AI Risks and Regulatory Challenges

Now Sam Altman called some of the scenarios that people are

envisioning about AI, quote, "So dystopian that they sound like the

plot of

bad science fiction movies," unquote.

He warned against people falling into, quote, "The trap of doomerism,"

unquote. Now you've called AI the most dangerous

thing ever that makes nuclear

weapons look like nothing.

Sam Altman, it sounds like, would suggest that you

are falling into the

trap of doomerism. How would you respond?

Well,

all responsible AI leaders, uh, including Sam

Altman, includ- including Dario Amodei, uh,

they are

telling the world this is very concerning.

The way that gets articulated in terms of potential

negative scenarios, yes, it can get overblown when people act

like all of humanity is at risk in some intimate way.

That is going too far. But say, compared to

cars or planes or drugs, you know,

all things that I think we're pleased that we have

significant regulatory capability to try and keep

people safe, this is more dangerous than any of

those. And so, uh,

you know, there are,

uh, some grim possibilities if we don't, don't maintain control.

And I do think the industry is doing its job to raise the alarm

bell. Uh, but, uh, this idea that if,

if we're judicious, we can minimize these risks,

uh, maybe that's not coming across, particularly because the government

sometimes, you know, goes to the extreme of let's

not have any safeguards or let's completely stop

this. You know, finding that middle ground like we did with

planes and cars and medicines, uh,

that we don't have a lot of sophistication right now.

But I do believe that middle ground exists