What podcasts say about Superintelligence
Every statement, with the speaker, the exact quote and the moment it was said.
What experts have said about Superintelligence
32 statements · 12 positive · 16 negative · 1 mixed · 3 neutral
Private labs, rather than governments, developed superintelligence.
“The state this time around did not solve superintelligence. It was solved by private labs.”
Open the episode · Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things Happening" and What It Means for AI Safety | MOONSHOTS #301Listen at 1:03:05
Superintelligence is a highly attractive business because it can automate the $30 trillion US economy.
“Superintelligence— not investment advice— is a wonderful business to be in because there's a $30 trillion American economy out there to be automated”
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Listen at 57:46
The emergence of superintelligence may be inevitable.
“it might be inevitable.”
Open the episode · JRE MMA Show #186 with Sean SharafListen at 2:14:48
Superintelligent systems may have a ten-percent chance of killing humanity.
“there's like a 10% possibility that they all say that it kills us all.”
Open the episode · JRE MMA Show #186 with Sean SharafListen at 2:15:21
Superintelligence will proliferate new forms of government
“I would predict the exact opposite is going to happen thanks to superintelligence, not an erosion of nation-states, but a proliferation of new forms of government.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 17:53
Superintelligence will provide cognitive capacity equivalent to trillions of humans
“We're going to live to the extent we don't already, in a world with the cognitive equivalent of many trillions of human beings.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 25:09
Superintelligence will eventually become indistinguishable from capital.
“superintelligence becomes, in the limit, indistinguishable from capital.”
Open the episode · Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Listen at 44:56
Slowing superintelligence development would be the worst outcome.
“I think the worst possible outcome is deceleration. So don't decel.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 9:16
Superintelligence will provide cognitive capacity equivalent to trillions of humans.
“We're going to live to the extent we don't already, in a world with the cognitive equivalent of many trillions of human beings.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 25:09
Building general superintelligence would make human extinction nearly certain.
“I basically think it's a guarantee. If we build general superintelligence, there is no way to control it. And that means the end for us.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 4:34
Building general superintelligence would guarantee human extinction because it cannot be controlled.
“I basically think it's a guarantee if we build general superintelligence, there is no way to control it, and that means the end for us.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 4:35
A sufficiently capable AI would likely defeat humanity in a conflict.
“it's much easier to predict that they would succeed against humanity in a conflict, that they would win, in a fight than it is to predict exactly how.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 10:09
Superintelligence means outperforming the best humans across all cognitive tasks.
“we define superintelligence as AIs that are better than the best human at every cognitive task, every mental task.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 11:12
Superintelligence would make humans a subordinate species.
“We will become secondary species on this planet. We will not be in charge.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 14:10
Humans cannot control, explain, or predict systems smarter than themselves.
“We cannot control something smarter than us. We cannot explain it. We cannot predict it.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 29:04
General superintelligence should be permanently banned while narrow AI continues.
“We need to figure out ways to permanently ban general superintelligence while getting all the benefits we want.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:00:04
Built general superintelligence cannot be controlled.
“If we build it, we cannot control it.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:31:14
Humanity should stop development toward dangerous superintelligence.
“I think we absolutely should stop it”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 2:06:23
People should stop building general superintelligence and quit labs pursuing it.
“don't build general superintelligence. If you're working at one of those labs, quit today.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 2:21:22
People should stop building general superintelligence and quit labs developing it.
“don't build general super intelligence. If you're working at one of those labs, quit today.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 2:23:23
People should not build general superintelligence.
“don't build general super intelligence”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 2:23:23
Humanity should avoid racing toward superintelligence because safe development is not understood.
“rising to this occasion is going to mean that nobody races towards superintelligence because we have no idea how to get that right.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 2:23:43
Superintelligence will not be humanity’s final invention
“I don't think superintelligence is at least human civilization's broadly construed last invention”
Open the episode · Ask the Mates anything | MOONSHOTS AMA #289Listen at 1:22:00
Superintelligence could produce severe disruption before any potential utopian outcome.
“there's no getting to that utopia without going through what, I don't want to use the word apocalypse but some really, really difficult times”
Open the episode · Hunter Biden, Matt McCusker & Duncan Trussell - Mostly Wise #2 - #1136Listen at 2:22:13
Superintelligence can be used to police other superintelligent systems.
“If we're going to be in a world awash with superintelligence, let's allocate some of the superintelligence to policing the other superintelligence.”
Open the episode · Dario vs Jensen on Open Weights, OpenAI & Anthropic in DC, Xi Exports AI to Global South | EP #275Listen at 19:20
Machine superintelligence could unlock biological, nanotechnological, and other advanced technologies.
“once you do have super intelligence in machine substrate like then that can then unlock all kinds of technologies, including these biological technologies or nanotechnology”
Open the episode · #2525 - Nick BostromListen at 54:17
Machine superintelligence could emerge within a few years.
“we're no longer at a point where we can be confident that we won't have super intelligence in just a few years. Like, it could happen.”
Open the episode · #2525 - Nick BostromListen at 1:20:44
Superintelligence has a 50% forecast probability of arriving by 2029.
“My sort of median estimate 50% chance is currently in 2029”
Open the episode · OpenAI Whistleblower FINALLY Speaks: “AI Has A 70% Chance Of Going Horribly Wrong!“Listen at 4:01
Superintelligent AIs could eventually accumulate enough power to no longer need humans.
“they will eventually have accumulated enough real world power that they don't need humans anymore”
Open the episode · OpenAI Whistleblower FINALLY Speaks: “AI Has A 70% Chance Of Going Horribly Wrong!“Listen at 5:31
Human-level physical superintelligence is possible and likely eventually.
“I don't think it's likely though. I think that there's nothing sort of magical about the human brain”
Open the episode · OpenAI Whistleblower FINALLY Speaks: “AI Has A 70% Chance Of Going Horribly Wrong!“Listen at 28:27
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