🎥 New Documentary About the Future with AI: Should We Expect the End of the World?

The film "The AI Doc, or How I Became an Apocalyptic Optimist" premiered at the Sundance Festival. The producer is Daniel Kwan, co-creator of the Oscar-winning "Everything Everywhere All at Once."

The film lays out in detail the perspective of the "doomers," who see "strong AI" as a fundamental threat to humanity. As Eliezer Yudkowsky, a pioneer in AI alignment and author of the aptly titled book "If Someone Builds It, Everyone Will Die," puts it: just as humans don’t think about the fate of ants when building a road, AI won't think about humans when improving the world.

AI optimists in the film paint a very different picture. Leaders of AI giants—Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis—are confident that AI will help humanity solve problems that have eluded us for decades: cancer, the climate crisis, shortages of resources and energy.

💡 During filming, Altman was expecting his first child, but he said he didn’t fear "bringing his son into a world with AI." Still, Altman admits: "Children born today will never be smarter than AI"—and that worries him, but it doesn't change reality.

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