Eliezer Yudkowsky Tried to “Coup the World”?! — Garrison Lovely, Author of OBSOLETE

Garrison Lovely is an award-winning journalist and author of the highly anticipated book, Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us and How to Stop It. I give it the Doom Debates stamp of approval!

While we’re mostly on the same page about the AI arms race, Garrison and I clash over Eliezer Yudkowsky’s role. He blames Eliezer for kicking off the superintelligence race and refers to his Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV) vision as a “coup on humanity.” But I say it was actually Yud’s attempt to keep humanity in charge.

Can Garrison change my mind?

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ94J4DBRkw

Timestamps

00:00:00 — Cold Open

00:01:05 — Introducing Garrison Lovely

00:04:23 — “Freeze AI” vs. “Pause AI”

00:06:17 — Garrison’s Background at McKinsey

00:10:31 — Should ICE Be Abolished?

00:17:07 — How Garrison Got on the AI Beat

00:22:16 — What’s Your P(Doom)?™