Jaan Tallinn - Strong AI: Risk, Religion & Cognitive Biases
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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2012 · Science & Technology
Jaan Tallinn - AI, Religion, Playing God, Preferences, Timescales, Cognitive Biases Jaan Tallinn is one of the programmers behind Kazaa and a founding engineer of Skype. He is also a partner in Ambient Sound Investments as well as a member of the Estonian President's Academic Advisory Board. He describes himself as singularitarian/hacker/investor/physicist (in that order). In recent years Jaan has found himself closely following and occasionally supporting the work that SIAI and FHI are doing. He agrees with Kurzweil in that the topic of Singularity can be extremely counterintuitive to general public, and has tried to address this problem in a few public presentations at various venues. 0:00 Creating Strong AI: What do we want? What should we want? 4:15 Religion & the Future 6:11 Transhumanism as a human right 7:13 Openness to new technology 8:28 The Timescale of Strong AI 11:32 Technological Advance: Are we playing God? 13:12 Cognitive biases 14:57 Common beliefs about Human Level AI
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