AI is here to stay, but at what cost? Connor Leahy is the CEO of Conjecture, a mission-driven organization that’s trying to make the future of AI go as well as it possibly can.
He is also a Co-Founder of EleutherAI, an open-source AI research non-profit lab. In today’s episode, Connor and David cover: 1) The intuitive arguments behind the AI Safety debate
2) The two defining categories of ways AI could end all of humanity
3) The major players in the race towards AGI, and why they all seem to be ideologically motivated, rather than financially motivated
4) Why the progress of AI power is based on TWO exponential curves
5) Why Connor thinks government regulation is the easiest and most effective way of buying us time