Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2024-06 to 2025-10.
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He contends that creating a perfectly safe superintelligent AI is impossible because it is equivalent to the impossible task of creating a perpetual safety machine.
“the problem of controlling AI or super intelligence in my opinion is like a problem of creating a Perpetual safety Machine by analogy with perpetual motion machine is impossible”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2024 · 1 episode · 970K views on this topicInternational cooperation and supervised containment of AI development are necessary to prevent global existential catastrophe.
“we are putting the chips that can be used to build the more powerful AIs into locations where they where their uses are supervised.”
Chris Williamson · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 307K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.