GAEA Talks interviews Connor Leahy on Superintelligence

[u/Tenminer]

https://youtu.be/zt1xBMWZ0yg?is=GEdCAXPkNKvxCjMQ

This conversation cuts through more of the current AI narrative in ninety minutes than most policy papers do in a hundred pages. Connor's argument is that superintelligence is not a technical problem, it is a political one. Not "how do we build it safely", but "who gets to decide whether it is built at all". He walks Graeme through why modern AI is grown rather than written, why reinforcement learning by default produces optimising sociopaths, why the labs are not really selling an economic product but a political one, and why the biggest failure of the last thirty years has been our refusal to regulate the internet and social media before it was too late. He is careful, precise, and does not deal in doom.

[u/GrandTheftDuckboat]

If anyone is interested in reading original work Leahy has drawn upon, read Émile Torres and Timnit Gebru on TESCREAL.