Ex-OpenAI CEO Says AI Labs Are Making a HUGE Mistake — Emmett Shear

Ex-Twitch Founder and OpenAI Interim CEO Emmett Shear is one of the rare established tech leaders to lend his name and credibility to Eliezer Yudkowsky’s warnings about AI existential risk.

Even though he disagrees on some points, he chose to endorse the new book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies:

“Soares and Yudkowsky lay out, in plain and easy-to-follow terms, why our current path toward ever-more-powerful AIs is extremely dangerous.”

In this interview from the IABED launch party, we dive into Emmett’s endorsement, why the current path is so dangerous, and what he hopes to achieve by taking a different approach at his new startup, Softmax.

Watch the full IABED livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRITRf-jH1g

Watch my reaction to Emmett’s talk about Softmax to see why I’m not convinced his preferred alignment track is likely to work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBN1E1fvh2g

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