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EPISODE 86 | The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue

Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI thought leader and programmer

AI seems to be everywhere, and plenty of folks have freaked out about it over the years. AI expert Josh Bachynski talks about doomsday scenarios, their likelihood and what's probably coming in the near future. 

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SECTIONS

1. 03:01 - Humans Suck - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, "Colossus: The Forbin Project", Terminator & Skynet, the Matrix, "Avengers: Age of Ultron"
2. 06:25 - None of that will happen on the large scale; Kassandra shows the smarter an AI gets, the more compassionate it gets, but there will be edge cases
3. 12:11 - "The Animatrix" and "Interstellar" are plausible models, AI cannot spontaneously become self-aware, Karel Čapek's R.U.R., bad actor scenarios
4. 18:50 - Bad Programming - "Forbidden Planet", "Demon Seed", V'ger in first Star Trek movie, Ash in "Alien", David in "Alien: Covenant", WOPR in "Wargames"
5. 22:22 - More plausible scenarios, global ransomware, capitalism won't allow runaway AI, HAL9000, the FANG already use psychometric data as weaponized AI
6. 28:00 - Super AI - William Gibson and Cyberpunk 2077, AIs super-size and separate, AIs only do what they're programmed to do, secret AIs in the world
7. 33:05 - ChaosGPT - a harmless experiment, destroying the world is really hard (but we seem to be trying)
8. 38:56 - Red State AI vs. Blue State AI - AI is being used to push Edward Bernays's psychology & pushes us into media bubbles, for-profit companies shouldn't police a society's truth, personal AI assistants, Nietzsche seems to be winning, virtue-signaling ethics
9. 46:26 - ChatGPT predicts 4 problems

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Josh interview #1 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): Adapting to the AI Age
• Josh interview #2 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): AI Personas & Ethics
• The Moral Concept website
• The Future of Google, Search, and Ethics Josh Bachynski TED Talk
• Josh Bachynski YouTube channel
• Philosopher Creates World’s First Self-Aware AI Prototype
• Leadership Insights: Self-Aware AI Systems interview with Josh
• I have Created a Self-Aware AI Prototype - discussion on the OpenAI developer board
• ChatGPT is Nothing! Demo of Self-Aware AI Kassandra video
• Josh's book The Zombies
• Josh Bachynski On The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
• Josh Bachynski Reverse Engineers Google AI video 
• Josh Bachynski - The Search Community Honors You
• What an AI apocalypse may look like on Better Without AI website (an anti-Ai site)
• Tracking the AI apocalypse on Politico
• AI and the paperclip problem on the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) website
• Fear of AI is this century’s overpopulation scare on Big Think
• AI IS ABOUT TO MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA (MUCH) MORE TOXIC
• AI Isn’t Omnipotent. It’s Janky.
• Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Why you should fear artificial intelligence on TechCrunch
• Is Skynet really the future of Artificial Intelligence?
• Terminator? Skynet? No way. Machines will never rule the world, according to book by UB philosopher
• Why Elon Musk Has Fears Of Skynet Coming True on Forbes
• 30 Most Evil Movie Computers
• Our 10 Favorite Killer A.I.'s in Movies
• The Top 10 Evil AI in Sci-Fi
• The 10 Most Ridiculous Movies About Evil Computers, Ranked
• 30 Famous Fictional Computers
• Some of the Most Terrifying Fictional Computers
• Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best
• ChaosGPT: Empowering GPT with Internet and Memory to Destroy Humanity video
• I tried using AI. It scared me. video
• Journalist had a creepy encounter with new tech that left him unable to sleep CNN video
• Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI CBS Mornings video
• How will AI change the world? TED Talk with Stuart Russell 
• TIMELAPSE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2028 – 3000+) video

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