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> AI is "completely inaccessible to experiment given our current technology"?

No, that’s not what the article/talk said. It said AI _risk_ is inaccessible (as the poster you’re replying to correctly includes in their quote). The point in the original talk is clear if you read it; that everyone coming up with their own pet theories for how superintelligent AI could destroy us as a species is building their theory on speculation on top of speculation.

Note that the talk is from 2016, before transformers and LLMs were invented. Though I would argue that the vast majority of it, including the parts we’re discussing here, are still completely valid.



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