Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society, how A.I. companies are caught in a race to deploy as quickly as possible without adequate safety measures, and what it would mean to upgrade our institutions to a post-A.I. world.

This presentation is from a private gathering in San Francisco on March 9th, 2023 with leading technologists and decision-makers with the ability to influence the future of large-language model A.I.s. This presentation was given before the launch of GPT-4.

We encourage viewers to consider calling their political representatives to advocate for holding hearings on AI risk and creating adequate guardrails.

For the podcast version, please visit: https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/th…

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Citations:

2022 Expert Survey on Progress in AI: https://aiimpacts.org/2022-expert-sur…

Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06956

High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11…

Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11…

Sit Up Straight: Wi-Fi Signals Can Be Used to Detect Your Body Position: https://www.pcmag.com/news/sit-up-str…

They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam: https://www.washingtonpost.com/techno…

Theory of Mind Emerges in Artificial Intelligence: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles…

Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682

Is GPT-3 all you need for low-data discovery in chemistry? https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/…

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11610

Forecasting: AI solving competition-level mathematics with 80%+ accuracy: http://bounded-regret.ghost.io/ai-for…

ChatGPT reaching 100M users compared with other major tech companies: https://twitter.com/kylelf_/status/16…

Snap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/techno…

Percent of large-scale AI results coming from academia: https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1…

How Satya Nadella describes the pace at which the company is releasing AI: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/op…

The Day After film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day…

China’s view on chatbots:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/03/…

Facebook’s LLM leaks online:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwqg…

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