THE VIDEO SHELF · ai existential risk
Munk Debate on Artificial Intelligence | Bengio & Tegmark vs. Mitchell & LeCun
A Munk Debate on the proposition that AI research and development poses an existential threat. Yoshua Bengio and Max Tegmark argue for it, and Melanie Mitchell and Yann LeCun argue against.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a good debate with leading figures on both sides of the AI existential risk question.
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- Creator / channel
- Policy-Relevant Science & Technology
- Topic
- ai existential risk
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2023
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From the original HN conversations
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Do you seriously think that the people that brought you pfas + other plethora of toxins and their subsequent effects across many systems really care about the dangers of AI? Please, enjoy it while it lasts. What they really need is big fat alien dick …
caliaihere on Hacker News · 2023-06
In The Darwinian argument for worrying about AIAll of the talk about "AI Safety" and "Effective Altruism" cannot be dismissed as BS. As technology has become more and more integrated into the very fabric of society, some dangers are very real unless we explicitly use Human standards of Morals/Ethics to regulate them. …
rramadass on Hacker News · 2023-11
In Sam Altman Exposes the Charade of AI Accountability
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