PickVidsBest AI safety, AGI & impact Videos
The 77 AI safety, AGI & impact videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 8 introductory, 14 intermediate, 55 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Lex Fridman, Robert Miles AI Safety , TED.
Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris
Sam Harris argues in a TED talk that we will build superhuman AI and have not grappled with the risk of creating something that may treat us the way we treat ants.
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368
A three-hour Lex Fridman podcast conversation with AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky about the dangers of superintelligent AI and his argument that it could end human civilization.
Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75
Lex Fridman interviews Marcus Hutter of DeepMind about universal artificial intelligence, AIXI, Kolmogorov complexity, Solomonoff induction and the idea of intelligence as compression.
How We Prevent the AI’s from Killing us with Paul Christiano
A Bankless podcast interview with Paul Christiano of the Alignment Research Center on the AI alignment problem and possible solutions.
The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future
A Kurzgesagt animation on longtermism, arguing that because the future could hold trillions of people, our actions' effect on future generations may be what matters most.
MICRO DRONES KILLER ARMS ROBOTS - AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - WARNING !!
A dramatized fictional video of micro drones with facial recognition and swarm AI used as autonomous killer weapons.
Intelligence is not Enough | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2023
Bryan Cantrill's Monktoberfest 2023 talk takes on AI doomerism, weighing the theoretical existential risks against the reality on the ground.
Multi-Agent Hide and Seek
OpenAI's short demo of agents playing hide-and-seek in a simulated environment.
Human AI is Decades Away, But We Need to Start the Debate Now | Demis Hassabis | Google Zeitgeist
Demis Hassabis of DeepMind speaks at Google Zeitgeist, saying human-level AI is decades away but the debate should start now.
We Were Right! Real Inner Misalignment
Robert Miles covers a paper where researchers ran real versions of his earlier mesa-optimizer thought experiments.
Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show
Jon Stewart on The Daily Show satirizes the AI industry's promises of a better future while it builds technology to replace workers.
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
Dwarkesh Patel interviews Richard Sutton, reinforcement learning pioneer, Turing Award winner and author of The Bitter Lesson.
Geoff Hinton: On Radiology
A one-minute clip from a 2016 Toronto conference in which Geoff Hinton comments on deep learning and radiology.
Horror Short Film “Slaughterbots” | ALTER
Slaughterbots, a short dystopian film in which swarms of small autonomous drones are programmed to kill targets matching a profile.
The Inside Story of ChatGPT’s Astonishing Potential | Greg Brockman | TED
OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman explains the design principles behind ChatGPT and demos unreleased plug-ins at TED 2023.
A Cheeky Pint with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Stripe's John Collison interviews Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about growth to around $5 billion ARR, model economics, agentic AI and vitalism.
Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367
Lex Fridman's long interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the future of AI.
AI Succession
A short pre-recorded talk by Rich Sutton for the World AI Conference in Shanghai arguing that succession from humanity to AI is inevitable.
Sam Altman & OpenAI | 2023 Hawking Fellow | Cambridge Union
Sam Altman accepts the 2023 Hawking Fellowship at the Cambridge Union and speaks about OpenAI, AGI and AI safety, recorded November 1, 2023.
Elon Musk and Y Combinator President on Thinking for the Future - FULL CONVERSATION
A Vanity Fair Summit conversation between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC
A 2019 extended interview in which Connie Loizos talks with Sam Altman about his work, OpenAI's capped-profit structure, its mission toward safe artificial general intelligence, and criticisms the organization faces.
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
Dwarkesh Patel interviews OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever on time to AGI, what comes after generative models, data limits, alignment, and competing with Google.
StrictlyVC in conversation with Sam Altman, part two (OpenAI)
Part two of a StrictlyVC interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, focused on AI.
Jack Ma and Elon Musk hold debate in Shanghai
Alibaba's Jack Ma and Tesla's Elon Musk debate artificial intelligence on stage in Shanghai in 2019.