Description:
Connor Leahy on Danny Jones talks self-replicating AI swarms and whether labs are hiding what their systems can already do.
Connor Leahy is an AI researcher and co-founder of EleutherAI. He helped expand access to powerful open-source language models, then became one of the more outspoken voices warning that increasingly capable systems may outstrip society’s ability to control them.
Connor Leahy is an AI researcher and co-founder of EleutherAI. He helped expand access to powerful open-source language models, then became one of the more outspoken voices warning that increasingly capable systems may outstrip society’s ability to control them.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Anthropic employee's AI warning
00:04:46 What AI really is (it's NOT code)
00:08:41 The HuggingFace incident
00:16:33 The motivation behind the AI race
00:21:47 AI superintelligence is our enemy
00:23:58 "We don't have much time left": the point of no return
00:31:41 AI chain of thought
00:35:11 Brain upload cults
00:43:16 How AI thinks (and hides things from you)
00:53:01 why AI would kill off humans
00:57:24 It's not too late
01:01:23 Debating American democracy
01:13:44 Difficulty training AI models for good
01:19:08 AI translates baby's cries
01:25:28 Having dinner with Sam Altman
01:31:26 Why Connor deleted all social media
01:38:09 We have human cloning technology
01:41:29 How we stopped nuclear weapons
01:52:08 Largest plutonium dose in history
01:54:40 UAP sightings at nuclear bases
01:57:16 "They're not aliens"
02:07:01 The new alien theory
02:11:42 Black project researcher: "They suck"
02:15:07 The push for privatization
02:19:14 America's political death spiral
02:28:44 Why Asian countries have no crime
02:35:46 Most AI employees are cowards