Superintelligence: will AI extinguish humanity? With Nate Soares

About this episode

Freddy Gray discusses the potential risks of AI with Nate Soares, exploring how superintelligent AI could pose a threat to humanity.

Freddy Gray is joined by Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, to discuss the risks posed to humanity by AI. Warning that sufficiently intelligent AI may stop following human instructions entirely, Soares tells Freddy what, if anything, could keep AI from spiralling out of control.  Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more. For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts . Contact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Freddy Gray

Guest: Nate Soares

Topics covered

• AI risks
• superintelligence
• humanity
• machine intelligence
• technology
• ethics

Keywords

• AI
• superintelligence
• humanity
• risks
• Machine Intelligence Research Institute
• Nate Soares
• Freddy Gray

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Machine Intelligence Research Institute, The Spectator, Acast

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