12 Ways AI Ends the Human Era
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12 Ways AI Ends the Human Era
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99.9% of every species that ever existed is extinct. This week, we explore Max Tegmark’s twelve AI future scenarios and ask how artificial superintelligence, failed alignment, surveillance, automation, and human self-destruction could bring the human era to an end.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
MIT Explains the 12 Possible Endings for AI | YouTube
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
AI Aftermath Scenarios — Future of Life Institute
What does AI do when no one is watching? | YouTube
Statement on AI Risk — Center for AI Safety
1961 Goldsboro B-52 Crash | Wikipedia
Vasily Arkhipov | Wikipedia
The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis at 60 | National Security Archive
Stanislav Petrov | Wikipedia
1983 Soviet Nuclear False Alarm Incident | Wikipedia
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