Robot Sociopaths: Playing Devil’s Advocate with Steven Pinker on the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence

Should you be afraid of the robot apocalypse? (I don’t mean AI taking our jobs, I mean AI hurting or enslaving us.) Steven Pinker has a cool little video helping to assuage concerns about the dangers of advanced AI. He even gets in a little dig about “alpha males” being the ones who fear it most. He probably has a point. But does he make the case?

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