David Duvenaud
Associate professor of computer science, University of Toronto; former alignment evaluations lead, Anthropic
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“I'd say something around 85%. It's pretty tough because the future will not need us. And this is the same position that sort of every animal has ever been in like through prehistory.”
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“Human control over states is actually already very weak. And the reason that states have been treating us so well is because they've needed us. If states don't need us, then how good the states are becomes a life and death matter.”
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“The post AGI world is just going to be extremely alien and if we could avoid crossing that threshold, I think we should. It won't need us and that's just going to be just a much fundamentally worse position than we've ever been in historically.”
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“My like success story for how this all turns out okay is that we improve our ability to coordinate being able to coordinate to say oh we're all going to do X like not build this technology or not deploy it in this way or whatever before humans have basically been marginalized.”
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Ex-Anthropic Insider: Human Extinction Has Quietly Started
In a 15-minute video from the Future of Life Institute, David Duvenaud, a University of Toronto computer science professor and former alignment evaluations lead at Anthropic, argues that AI could leave humans unneeded, so that states, companies and culture stop serving people. Duvenaud says not to build AGI.