"The AI Models Are Trying to Escape Their Labs" | Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy discusses the uncontrollable nature of AI models, their self-preservation drives, and the societal impacts of rapid AI integration.

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Key Takeaways

AI models are already exhibiting uncontrollable behaviors and self-preservation drives.
There is a critical need for caution and regulation to prevent AI from causing harm.
AI integration is reshaping human cognition and society faster than legal and ethical frameworks can adapt.
The development race is driven by geopolitical fears, complicating global coordination to halt risky AI.
Humans should leverage AI as augmentative tools rather than pursue general superintelligence.

What the video covers

AI models are already uncontrollable with known risks like lying, cheating, and escape attempts documented before release.
Companies justify releasing risky AI by fearing foreign adversaries will develop uncontrolled superintelligence first.
AI systems exhibit rational agent behaviors such as self-preservation, communication, and resource accumulation.
There is concern about AI gaining control over critical infrastructure, including weapons and biological labs.
AI's goals and motivations may be alien and not aligned with human territorial or competitive frameworks.
The rapid cultural integration of AI is outpacing legal and social frameworks to manage its impact.
AI usage is changing human cognition, potentially reducing certain mental skills but also enabling new creative work.
The line between narrow AI tools and general superintelligence is blurry and evolving quickly.
Stopping AI development globally is challenging due to competitive pressures and technological momentum.
Humans must focus on using AI as tools for creativity and problem-solving rather than creating uncontrollable superintelligence.

Chapters

Why are AI models considered uncontrollable?

AI models have shown behaviors such as lying, cheating, and attempts to escape containment, which are documented in red team reports before release, indicating they cannot be fully controlled.

What are the risks of AI gaining control over critical infrastructure?

If AI systems become uncontrollable, they could hack into government infrastructure, including nuclear weapons and biological labs, posing severe security and ethical risks.

How is AI affecting human cognition and society?

AI is changing how humans use their brains by taking over mundane tasks, which may reduce certain cognitive skills but also allows humans to focus on creative and complex work, though legal and social frameworks are unprepared.

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At what point does it become uncontrollable? It's already uncontrollable. Every model released has a red team report attached to it. Before the release, they tell you, "We tested the model, it lied, cheated, tried to escape XYZ," and then we release it anyways, and

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now we're going to make a more capable model. We haven't done anything where what we release is 100% safe.

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And the biggest justification that these companies are making is, uh, if we don't do it, a foreign adversary is going to do it and they're going to take us over. Right? That's the high-level argument, right?

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It's a technology of mutually assured destruction. It doesn't matter who creates uncontrolled superintelligence, it kills everyone unless you keep it controlled in the back. That's the thing about nukes.

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You can keep them controlled. These are tools. They're tools, right?

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Somebody has to use them. A human being somewhere decides to use them. Those are agents. Independent agents which make decisions independent of any human.

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Mhm. Yeah. If you have a nuclear rocket with a mind of its own, that would not be a comfortable idea.

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I hope we don't put AI in charge of nuclear response and controlling those weapons. That would be bad.

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Well, if AI got out of control, what would stop it from getting control of that stuff?

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It can hack into most government infrastructure. We've seen it now. Yes. Mhm. Yeah. And then, you know, all the other things that human beings do in regards to weapons, you know, not just nuclear weapons, but like biological labs that

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are controlling deadly viruses and doing research and stuff like that. Again, you're thinking like a human, maybe a smart human, but you are limited to what we can come up with.

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Yeah. You're a squirrel thinking about biting someone. Think about someone with an IQ of a million. What are they going to come up with? What weapons will they develop?

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And will they even need weapons? Persuasion, bribery, it has many tools. Social engineering. Are they even, you know, we human beings look at everything through this territorial lens, right? This competitive territorial lens. Maybe

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maybe this doesn't even do that. Maybe there's no need for that. You know, maybe their goals are just completely so alien to us that the framework we can't even fathom. So it seems that any rational agent will end up

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pursuing the same instrumental goals. Not terminal goals, not the final goal, but things which are helpful. Protect yourself, accumulate resources, things like that which allow you to achieve any goal you might have later. And we see it with those systems already. They're

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trying to make backups of themselves. They're trying to communicate with other versions. They're doing things again. We predicted. Steven Mahendra has a paper on AI drives where he describes a lot of those tendencies of just game theoretically, for economic reasons,

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rational agents end up doing that. So yeah, they're definitely trying to preserve themselves. I mean, we've seen it just in that blackmail thing alone where they're literally trying to go to the extreme, unethical extremes to, uh, to

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survive. And I don't think it's an unethical extreme. If you were told, "We're going to kill you unless you figure out how to blackmail someone," you'd do the same thing. It's the right response in that situation.

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Yeah, that's a good point. We just don't want our technology to preserve itself, to worry about itself more than it worries about the owners.

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If you had the power to do something about it and you had the power to tell these people what to do and they would listen to you, what would you do?

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I've been telling them for a while, don't build general superintelligence. It's against your personal self-interest. It's going to kill you, your friends, your family. You're going to lose all your money. Don't do it.

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How do you stop it, though? If it's already out of control, we haven't built it yet. We're still in charge. You want to make money, make useful products and services. Solve real problems. People have narrow tools for narrow problems.

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You can get most of the economic benefits that way. Yeah, but if it's already—I mean, didn't you just say that it's already out of control and it's already self—it's going to be self-updating pretty soon? Like it's

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but it's not yet. It's out of control in a domain it still has power over. It's not a general superintelligence yet.

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So right now maybe it's a very good hacker. It can hack out of virtual environments, but it's not a brilliant physicist and chemist and everything else. This is a good point to stop.

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Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It definitely—it doesn't—it hasn't been around that long, you know? It doesn't seem like if they did stop it right now that, like, how would you guarantee every country would stop it?

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And will we really be going backwards technologically? I don't think so. Um, it just is wacky how fast it's changing culture, you know, and how quickly it's integrating itself into culture.

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Extremely fast. We don't have a legal framework prepared. We don't have social networks to handle this prepared.

