He advocates for the prioritization of ethical considerations over profit to prevent the potential misuse of AI by powerful interests.
“The only thing that will save humanity going forward is that this superpower called intelligence is used for ethical reasons is that the corruption that's leading us to where we are today stops.”
The Diary of a CEO · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 5.7M views on this topicIt is essential for the future of AI to integrate conscious agents that are capable of coexisting, cooperating, and mutually supporting human values rather than just serving as transactional tools.
“if an AI were to treat me as a moral agent that it is interested in coexisting this and cooperating with and mutually supporting each other maybe it is I think necessary that the AI thinks that Consciousness is a viable mode of existence and important”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2023 · 1 episode · 785K views on this topicBiological intelligence is fundamentally controllable and poses different risks than those typically associated with digital AGI, as these systems remain tied to the physical substrate provided by res
“even if you do create an incredibly intelligent system in a dish let's say that happens let's say let's say we go completely out there super intelligence in a dish it's still not really going to be able to manage you know against a small Court full of of Le so so these things are controll”
StarTalk · Jun 2024 · 1 episode · 645K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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