{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"80,000 Hours Podcast","title":"#44 - Paul Christiano on how we'll hand the future off to AI, & solving the alignment problem","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":13911,"description":"Paul Christiano is one of the smartest people I know. After our first session produced such great material, we decided to do a second recording, resulting in our longest interview so far. While challenging at times I can strongly recommend listening - Paul works on AI himself and has a very unusually thought through view of how it will change the world. This is now the top resource I'm going to refer people to if they're interested in positively shaping the development of AI, and want to understand the problem better. Even though I'm familiar with Paul's writing I felt I was learning a great deal and am now in a better position to make a difference to the world.\r\n\r\nA few of the topics we cover are:\r\n\r\n* Why Paul expects AI to transform the world gradually rather than explosively and what that would look like\r\n* Several concrete methods OpenAI is trying to develop to ensure AI systems do what we want even if they become more competent than us\r\n* Why AI systems will probably be granted legal and property rights\r\n* How an advanced AI that doesn't share human goals could still have moral value\r\n* Why machine learning might take over science research from humans before it can do most other tasks\r\n* Which decade we should expect human labour to become obsolete, and how this should affect your savings plan.\r\n\r\nLinks to learn more, summary and full transcript.\r\n\r\nImportant new article: These are the world’s highest impact career paths according to our research\r\n\r\nHere's a situation we all regularly confront: you want to answer a difficult question, but aren't quite smart or informed enough to figure it out for yourself. The good news is you have access to experts who *are* smart enough to figure it out. The bad news is that they disagree.\r\n\r\nIf given plenty of time - and enough arguments, counterarguments and counter-counter-arguments between all the experts - should you eventually be able to figure out which is correct? What if one expert were deliberately trying to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VO1STE7hN95RRg9QdLo4soV2VhhbR9PF5ZZlRhDYcwE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNDAyLzE2ODM1/NDQ1NDAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}