About this episode

The episode discusses the ongoing concerns about AI as an existential risk, exploring its history, recent incidents, and public reactions.

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . The idea of AI posing an existential risk to the human race is kind of like the Terminator itself – it just keeps coming back. We'll look at some of the history of that issue, how attitudes towards it have waxed and waned over the years, and recent events where AIs have escaped their containers and the reactions - or lack thereof - to those incidents. What should we take away from this slow-motion train wreck and what should we do about it? All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines! Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

People in this episode

Host: aiandyou

Topics covered

• existential risk
• AI safety
• history of AI
• AI incidents
• public perception of AI
• AI headlines

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HumanCusp Blog

Books & works: Terminator

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