go to controlai.org, contact your lawmaker, tell them you're concerned about these issues, help educate people, keep having the conversation."
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2 picks · guest
"There's a Wikipedia article called the AI effect. I recommend looking up the Wikipedia article. It's quite fun."
"Go to controlai.org, contact your lawmaker, tell them you're concerned about these issues, help educate people, keep having the conversation."
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"If you take Minecraft, the greatest video game ever invented — agreed — when you start up a new world, there's a joy to the world, but if you lose it, there's sort of a temporar..."
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