Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond

Future of Life Institute Podcast - Un pódcast de Future of Life Institute

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Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss whether AI progress is slowing down or speeding up, AI agents and reasoning, why superintelligence is an ideological goal, open source AI, how technical change leads to regime change, the economics of advanced AI, and much more.    Our conversation often references this essay by Samuel: https://www.secondbest.ca/p/ninety-five-theses-on-ai    Timestamps:  00:00 Is AI plateauing or accelerating?   06:55 How do we get AI agents?   16:12 Do agency and reasoning emerge?   23:57 Compute thresholds in regulation 28:59 Superintelligence as an ideological goal  37:09 General progress vs superintelligence  44:22 Meta and open source AI   49:09 Technological change and regime change  01:03:06 How will governments react to AI?   01:07:50 Will the US nationalize AGI corporations?   01:17:05 Economics of an intelligence explosion   01:31:38 AI cognition vs human cognition   01:48:03 AI and future religions  01:56:40 Is consciousness functional?   02:05:30 AI and children

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