This is a link post.I found this interview notable as the most useful public statement yet of Yudkowsky's views. I congratulate both him and the host, Dan Fagella, for strategically improving how they're communicating their ideas.
The host, Dan Fagella is to be commended for asking the right questions and taking the right tone to get an extraordinarily concise statement of Yudkowsky's views on what we might do to survive and why. It also seemed likely that Yudkowsky has thought hard about his messaging after having his views both deliberately and accidentally misunderstood and panned. Despite having followed his thinking over the last 20 years, I gained new perspective on his current thinking from this interview.
Takeaways:
Humans will probably fail to align the first takeover-capable AGI and all die
Not because alignment is impossible
But because humans are empirically foolish
And historically rarely get hard [...]
First published:
January 24th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bSHCZ6dbAdfMbvuXB/yudkowsky-on-the-trajectory-podcast)
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