Monday, February 16, 2026

A skeptical approach to AI (Video - 50mn)

   I personally have a rather positive approach to AI. But here's below the other side of the coin. Anthony Aguirre explains why the race toward AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) may be fundamentally misaligned with human interests. And he may have a point. At the very least, we should progress carefully instead of investing blindly into a technology which negative aspects may far outweigh the positive ones. 

00:00 — Why AGI may be against human interests

03:50 — AI tool vs AGI: autonomy changes everything 

07:20 — “Why build something that can do everything a human can do?”  

12:40 — Autonomy is a bug, not a feature  

14:10 — Does AI alignment exist?  

15:40 — Digital copy after death: “It would look like you… but it wouldn’t be you” 

17:00 — Hinton’s idea: humans as the “second” intelligence  

19:50 — The next 5–10 years: loss of control? 

21:40 — Progress vs hype  

25:40 — Consciousness: no definition, but huge consequences  

29:50 — Free will, determinism, and physics  

41:30 — Aguirre’s framework lecture: entropy + control problem

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pp1P-bgjaQ

 

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A skeptical approach to AI (Video - 50mn)

   I personally have a rather positive approach to AI. But here's below the other side of the coin.  Anthony Aguirre explains why the ra...