Confronting Plummeting Birth Rates & Banning Superintelligence with Connor Leahy, US Director at ControlAI
About this episode
Connor Leahy discusses the implications of declining birth rates and the potential dangers of superintelligence.
He’s 31, and nobody he knows is having kids. Tech is to blame, but what’s the solution? Today, we're talking to Connor Leahy, US Director at ControlAI. We discuss why plummeting birth rates look eerily similar to what happens when zoo animals stop breeding, how ideas can spread and cause real harm the same way diseases do, and why the safest path with superintelligence might be to ban it outright rather than pretend we already understand it. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about ControlAI, check out their website here
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Host: Modern CTO
Guest: Connor Leahy
Topics covered
- birth rates
- superintelligence
- technology impact
- societal trends
- animal behavior analogy
Keywords
- birth rates
- superintelligence
- ControlAI
- technology
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Organizations: ControlAI
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