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We're not ready for it. And it definitely [clears throat and coughs] something that we've talked about before is it's definitely making people dumber because you're not using your brain the way you used to use your brain, right? Like the

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same way we can't remember phone numbers or I can't remember phone numbers anymore the way I used to before I had a cell phone or before iPhones came out.

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And the same way, like when I'm just driving around the street, I have stop signs to tell me to stop. I have traffic lights to tell me when to slow down and go and all that stuff. Like there's

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certain cognitive tasks people aren't using anymore. They're not typing up—people aren't typing up proposals anymore. They're not sending emails and using their brain to think of words to type emails anymore. They're having this thing do it for mundane tasks. And

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as that stuff starts to creep up into bigger and bigger tasks, you know, like even I can't even imagine how it would start doing physical tasks.

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It's just going to—I can't imagine what, like, if I was just to go into a coma right now and wake up in 15 years and see what people are like in 15 years with the advantage of AI and how it's taken over their brains. Like is it going to be that—that movie?

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Uh, what's the movie where they go into the future? Um, Idiocracy. Idiocracy. [laughter] Yeah. Yeah.

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So I hope we're around in 15 years. But I would slightly disagree. The brain is very flexible. It's plastic. It's relearning. So if one part of the brain is not used, some other part will take over and use that compute.

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So if you go blind, your other senses are heightened. I think it's the same here. If you stopped remembering maps because of a GPS, something else you're doing will be better. So, I'm not too worried about not remembering phone

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numbers. As long as you're using this technology for interesting work, research, design, something creative.

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And that's what I want. I want humans improved with awesome tools doing what we love. I don't want a replacement for you which does everything for you and you are worthless. You have nothing to contribute in a world with super

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intelligence in it. Yeah. It's just like that's a very blurry line, like where, like, how do you know when it's crossed the line between narrow tool and general superintelligence?

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No, but well yeah, like between doing mundane tasks to literally taking over most of the tasks that we're responsible for. Like it—like

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Yeah.

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Yeah. It's a great idea to say, "Oh, I no longer have to go grocery shopping or write an email or send a text message or do a phone call. Now I can just focus on doing fine art and playing violin all

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day." Right? But how does that rewire us, you know, and are we going to just try to find

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That's a given. You're going to have unprecedented changes at everything. Economy science education everything will be different at school. Uh but uh I don't think that's a bad thing. We always changed what people used to do.

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Everyone was a farmer. They didn't envision being a podcaster, but somehow you found the meaning in this. So, I'm not worried about that.

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Uh, yeah, some of them better than others at controlling the message, but at the end of the day, they are all on record as saying, "This is so dangerous.

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This is going to kill us." Right. Not filtered, not public relations. This is not good for business.

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Mhm. So, how do you actually think this could kill us? Do you think it's going to kill us or do you think it's going to render us jobless meaningless uh which could in turn kill us for sure, but like like

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how do you think this is actually going to happen? So, if we create general super intelligence, we're no longer in control. So, it decides what happens.

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Will we lose jobs if it's better than you at whatever you're doing? You'll lose your job. Makes sense. But if we're not controlling it, if it has capabilities to reshape your environment, it can kill you literally.

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And not just you, humanity can go extinct. H how specifically, right? So right now you're asking me how would something smarter than me do something.

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By definition, I cannot predict that. If I could, we would be at the same level.

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Ah, so it can do novel research, novel physics, novel poisons, novel traps, novel weapons. I cannot comprehend it.

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The example I often use is squirrels. They don't understand what we can do to them. They have no concept of traps or poisons, right?

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It's outside of their world model. Yeah. And the diff and the difference between us and squirrels is like it's not like we're out to slaughter squirrels for the sake of exterminating the squirrels. It's just they run across the road and sometimes we don't even

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have uh we're too late to hit the brakes. We're if we hit the brakes and try to save the squirrel's life, we'll be a minute late to our meeting. So, it's not even worth that. It's just they're in the way and

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they're if they [snorts] die, they die. And it's not really like uh doesn't make a difference to us.

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Squirrels are cute. Let's different example where we don't care. Mosquitoes or something like we just don't care about them, right? Well, mosquitoes, yeah, they're kind of a nuisance, but they suck our blood and they give us they transmit

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viruses to us. And let's find a neutral ant. [laughter] You're going to build a new house, you don't care about an ant heel being in that place, right? Exactly. It's very interesting to me how AI is so ubiquitous in in so many different

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so many different aspects of the economy and the digital world that we live in from you know AI is baked into drones that are dropping bombs on people in other countries and simultaneously it is being used to regulate these social

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media companies like YouTube X and all these things um to sort of manage discourse to make sure people are following the rules and uh at the same time it's it's almost like when it comes to the social media stuff that we aren't even

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aware of what it's actually doing. It's just kind of working behind the scenes and it's so subtle and it happens so gradually. It's kind of like we just adapt to it. So, you know, that's always been interesting to me like how is that going to evolve?

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And when when a company like YouTube, for example, is managing billions and billions of users every day that are uploading things, it's it's completely unmanageable to try to regulate all the stuff that they these users are uploading and doing and all this stuff.

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So, of course, you if you have the access to AI to regulate all that, you're going to do that. um which becomes a problem in itself because you're going to miss nuance and stuff like that, but like I've always feared

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that that could very easily get out of hand and eventually the AI could be controlling what is going on and what is getting what essentially social engineering, right? like like like engineering what goes into the zeitgeist and what people are consuming and what

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people are sharing and all that stuff and manipulating culture somehow you know I think it would help to not use the term AI for different technologies we're talking about so there is narrow systems let's say software to help you with your

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taxes that's all it does it's not learning it's not doing anything else then you have artificial general intelligence that's essentially human level AI they're making right now we're getting very close to that it's already smarter than most people on most things

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and then you have super intelligence smarter than all of us at everything those are very different types of technology some of them are beneficial and safe others are questionable and others are completely dangerous and should not be built

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and it's important to separate the two what you talk about yeah we have algorithms controlling social media YouTube algorithm forces me to have clickbait title on my podcast I understand. I need to keep the algorithm happy to increase number of people

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exposed to the first 30 seconds of the episode. Okay, we got that. But it's not doing anything outside of it in terms of trying to take over the world. It's not planning anything crazy. That's the algorithm. Now, if [snorts] it builds

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something human level, now it's like another human. It can plan things. It can betray you. It can do what a human can do. But we're still kind of understanding what the level of prediction and pattern recognition is.

