#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future

24 September - 1 hour 32 mins
Podcast Series Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris speaks with Ryan Greenblatt about AI misalignment and the risk of losing control of increasingly capable systems. They discuss the Hugging Face incident, the spectrum of concern about AI risk, why companies are racing ahead despite high odds of a, reward hacking, the distinction between alignment and control, the danger of AIs reasoning in "neuralese," alignment faking, how an AI takeover might unfold, and other topics. 

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1 hour 32 mins

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