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Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality | Lex Fridman Podcast #321
and I have a chapter in the book about the perils
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of advanced AI, spreading misinformation
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on social networks is one of them,
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but there are many others.
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What's the one that worries you the most
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that we should think about to try to avoid?
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Well, it's hard to choose.
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We do have the nuclear power that evolved
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when I was a child, I remember,
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and we would actually do these drills against a nuclear war.
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We'd get under our desks and put our hands behind our heads
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to protect us from a nuclear war.
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Seems to work, we're still around, so.
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You're protected.
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But that's still a concern.
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And there are key dangerous situations
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that can take place in biology.
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Someone could create a virus that's very,
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I mean, we have viruses that are hard to spread,
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and they can be very dangerous,
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and we have viruses that are easy to spread,
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but they're not so dangerous.
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Somebody could create something
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that would be very easy to spread and very dangerous,
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and be very hard to stop.
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It could be something that would spread
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without people noticing, because people could get it,
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they'd have no symptoms, and then everybody would get it,
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and then symptoms would occur maybe a month later.
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So I mean, and that actually doesn't occur normally,
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because if we were to have a problem with that,
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we wouldn't exist.
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So the fact that humans exist means that we don't have
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viruses that can spread easily and kill us,
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because otherwise we wouldn't exist.
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Yeah, viruses don't wanna do that.
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They want to spread and keep the host alive somewhat.
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So you can describe various dangers with biology.
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Also nanotechnology, which we actually haven't experienced
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yet, but there are people that are creating nanotechnology,
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and I describe that in the book.
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Now you're excited by the possibilities of nanotechnology,
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of nanobots, of being able to do things inside our body,
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inside our mind, that's going to help.
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What's exciting, what's terrifying about nanobots?
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What's exciting is that that's a way to communicate
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with our neocortex, because each neocortex is pretty small
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and you need a small entity that can actually get in there
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and establish a communication channel.
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And that's gonna really be necessary to connect our brains
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to AI within ourselves, because otherwise it would be hard
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for us to compete with it.
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In a high bandwidth way.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And that's key, actually, because a lot of the things
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like Neuralink are really not high bandwidth yet.
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So nanobots is the way you achieve high bandwidth.
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How much intelligence would those nanobots have?
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Yeah, they don't need a lot, just enough to basically
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establish a communication channel to one nanobot.
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So it's primarily about communication.
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Yeah.
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Between external computing devices
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and our biological thinking machine.
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What worries you about nanobots?
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Is it similar to with the viruses?
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Well, I mean, it's the great goo challenge.
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Yes.
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If you had a nanobot that wanted to create
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any kind of entity and repeat itself,
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and was able to operate in a natural environment,
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it could turn everything into that entity
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and basically destroy all biological life.
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So you mentioned nuclear weapons.
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Yeah.
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I'd love to hear your opinion about the 21st century
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and whether you think we might destroy ourselves.
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And maybe your opinion, if it has changed
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by looking at what's going on in Ukraine,
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that we could have a hot war with nuclear powers involved
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and the tensions building and the seeming forgetting
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of how terrifying and destructive nuclear weapons are.
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Do you think humans might destroy ourselves
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in the 21st century, and if we do, how?
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And how do we avoid it?
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I don't think that's gonna happen
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despite the terrors of that war.
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It is a possibility, but I mean, I don't.
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It's unlikely in your mind.
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Yeah, even with the tensions we've had
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with this one nuclear power plant that's been taken over,
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it's very tense, but I don't actually see a lot of people
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worrying that that's gonna happen.
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I think we'll avoid that.
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We had two nuclear bombs go off in 45,
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so now we're 77 years later.
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Yeah, we're doing pretty good.
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We've never had another one go off through anger.
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People forget the lessons of history.
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Well, yeah, I mean, I am worried about it.
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