Podcast Ahoy! Monday, Aug 28 2006
friendly ai and risks and transhumanism 4:53 am
Did a podcast recently with Jonas Lamais of Singularity University. Here it is. It’s my first experience doing a podcast ever, so it’s definitely not perfect, but not horrible. Hopefully I will get better at this sort of thing as time goes on.
Topics discussed are the Lifeboat Foundation, existential risk, this blog, and the burgeoning Bay Area Transhumanist movement.
I answered the question about AI timeframes incorrectly. I was asked when it is important to start programming AIs for safety, and I misinterpreted that as a question about when human-equivalent AI would come about. It’s important to be thinking about how to program AIs for safety now, not later.

August 28th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
In the podcast, you mention the methuselah 500, but it is the methuselah 300.
Other than that it was a great podcast!
September 1st, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Sounds like you’ve been doing this forever, way to go
September 10th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
In my little British head, before you spoke, you were meant to sound something like Will Wheaton. You don’t! Stupid interwebs!
Seriously though, it will be interesting to see how the Singularity University develops.