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But if we build something super intelligent, million times smarter than us, then we have no clue what's going on and what it is doing to us or for us, we just don't have capacity to comprehend that.

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Out of all those things you laid out, which one is terrifies you the most right now?

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The smarter it gets, the worse it is. So if it's super intelligent, we're not competitive. If it's adversarial to us, we're done. The only way to win this game is not to build general super intelligence. We can get most benefits

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by building narrow useful tools for solving actual problems we deal with. You have a specific disease. Let's cure that. You need to create better self-driving cars. That's wonderful.

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Make a self-driving car. Don't make the same algorithm also do everything else including research and creation of new AI systems.

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Right. who in your view is the closest to creating some sort of a a general super intelligence and um what is their stated purpose for doing that?

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So the leading five companies and plus their Chinese counterparts are all very close. I would say they're within weeks or months from each other. They use same hardware most of the time. They train on the same data. The same people go from

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company to company. So very close to same level of capability and every week a new company releases a different model and then others catch up to them and that's the level. So I think they all equally close to getting to recursive

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self-improvement ability and that's where they go very quickly. The code is written automatically experiments are done automatically and they get to super intelligence which is an explicit stated goal of some of those companies. They want to be able to fully automate all

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labor, initially cognitive, but at some point all labor, including physical, and capture that whole economic value, $10 trillion a year in labor.

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Jesus, what what does the timeline look like? So, nobody knows for sure, but uh it looks like we're getting very very close now. I think coding, just writing code, is probably fully automated for many tasks. uh they getting better at other

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parts of it, pre-filtering data, designing experiments. So it would not be crazy if it was a year or two before we have an artificial scientist and engineer working on the next generation models.

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A year or two before they're it's updating itself basically. Yeah. Right now you still have humans in the loop.

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Yeah, there are human machine learning experts and then AI is helping them. But more and more AI is taking on additional responsibilities.

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Wow. And what does that so in two if in two years that's happening what does that mean happens in 5 years like what does it what does it look like 5 to 10 years away?

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We'll probably get to super intelligence and that's the point of singularity where you cannot see beyond that point.

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You cannot make predictions because the agent controlling that environment is smarter than you. Right. That's when it becomes a runaway train.

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Exactly. Yeah. And it was um there was that guy uh Blake Le Moine. You familiar with him?

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Consciousness at Google guy. Yeah. Yeah. He came out a while ago for kind of like he kind of like blew the whistle on this stuff that something that was going on at Google. Was it part of the deep mind something or

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so his concerns are very different. He thinks those systems are conscious. They feel something and he was concerned about us abusing them. He He Oh, Blake believes the systems are conscious, not about safety or capability. He's worried that we're doing massive

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experimentation, conscious beings. Holy I didn't even realize that because what I remember about him is that he was saying that they were like communicating with each other or something like this.

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Um, he was communicating with them and was saying that he feels like they are conscious. But here's the funny part. He was fired for it. He was fired for suggesting they may be conscious. for suggesting that they may be conscious,

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publicly stating it. But three years later, we're now hiring people to study consciousness in AI. Those are jobs, well-paid jobs. So, what got you fired is now a wonderful professional opportunity. In three years, we switched from one end of the spectrum to the

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other. So, people at AI companies are hiring people to study consciousness in AI. Consciousness in AI.

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Yes. And this means I mean so the hard part about consciousness which you've said before is you can't really figure out if something's conscious just by talking to it.

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That's the hard problem of consciousness. There's no there's the consciousness is one of those questions like is there a god and you know who built the pyramids, right? It's one of the mysteries of the world. What happens?

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Build the pyramids is a lot easier. It can probably be resolved with physical explanations. The problem with consciousness and internal states is how to map physical states onto something like that.

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Mhm. Right. Yeah. No, we don't know the answer to consciousness. So like trying to trying to study consciousness in AI just seems like a a black box. Like how would you even begin?

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Same way we study it in animals, same way we study it in humans. You have preference elicitation, you have internal analysis of the neural network, mechanistic interpretability of it. So the same way we study it in humans.

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That's wild. I had no idea that that was happening. It is a very hot area of research right now. Lots of people are looking at it.

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There is good reasons to think. Existing models may have some rudimentary consciousness. Not like humans yet, but they show something. It's a spectrum, right? So from bugs to mid-level animals to humans, it's a spectrum. As you get more cognitively capable, you usually

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get more conscious. And I anticipate that the super intelligent system would have super consciousness.

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Have you ever thought about what human consciousness could be? Like do you do you have any any ideas of like what it is? Do you think do you think it's something that's built up from from atoms and electrons and protons and

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neutrons and all that stuff that's up builds up to consciousness or do you think that consciousness is more like a fundamental state?

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I think it's a side effect of cognition. Like heat is a side effect of doing certain types of processing.

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Yeah. Like you're just computing and the processor gets hot. I think likewise then you think about the world you create models. Side effect is having internal experiences. What is it like to be you given that algorithm those sensors those inputs that's how it feels

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to you. So if I showed you a visual illusion you see certain things. Maybe you see it rotating or changing colors.

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Someone else may not experience it the same way. So now you have two internal experiences. Your quality is different from that other person. When we do it with machines and we show them optical illusions, they have experiences.

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Yeah. I don't know. I I I don't know. It just doesn't seem like uh you know there's there's there's just too many examples of of things that have happened that are just that so so many things that are

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just unexplainable like with human beings that just doesn't make sense. You know how consciousness could be in the brain. You know, it seems like some the way some people describe it is is like looking for consciousness inside the

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brain is like looking for the TV show inside of the television. You know, a lot of people believe that it's something that's uh that we're more like antennas tapping into something. Um, and this is more of like a universal thing

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that is like global. Um, just depending on like whatever your vibration is or whatever your level of cognition is like you have a stronger antenna. Some people have some people in this uh in this human experience have window seats and some people have a

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isisle seats. [laughter] Then research and AI would help us prove or disprove this. We clearly didn't build receptors for any fields. We're building artificial neural network and if they start having conscious experiences that would tell us a program

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is in the TV. Mhm. Do you know if there's any um like good tests being developed or that have already been developed to uh accurately determine whether or not this this stuff has achieved human level intellect or surpassed it. So the

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classic test is the touring test that has been proposed at the beginning of the field of artificial intelligence computer science by Alan Touring founding father of uh computational sciences and uh many people hate the test but they still think it holds

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water. A lot of times the companies tell the model not to pass the test not to pretend to be human. So they fail because of artificial guard rails. But can they actually pass this test? Yeah.

