Former Singularity Institute President: PauseAI Is Making AI Doom WORSE

Michael Vassar used to work closely with Eliezer Yudkowsky as President of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the organization that later became the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI).

Even though his P(Doom) is in the tens of percents by 2050, he says the people trying to pause AI are "bad people”. He hopes this episode convinces me to stop being a fearmonger… but I claim the general public needs to hurry up and get more scared.

All aboard the Doom Train! 🚂

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GbFng6htaQ

Timestamps

00:00:00 — Cold Open

00:01:26 — Introducing Michael Vassar

00:02:39 — Shorting Boeing at the Start of COVID

00:05:41 — What's Your P(Doom)™?

00:08:11 — The Magic Dial Thought Experiment

00:10:25 — "A Treaty Between Demis and Dario"

00:13:33 — AI CEOs 20 Years Ago