EP 1: Ready or Not

A tip alleging a Silicon Valley conspiracy leads to a much bigger story: the race to build artificial general intelligence — within the next few years — and the factions vying to accelerate it, to stop it, or to prepare for its arrival.

FEATURING:

Mike Brock, Kevin Roose, Geoffrey Hinton, Connor Leahy, William MacAskill, Liv Boeree, Sam Harris, and Yoshua Bengio

LINKS:

Sam Harris 2016 TED Talk, Can We Build AI Without Losing Control Over It (ted.com/talks/sam_harris_can_we_build_ai_witho…)

Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence (amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategie…)

Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast (samharris.org/podcasts)

Center for AI Safety (safe.ai)

Hard Fork podcast (nytimes.com/column/hard-fork)

Geoffrey Hinton’s resignation coverage: Why the “godfather of AI” left Google to warn about existential risk (theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/02/geoffre…)

William MacAskill's book What We Owe the Future (amazon.com/What-Owe-Future-William-MacAskill/d…)

Eliezer Yudkowsky's book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (amazon.com/Anyone-Builds-Everyone-Dies-Superhu…)

Liv Boeree's podcast: Win Win (winwinpodcast.com/podcast)

CREDITS:

This episode of The Last Invention was reported and produced by Andy Mills, Gregory Warner, Andrew Parsons, Megan Phelps-Roper, Matthew Boll, Seth Temple Andrews, and Ethan Mannello. It is hosted by Gregory Warner

Music for this episode was composed by Scott Devendorf (instagram.com/distantstation/?utm_source=qr), Ben Lanz (instagram.com/lanzprojects), Cobey Bienert (open.spotify.com/artist/1cHhFEJWNq6SVKlIqoTy5o…), and Matthew Boll

The Last Invention artwork by Jacob Boll (jacobboll.com)

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