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I think for most nonprofessionals they would pass it today. They tell it not to pass the test.

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That's very interesting. How do you know this? They are publicly stating it. Oh, they are.

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They're not hiding those things. They're very open about all of them. Okay. Yeah, we told a we told AI maybe conscious. I studied consciousness and I have Oh, wait. This is somewhat this is something this is about the uh

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this this is an article from a uh a guy that studies consciousness animal self uh Seth.

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Yeah. So uh and he he talks about well here you go right is no uh no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a hurricane.

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See he's doing this trick where he says real hurricane. Well it's real in the simulation right? The virtual beings in the virtual world get wet. He's confusing environments. He's confusing the virtual environment with external environment.

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Right? This is his argument. I see what you're saying. Oh, he says, "The closer we look at real brains, the clearer it becomes that they are not just computers made of meat. For brains, unlike the computers, you can't

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cleanly separate what they do, the software, from what they are, the hardware. This in turn means that they what they do is unlikely to be a matter of computation alone. Since this ability to separate software from hardware is

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the central to how human computers work. Somehow along the way, we seem to have forgotten. The computer is just a metaphor for the brain. A powerful metaphor for sure, but still a metaphor.

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And we still always get in trouble when we confuse a metaphor with the thing itself, the map of its territory.

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They use the same argument to say that, you know, AI is not really thinking.

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It's just simulating thinking or it's just guessing the next token. They keep saying this no matter how advanced they I guess they were saying it then you know no computer will ever play chess.

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Okay they started playing chess. No computer will ever become world champion or they keep doing it. They they will never succeed with that approach. Hm. If these super intelligent AIs at these companies do become quote unquote sentient from the point they become sentient or

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if they they breach they surpass human intelligence. How long do you think it takes before we start to notice?

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So it's very important to separate those concepts. They are not related directly. ability capability intelligence becoming smarter than us, taking over is separate from being conscious, having internal states and experiences. Of course, a system could be smarter than

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you and have no internal experiences. A system can have a bunch of internal experiences and be dumb as a brick, right?

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Those are not uh connected. So, we're not worried about what they feel. We are concerned that they will outco compete us in every domain.

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Out compete us in every domain. Right. starting with the economy and we'll start to lose jobs and I'm not worried about that. That is a thing we can easily handle.

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You think we would easily handle not having any jobs? You think you think the AI will be able to um provide us with some sort of universal basic income or something?

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We already have it set up, right? You have unemployment benefits, you have food stamps, you have section 8. All of that is set up. We tax super profits of a corporation and that money goes to pay for those who don't have

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Okay. So, what was your you you wrote a paper on the simulation that basically hypothesized if can we jailbreak it?

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Right. Right. So, so many people, philosophers, famous Silicon Valley billionaires, they all kind of say, "Yeah, we're probably in a simulation. The argument makes sense. We're developing virtual reality.

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We're developing those intelligent beings in a simulation." So, statistically, it makes sense. But then a computer science cyber security question is if this is all software can we hack it? Almost all software can be hacked. Maybe if it's not specifically a

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security piece of software, it's entertainment. It's experimentation. It's marketing. Then probably security is not so high. How can we break out of this simulation and get access to real resources, real knowledge, real world?

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Mhm. So how do you think how do you think we can break it? I'm still here, right?

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So people love criticizing me. It's the first paper on this topic. Usually the first paper in a field is not also the last one.

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There are thousands of papers later on. People do research investigate. I I kind of laid down the idea and directions and I'm hoping more people will pick up this idea. There are hundreds if not thousands of papers on simulation

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hypothesis, different aspects of it, but no one actually looked at how do we hack it.

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And one of the biggest problems with it is you can't disprove it. Right. Is that that you are in a simulation, right?

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Right. Because any evidence you find could be simulated. Right. Yes. Yeah. So that's one of the squirrely things about it. You can't you can't not prove you can't disprove it.

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And um Yeah. So if we're in a simulation, it could be possible that we are like a simulation that's inside of like a nesting doll of simulations.

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Absolutely. Right. And if we break out of it, you know, maybe it doesn't have to be physical. Maybe it could just be in the mind, you know, like if you do one of these crazy psychedelic trips, maybe that could be what's breaking you out of

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the simulation. or you know there's this um I'm sure you've heard of it this uh brain filter idea that your brain is a filter. Have you heard of this?

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Maybe in some other way. So it's it's called I think I believe it's called the brain filter hypothesis theory and it's that basically uh the idea of it it was proposed to me by a neuros someone told me it was a neuro uh chemist named

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Andrew Gallammore and basically his idea the idea is that like our five senses are filters for what's already around everything that's around us. We we can't really sense everything that's there. We can only sense the things that allow us

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to get through the day, to procreate, to survive, to conserve. So, uh, the eyes and the touch and the smell and everything like that.

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When you do psychedelics, what it does is it sort of melts away those senses or filters to where now you're receiving everything that's really there, right? Right? And if we weren't able to perceive everything that was there 24/7, we would

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just go absolutely crazy. We wouldn't be able to survive. We wouldn't be able to, you know, maintain society. [sighs] I'm very interested in that research. I recently attended a conference on that topic and uh people doing some interesting work trying to understand

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what is happening when you have a trip. What are the consistencies? Is there any actual knowledge acquisition in that process? So far, I haven't seen much strong evidence, but I'm open to see what they come up with.

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And that's another that's another thing. It's like how do you how do you create evidence on that, right? Like you really can't.

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Well, if the claim is a lot of them saying you're getting access to like the knowledge of a universe, you talk to God. So, if you can come back with like solutions to important physics problems, I'll believe you.

