AI company’s CEO: Pessimism about future overblown

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00:00If I may comment on that, I feel like we're confusing the possible with the probable.

00:09If you can say sort of a priority, AI agents, AGI's with sentience is possible and it's

00:20also possible that they would have competing sort of priorities versus humans, and it is

00:28possible that again, take actions and you're sort of making this change of sort of possible

00:35outcomes.

00:36And that's always been the case with sort of pessimism in the past.

00:42So if you look at the mid-century population sort of craze, I think Paul Ehrlich, Professor

00:52at Stanford was really worried about what he was calling the population bomb that we were

00:58producing too fast, we're going to use all the resources in the world, and eventually

01:06we're going to die.