"You're one of the three godfathers of AI, the most cited scientist on Google Scholar, but I also read that you're an introvert. It begs the question, why have you decided to step out of your introvers..."

"But I also read that you're an introvert and um it begs the question why an introvert would be taking the step out into the public eye to have conversations with the masses about their opinions on AI...."

">> I'm fascinated by the like the cognitive dissonance that emerges when you spend much of your career working on creating these technologies or understanding them and bringing them about and then you..."

"probabilities about risk? Is that how you think about risk is in terms of like probabilities and timelines or >> of course but I have to say something important here. This is a case where previous gen..."

"So a lot of people would rebuttle the the risks here and say this is just another example of change happening and people being uncertain so they predict the worst and then everybody's fine. Why is tha..."

"academia in AI think about the advent and invention of this technology? Is are there kind of an analogy or metaphor that is equivocal to the profoundity of this technology? >> So one analogy that peop..."

"safer and safer though these systems because they're getting more and more feedback from humans. They're being trained more and more to be safe and to not do things that are unproductive to humanity. ..."

"years, seems to there seems to be been a bit of a narrative change in more recent times. Um, why are they doing this anyway? >> That's a good question. I can only relate to my own experience. Why did ..."

"even more because Google and Anthropic are increasingly developing their technologies at a fast rate. Code red. It's funny because the last time I heard the phrase code red in the world of tech was wh..."

">> And I mean there has been attempts to pause. I remember the letter that you signed amongst many other um AI researchers and industry professionals asking for a pause. Was that 2023? >> Yes. >> You ..."

"So, again, is this is this in part wishful thinking to some degree because there's there's certainly not going to be a change in the United States in my view in the coming years. It seems that the pow..."

"change is something you mentioned a second ago, which is job losses. >> Yes. I've heard you say that you believe AI is growing so fast that it could do many human jobs within about 5 years. You said t..."

"So that's for the national security risks that that are coming with the advances in AIS. C in CBRN standing for chemical or chemical weapons. So we already know how to make chemical weapons and there ..."

">> so the AI systems get smarter and smarter if we just imagine any rate of improvement if we just imagine that they improve 10% uh a month from here on out eventually they get to the point where they..."

"that no one really talks about enough. The mental load of remembering everything like meeting notes, timelines, and everything in between until we started using our sponsor's product called Pipe Drive..."

"of all the risks, the existential risks that sit there before you on these cards that you have, but also just generally, is there one that you um that you're most concerned about in the near term? I w..."

"if you press that button the advancements in AI would stop, would you press it? >> AI that is clearly not dangerous. I don't see any reason to stop it. But there are forms of AI that we don't understa..."

"Are are you are you hopeful in your core? Like when you think about the probabilities of a of a good outcome, are you hopeful? I've always been an optimist and looked at the bright side and the way th..."

"to help bridge that gap because a lot of people, you know, when we talk about public advocacy and um maybe bridging that gap to understand the difference would be productive. We should just try to ima..."

">> How old are your children? >> They're in their early 30s. >> Early 30s. But my emotional turning point was with my grandson. He's now four. There's something about our relationship to very young ch..."

">> A lot of people are using it as a therapist. Um so many startups I've as an investor I've seen so many startups pitch to me that they're building the um AI therapy chatpot which is going to help yo..."

"the biggest companies in America and they're all lined up here, what would you say to them? I know some of them listen because I get emails sometimes. I would say step back from your work, talk to eac..."

">> Only shook hand but didn't really talk much with him. >> Do you think much about his incentives or his motivations? >> I don't know about him personally but clearly all the leaders of AI companies ..."

"One is there is a market mechanism to handle risk. It's called insurance. is plausible that we'll see more and more lawsuits uh against the companies that are developing or deploying AI systems that c..."

"All I had to do was brain dump. Imagine if you had someone with you at all times that could take the ideas you have in your head, synthesize them with AI to make them sound better and more grammatical..."

"back to my fear that the only way people will pay attention is when something bad goes wrong. It's I mean I just just to be completely honest, I just can't I can't imagine the incentive balance switch..."

"powerful. regulators for example in in Europe now are starting to force companies to go through each of these things and and and build their own evaluations of risk. What is interesting is also to loo..."

"I'm often asked whether I'm optimistic or pessimistic about the future uh with AI. And my answer is it doesn't really matter if I'm optimistic or pessimistic. What really matters is what I can do, wha..."

"I'd like to say a few more words about that if that's that's okay with you. So, we talked about the early years in the 80s and 90s. Um, in the 2000s is the period where Jeffon Yanuka and I and and oth..."

">> Yes, of course. I should have seen this coming much earlier. It is only when I started thinking about the potential for the the lives of my children and my grandchild that the shift happened. I emo..."

"being in a minority. Have you received a lot of push back from colleagues when you started to speak about the risks of >> I have. >> What does that look like in your world? >> All sorts of comments. U..."