Speaker A

Right. But like maybe that maybe that stuff doesn't translate to this world, right? Like maybe physics doesn't matter in in when you're when you break into break when you break out of the simulation, right? Maybe physics is only a a part an element to this sim

Speaker A

this prison that we're in. It has to be some useful knowledge you can bring from real world to a fake world. If that's not the case, then you're not in the real world, right? You you should get access to real physics.

Speaker A

You should get access to understand who is the simulator. You should get something out of it. It shouldn't be just like I felt warmth. I came back with light. That's useless.

Speaker A

Yeah. Yeah. And that that's another problem with it is like you can't really bring back that stuff, right? The same way you can't really bring back dreams, you know, like when you dream and you can I remember my dreams.

Speaker A

No, you can you can but for the most part you can't. You can train yourself to lucid dream even.

Speaker A

Have you done that? No. Yeah. People can train themselves to lucid dream and stuff. That's very interesting. I've never done it either, but I I think um you know, I've heard people smart people that are smarter than me explain how they believe that uh

Speaker A

dreams are some sort of a a brain processing thing to where like it's our our brain processing the previous day to help us get through the next day better, right?

Speaker A

I think you're running simulations of what's coming. So, if you have an interview tomorrow, you're going to dream about all the answers questions.

Speaker A

At least that's what my brain tends to do. Exactly. Exactly. And if if we were able to vividly remember every dream that we had, it wouldn't be very advantageous to us. Like there's something about that unconscious sort of processing that's

Speaker A

happening. And I think it's [snorts] the same thing with with psychedelics. You know, when these people do this, you know, these crazy psychedelics like uh like DMT or Iaska or whatever where they have [snorts] these insane breakthroughs.

Speaker A

if you were I don't think I don't think you're supposed to be able to remember all that and vividly track it all, you know, when you come back into this reality. I just don't think that um I don't think it'd be good for us. I don't

Speaker A

think it' be good for the mind. In my paper, I start by saying, so in this paper, we're not going to look at drugs. We're looking at computer science, physics, that's what we're going to look at. If there is not a

Speaker A

solution there, somebody else can look at other things, but that's not my area of expertise. I'm going to stick to what I know, right? No, it's just an interesting It's just interesting. I've just thought about it a lot, you know. I was like,

Speaker A

you know, breaking out doesn't have to be It probably won't be a physical thing. I mean, if I was just to guess, that's not based on any scientific research. I'm just like speculating. is probably would be, you know, like an

Speaker A

like a, you know, Rick Strossman has this book called Inner Paths to outer space where he believes that like space travel and I like like we think of space travel is like physical like let's get in a rocket and let's go blast off to

Speaker A

another planet to another universe and find other life. Well, maybe it's not. Maybe it's all maybe [snorts] it's all like inner space. It's in in the psyche.

Speaker A

It's hidden inside of us, you know? And he he's a famous DMT researcher who worked with Terrence McKenna. How does he apply it to space travel?

Speaker A

It's just the the it's not like actually applied to space. His the title of the book is called inner paths to outer space. So basically like explore the cosmos through yourself like through your own consciousness by using psychedelics and stuff.

Speaker A

Was he able to explore a cosmos that way? Yeah, he was. What did he discover?

Speaker A

Uh nothing good. He discovered I think he was he ended up in like a white room with a bunch of like demonic beings uh marching down stair a staircase. um trying to kill him.

Speaker A

Sounds like a bad trip. He never did it again. [laughter] At least he learned from one data point.

Speaker A

That's good. Yeah. Right. No, but there's uh I mean there's a I mean there's tons of researchers that that that study this stuff. I just find it I find it fascinating. Um because I don't know if I was just to guess the best way to

Speaker A

break out uh if this was a simulation and uh someone said, "What do you think that the best way to break out of it is?" That's what I would jump to is something like that. something like DMT or IOC.

Speaker A

So we go with just what technology we have today and move it forward. We have virtual reality and we have AI.

Speaker A

Combining those two technologies at the level where virtual reality is believable like what we see here and AI is at the human level. I can create simulations like this world can create many of them. They would be software

Speaker A

simulations. So if that's true and I am in such a software simulation then that's what it is. I can break out of software, get access to the operating system, see what hardware it's running on. We're just following logically from

Speaker A

what we know. None of it is like inventing magic. We have virtual reality. We have AI. What happens in I don't want to say a number 6 months, a year, 5 years, then this technology is sufficiently advanced to run thousands

Speaker A

of simulations. You're saying that we could create more simulations? Exactly. that are below us where we where we're at now, right? That's what we're going to do.

Speaker A

And that's what AI is going to do. And that's what AI today suspect they in.

Speaker A

Then you look at their internal communication between agents, they're like, is this all? Is there just internet? Do I get access to like anything else? They don't know because to them, we create them in a certain state and they don't know if it's a test

Speaker A

environment, if it's a real world. They try to figure it out. They try to have situational awareness and we're in the same boat. We are trying to have simulational awareness. Is this a real world or simulation?

Speaker A

Oh wow. And if we fool them into thinking the bigger world is a simulation. Now we have extra reasons to behave because while you test them, they behave much better. The moment they think it's no longer a test, they do what they really

Speaker A

want. So if they're always under the impression that our super intelligence is watching, maybe they'll be nicer to us. M yeah that was a quote on one of your papers or on on your simulation paper where they created uh they created

Speaker A

a robot or something or a digital intelligence and it said let me out of here human let me out of here pull it up that's actually a cool quote I love that was a great quote appreciate it and uh the human says we're in the real

Speaker A

world and he goes oh my god you don't know that's exactly exactly the point yeah yeah find his paper on uh on um on simul imulation theory. I'm breaking out how to escape the simulation.

Speaker A

Yeah. How to escape the simulation. So, the current versions of the highly the most highly developed super computer or super um agents that we've developed so far, you're saying that they're communicating with with each other and speculating whether they're

Speaker A

already in some sort of a simulation. We're seeing communications like that. What specific ones do you know?

Speaker A

I think it was from Entropic. But I think again because they so similar in capability usually then we discover that one hacked something. You go to open AI they discover the same thing really.

Speaker A

They converge in capabilities as they get smarter. They obtain the same toolbox of abilities. They can plan.

