Videopodcast: Droht die KI-Apokalypse? | Lanz + Precht, Folge 265

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Good morning, Richard. Good morning, Markus. Richard, I'd like to start in a slightly unusual way and read you two quotes and place them at the beginning of our conversation, so to speak. The first one goes like this. It is certainly possible to develop control measures that can eliminate the fear of a sudden,

complete annihilation, which we are currently heading towards. Second sentence: My biggest concern is that we are causing significant damage to the world . By "we" I mean the entire field, the technology, and the industry. What's interesting about these two sentences is... One of the sentences comes from the physicist and mathematician John von Neumann in 1955

in a famous article entitled Can we Survive Technology? uh, it was written down for the first time and refers to the advent of nuclear weapons. The second sentence comes from Sam Oldmans, the man who's currently on everyone's lips, the CEO of OpenAI, and he said it in a hearing before the US Senate on

May 16, 2023. One sentence is from 1955, the other from 2023. Apocalypse is the connecting element. Richard, why are we humans so susceptible to apocalyptic scenarios? Well , in principle it's not entirely wrong to be afraid of technological developments, but as for this fascination with the apocalypse, you're asking the wrong person, because I don't have it.

[laughter] Well, there are also people who like to watch horror movies or disaster movies, doomsday scenarios and such. You know there's a new word for those kinds of people. I thought you were one of those, you know, we'll occasionally call you a boomer here, right? Yes, there's a nice new word called Doom.