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Nate Soares is an American artificial intelligence author and researcher known for his work on existential risk from AI. In 2014, Soares co-authored a paper that introduced the term AI alignment, the challenge of making increasingly capable AI’s behave as intended. Nate is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California.

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• TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Is This an Exaggeration? 04:31 – What Is Unique About the Threat of AI? 11:28 – What is Superintelligence? 21:25 – From Chess Computers to Murderous Machines 27:52 – What Really Drives AI Systems? 44:29 – Evidence AI Is Already Turning Against Us 56:03 – How We Are Helping AI Take Over 01:01:21 – Why Would AI Seek Power or Control? 01:07:42 – Some Worst-Case AI Scenarios 01:18:38 – What Do We Do About This Now? 01:32:53 – How Has AI Changed in the Last Six Months?

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