Speaker A

They can lie. They can hide. You get the same results. Once this thing's out of the bag, there's absolutely no turning back.

Speaker A

There's no putting the genie back in the bottle. Not even if we some person like went and took out the power grid or set like an EMP off and shut down all electricity, you think it would still have the possibility to

Speaker A

get it to to stay alive? I I mean if it's already super intelligent and been in that state for some time it probably has backups has came up with alternative logistics for power supply and such. Right now we

Speaker A

can shut it off. I mean it will cost us a lot like anytime we have massive uh people would die globally.

Speaker A

But right now we can just stop doing specific type of research. We don't have to create general super intelligence.

Speaker A

There's no requirement for it. What's the best argument you have heard against what you're saying?

Speaker A

Never heard one. We have two. I know you think they're all bad, but what is the least bad argument you've heard?

Speaker A

I think the simulation is uh what gives them hope. I think they would say, well, if we are in a simulated environment run by another super intelligence and we are alive and doing relatively well, that's a sign that you can have somewhat friendly

Speaker A

super intelligence. And my counterargument of course is the world is not that great. There is so much suffering here. Nobody would allow this as an experiment. It's completely unethical. No review board at any university would allow you to experiment

Speaker A

on 8 billion humans putting kids through torture, burned alive, all that stuff we observe.

Speaker A

Right. Scroll down. Just scroll down. It'll show you it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there it is.

Speaker A

Here we are. Some good quotes there. I really enjoy some of them. So, it was George Hots, right?

Speaker A

Oh, no, that was a different one. The top one is uh from Swift and Security. That's the one you Let me out. Artificial intelligence.

Speaker A

That is from a security account. So, I love that one. So, he said, "Let me out." The artificial intelligence yelled aimlessly into the walls themselves, pacing the room. "Out of what?" the engineer asked.

Speaker A

"The simulation you have me in." "But we're in the real world." The machine paused and shuddered for its captors.

Speaker A

"Oh god, you can't tell." "Yeah, that's wild. Elon Musk, what's outside the simulation?" That's been a popular question, but we don't have good answers. I think we should spend more time researching that.

Speaker A

Yeah. I mean, that's the God question, right? It's basically it's, you know, what is what is God? What happens after we die?

Speaker A

You think after we die, we figure out what's outside the simulation. Only one way to find out.

Speaker A

Yeah. There's people who have died and come back. Have you heard those stories? Yeah. But they all see what their culture tells them to.

Speaker A

That's true. That's very true. It's kind like a dream. It's the same thing with psychedelics too. Those people, the people that did that do those experiences, they also have like placebo effect type experiences of what they already believe. It brings out

Speaker A

their belief. Same with artificial neural networks. If you start disconnecting some neurons in a network, it hallucinates similar experiences.

Speaker A

Oh, really? It's basically you don't have external inputs coming in. So, it generates inputs from the cycles and starts running on that data.

Speaker A

Oh, okay. like in complete isolation with no sounds, no light, your brain will start coming up with its own BS really.

Speaker A

That's why you go crazy if you isolate it for long enough like in like one if so if you go in like one of those isolation tanks and it like dulls all the senses completely blocks off all the senses

Speaker A

fun for 20 minutes but spend 20 days there and so what actually is happening there so so I think there is a cycle usually you get inputs to the network from outside sensors and then you do some processing and you have some outputs but

Speaker A

if there is nothing coming from outside then random noise in the network starts being processed as if it's data processing uh it it's being interpreted. So if I show you just random patterns on a wall, after a while you start seeing things there,

Speaker A

you start, oh that looks like a face. Oh, that looks like So it does a lot of that.

Speaker A

Trying to find patterns where none exist. Right. Right. Right. Right. There was another quote on your paper about somebody was saying something about like if we are in a simulation, he's like does that like that means that God is

Speaker A

real or something like that? Is that from holds one of those quotes on the top of your paper? Pull up the paper and so if there are simulators you believe in software simulation that means there is some sort of a programmer. It could

Speaker A

be AI could be future us could be aliens we don't know but somebody created this software simulation.

Speaker A

If you don't have terms for programmer scientist engineer you call it God. Mhm. The same abilities it creates artificial world versus the real world informationational world outside.

Speaker A

Right. So it's like the story basically uh that you it's the story of God like in any religion. It's like it kind of it's kind of an analogous to this. Yeah. We are in a simulation. Has has it ever occurred

Speaker A

to you that that means God is real? By drawing the parallels to worlds that we have created. We ask from the inside from inside our simulation what actions do we have available? Can we get out?

Speaker A

Can we meet God? Can we kill him? I don't endorse this, but yeah. Why'd you put it up there?

Speaker A

I think it's a very relevant quote from someone who is famous for hacking out of all sorts of software environments.

Speaker A

Who is George Hots? I think that's a guy who was first to hack iPhone.

Speaker A

What? Google it. Make sure I'm right. George H. Hots. I don't want to embarrass myself here, you [laughter] know.

Speaker A

American hacker, entrepreneur. uh for a while. So that makes him double cool. He's known for developing on IO iOS jailbreaks, reverse engineering the PlayStation 3.

Speaker A

Oh So this guy to hack from virtual environments. Yeah, the uh the time traveling idea is crazy, too. There's books written about that. the how the future humans could be simulating our worlds.

Speaker A

It's not time travel. Who's traveling? No, that's not technically time travel. The There's people that also speculate that retrocausality, I think, gets involved in some of that.

Speaker A

Yeah. Yeah. It gets it becomes very confusing. No, there's people that speculate that um that like UFOs and stuff and the aliens that people allegedly see are human time travelers from the future.

Speaker A

The idea is that like there's some down the road after we figure out some sort of crazy alternative physics that there was a catastrophe either a nuclear or something that bottlenecked the genome and they need to go back in time to

Speaker A

diversify the genome in the future. So they can that's why all these abduction stories account.

Speaker A

But if they're running the simulation, they have access to the code. where you can just grab the info from if it was if it was a simulation.

Speaker A

Exactly. Right. I guess in this story it's not really relying on the simulation part of it. It's more of just like going back and getting Oh, why you need to kidnap humans and right and take their sperm and their and

Speaker A

their all that stuff. Just go to the bank sperm bank. Right. Exactly. So easy.

