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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

By Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that superhuman AI poses an existential threat, not merely a technical challenge. This episode explores the profound difficulty of aligning and controlling an intelligence vastly superior to our own, revealing why its development could be humanity's final act.

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superhuman ai, existential risk, ai alignment

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Best suited to listeners who want a clearer working understanding of superhuman ai, existential risk, ai alignment and better judgment in how they apply it.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky brings a credible and useful lens to superhuman ai, existential risk, ai alignment, with enough subject command to make the book worth hearing.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

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