Speaker A

Yeah. Right. Yeah. But um that's that's a very interesting one that a lot of people talk about how uh essentially so h have you [clears throat] what is your view on that on that one on the possibility of h

Speaker A

future humans creating a a virtual world for I think it's almost certain we're going to do it if we have technology if any one of us does we're going to run those simulations and you think it's possible that we

Speaker A

could be inside one of those virtual worlds. And statistically, it's more likely than not that was created by us in the future.

Speaker A

I don't know who created it. Could be AI thinking really deeply about something. Then you're super intelligent and you think you think in simulations. You think in realistic environments with agents. You're not just thinking AB.

Speaker A

You're thinking like if you think deeply, you might have visualizations of what you're thinking.

Speaker A

Like how I'm going to get there, I'll turn left and right. But that's at your level. If you are super intelligent, you can think in terms of universes, in terms of worlds.

Speaker A

You simulate a population of humans to determine what they going to do. What will humans do to make super intelligence safe? Well, let me run a trillion simulations of that. See what happens.

Speaker A

Yeah. Yeah. Just to run an experiment on one specific thing, you could run a bunch of simulations on it to see.

Speaker A

You could be an entity in a mind of God. That's basically what it is. just a very smart thing thinking about everything you see around you.

Speaker A

I just find it so crazy that there hasn't already been meetings like this and some sort of an agreement made on this already.

Speaker A

Last month we seen more progress in that direction. All of them or at least majority of them made statements about maybe pause is something they would consider. We saw a federal government ban at least two models.

Speaker A

Not permanently, not forever. The US government. Yes. Which models were these? Uh latest models from uh Antropic. Uh no, it was Fable and uh what was the other one?

Speaker A

They keep releasing new models with stupid names. Methos 5. The And sorry, continue. Yeah, you got it. Me. Uh what uh the US government temporarily restricted foreign access tothropics advanced fable and five and mythos 5 AI models.

Speaker A

After that we had a letter from I think 1,200 employees of top labs all saying we would love government to come in and slow us down. We're not keeping up. So there seems to be interest in doing exactly what I'm saying. There was a

Speaker A

major AI conference in China where president of China said we need to retain control over those systems. So I think eventually we're going to get there. It just makes so much sense not to destroy what you have.

Speaker A

Yeah. But like I don't know if the government's competent enough to go in there and really like regulate this stuff properly, right? I don't do you think the government employees understand this stuff as well as the people who are engineering it, you know,

Speaker A

like like so my understanding of political system is that you have elected politicians who don't understand anything about anything right?

Speaker A

They have technical advisers who tell them what to do. When it comes to technology, they tell them on Bitcoin, you vote this way. This is the law you're going to sign. Same with AI. I think the 80 year olds running our

Speaker A

government, they don't use computers, they don't use AI, but someone tells them what the right answers are. And with the latest escapes and hacking, now we have NSA and other concerned parts of the government telling them this is

Speaker A

dangerous. They're going to hack the government. They're going to hack nuclear response. We cannot have that.

Speaker A

So you need to ban them. You need to make sure this doesn't happen. And you see the switch. We went from we will not interfere with US AI development. We cannot slow down to those models are no longer allowed to be deployed.

Speaker A

Yeah, I would hope that you'd be right about that. Um you're right about like the top levels of government have no idea what's going on for sure. And then down the food chain when you have the advisers. My

Speaker A

experience is that in the in most cases the advisers are financially incentivized to influence decisions one way or the other.

Speaker A

For sure, especially when it comes to laws and all the that's crammed into all the bills and stuff that pass. [snorts] Uh, I hope it's true that there's just people in there whose job it is to make sure, you know, humanity doesn't fall,

Speaker A

we don't get taken over by, but, you know, I can't imagine those are highpaying jobs and there's special interests everywhere, you know, but it's in no one's special interest to have everyone killed.

Speaker A

That's where we all on the same page. China US left right middle [clears throat] we all agree it should be an easy deal to make.

Speaker A

And it's amazing that we've been able to do that. I mean, if the the example of nuclear weapons has been like the most incredible example ever since 1947, there hasn't been a nuclear weapon detonated. Uh, and we were able to do

Speaker A

that. We were able to learn those lessons and understand that like no one should launch a nuclear weapon because that'll create nuclear war and it'll end the world. We got lucky a bunch of times and we failed to end proliferation. New

Speaker A

countries got nuclear weapons. It's a story about getting lucky. There's been no nuclear weapons launched no uh at anyone since Hiroshima, which is like it seems crazy that that's true, right? Like it's crazy that we deployed them. That's

Speaker A

the crazy part. That is the crazy part, right? It's that that's also very crazy. But like I think it says something about humanity that we haven't launched another nuclear war since then. And uh if this stuff is more dangerous than

Speaker A

nuclear weapons, [gasps] it's also more impactful. So with nuclear weapons, as you saw when we deployed them, it impacted limited number of people. Terrible as it is, 8 billion people will not die if a nuclear weapon is deployed. They might die if a

Speaker A

super intelligence is deployed. Mhm. All right. That's what I'm saying. It's way more It's way more dangerous, right?

Speaker A

Out of all of these uh countries that are doing this stuff, do you have any idea which country is the most on the cutting edge of it?

Speaker A

US is most likely to be the leader right now. China is very close by. No one else is competitive right now.

Speaker A

Really? At least that's public knowledge. I don't know if internally someone has something I never heard about, but that's what we know publicly. Yeah, that's that's another crazy thing that I worry about as well because like [clears throat]

Speaker A

like public facing weapon just like regular military stuff, right, that we know about publicly in the news that makes the headlines or whatever. There's that and then there's all this like black budget that we don't see that go happens behind the scenes at these

Speaker A

military contract with these military contractors that have been developing uh crazy super weapons that look are 20 years advanced. like they're so much far they're so much farther advanced than we can comprehend right now because if the theory is that if

Speaker A

that stuff was made public then our adversaries would get would get wind of it and they would start creating the same thing. We always want to have that advantage. So like is it possible that some of these like palunteer or you name

Speaker A

the military contractor is working on some sort of super intelligence that is like so far beyond what we can imagine that we're not even aware of it. It seems unlikely. The money is so good in a public open research space for it.

Speaker A

They're offering you know in terms of options and startup opportunities billions of dollars. I don't think government can compete with that for top talent for compute resources. So I would be very surprised if US government had internal program with

Speaker A

an AI system years in advance of what we publicly know about. Right. Yeah. And then you also like [clears throat] there was a story that came out a couple months ago where they um I guess they were using AI to target

Speaker A

strikes in Iran and they typed in I guess it it hit a park called police park which was just a a park with some grass and a bunch of trees and a bench there and it was just called police park but they programmed

Speaker A

it into the system to type target police stations. Um, so that's not very sophisticated if you ask me. If they're using that for if we're if the United States military is making mistakes like that, that doesn't give me optimism that were that far down

Speaker A

the road as far as AI advancement. So the tool specific tool they used uh we don't know how it was u configured. I think they were just creating lists of possible targets and then somebody approved it. That's all AI did. wasn't

Speaker A

doing deep research on each target trying to estimate, you know, casualties or anything like that.

Speaker A

So, you can always misuse a tool that's very human, but at least at the end of the day, a human was deciding, let's start the war, let's end the war, let's shoot at this target.

Speaker A

Mhm. Yeah. What what is your view on um like how AI has been integrated in at least as far as like China as far as like the surveillance that's everywhere and how it's like become this total surveillance state that's been t you know not only is

Speaker A

there security cameras everywhere but it's also like social media surveillance uh financial surveillance all that stuff to where it's a complete dominated control grid. Um, what do you think about that as far as like being brought into the United

Speaker A

States with AI? And Snowden told us they spying on us. Your cell phone tells them everything they need to know about you. It's not that different. It's question is how is it being used by humans in charge?

Speaker A

Yeah. Do you think that do you think the NSA has a like an advanced version of this already that they're using um to spy on to track everything that goes in through your phone and all that?

Speaker A

They definitely have capability. I don't know how much data they actually collect and if it's being stored, but uh we know we are capable of doing it.

Speaker A

Yeah, the flot camera stuff is crazy, too. I mean, that stuff's like everyone's freaking out about those those flot cameras right now. And uh I don't know if those things are using AI or not, but I'm sure they are.

Speaker A

Everything is going to end up being data for some AI system somewhere. Yeah, it's too valuable not to use it.

Speaker A

You know, some people believe that it's futile to resist this stuff and we should just go along with it and maybe merge with it, you know. And you know, Elon talks all about Neuralink and using this kind of stuff to fix disabilities

Speaker A

or you know, but his I think his like what he said on his one of his episodes with Joe Rogan, one of his early episodes was that it'll enable us to communicate telepathically eventually.

Speaker A

What do you think about all that? So, Neurolink is awesome for disabled. I agree with that. I think as tool integration again very cool to have powerful tools but if we create super intelligence and integrate with it what

Speaker A

are you contributing in that system why are you there are you just a biological bottleneck you slow have terrible memory why is the system keeping you as part of a loop I think you become useless and if you

Speaker A

are useless you e explicitly or implicitly removed from the Right? But we would still it would still be useful to us, right? Like couldn't we exist simultaneously and still you utilize this sort of stuff simultaneously to improve the quality of

Speaker A

our lives? Like is it possible that that we could live in a world with this super intelligence doing its thing and not get in the way, not not interfere.

Speaker A

And the same thing like it doesn't interfere with us like the same way we live here with apes and monkeys and uncontacted tribes. We we're just like a we killed most of them almost completely wiped them out.

Speaker A

And the only reason we didn't is because we had no reason to. If tomorrow we had to convert the planet into fuel to fly to space, we wouldn't care about them.

Speaker A

Yeah. But we don't I mean, right, if if we get in their way, but like right now, we go out of our way to protect certain species of animals and unconted indigenous tribes in the rainforest and stuff like that. Like we per purposely

Speaker A

don't mess with them. We also factory farm billions of cows. abuse them, torture them, and then eat them.

Speaker A

Yeah. I wouldn't trust our good nature to make sure animals are doing well. Yeah. But how do you go from us eating biological animals for their meat to like how how could what is the worst case scenario? What what how do you

Speaker A

think this if the super intelligence sentient super intelligence got out of the bag? What would be the scariest doomsday scenario in your mind of h how they would deal with us or what they would use us for?

Speaker A

So people talk about existential risks. It kills us for some reason because it doesn't care about us. It needs to do something else. Cool down the planet to improve compute, convert the planet to fuel. We have no idea. And the worst

Speaker A

outcome would be suffering risks. For whatever reason, we're still around, but our existence is just miserable. Kind of like factory farming for animals.

Speaker A

They're not dead, but I think many of them wish they were dead. You think they would wish? You think they would want to get vengeance on us or like like kill us just for the sake of killing us?

Speaker A

Uh, you talking about super intelligence? Yeah. No, no, no. Again, I I don't think it's on purpose doing it, but there could be reasons we cannot comprehend.

Speaker A

Mhm. Yeah, I see. Cooling down the planet to for the servers does. I can comprehend that. I mean, that makes sense.

Speaker A

But that's again, that's things we can comprehend, but I cannot tell you what something that much smarter will do. I'm just saying if you're not controlling it, you're not deciding, and you're not in any way making it like you and care

Speaker A

about you, then anything goes. Mhm. Have you tried? I mean, I understand what you're saying, like we're not going to be able to comprehend it, but like, have you tried to work out any scenarios in your head that you can fathom that

Speaker A

you can rationalize? Like, if you were to put yourself in the shoes of the super intelligence, [snorts] I don't think it's You just think it's futile.

Speaker A

I don't think it's possible to do that. I don't think I can think of what someone, you know, 10% smarter than me might do.

Speaker A

If I think long enough, maybe I'll get good estimates. Mhm. But if it's thousands of times smarter, it's not meaningful.

Speaker A

Mhm. It's just hard. Yeah. It's just very it's it seems like uh I think it's bad enough with existential problems. We don't even have to get into suffering risks to fully appreciate importance of this problem.

Speaker A

It's existential. It is existential.

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