Ep. 233 - Should Artificial Intelligence Kill Us All? w/Dr. Sven Nyholm

Parker's Pensées

In episode 233 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Sven Hyholm to discuss the ethics of technology and especially the ethics of artificial intelligence. Grab the book here to support the pod: https://amzn.to/3nCxg5f if you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all the episode as I record them instead of waiting for their release date. Check it out here: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/parkers_pensees If you want to give a one-time gift, you can give at my Paypal: https://paypal.me/ParkersPensees?locale.x=en_US Check out my merchandise at my Teespring store: https://teespring.com/stores/parkers-penses-merch Come talk with the Pensées community on Discord: dsc.gg/parkerspensees Sub to my Substack to read my thoughts on my episodes: https://parknotes.substack.com/ Check out my blog posts: https://parkersettecase.com/ Check out my Parker's Pensées YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbTRurpFP5q4TpDD_P2JDA Check out my other YouTube channel on my frogs and turtles: https://www.youtube.com/c/ParkerSettecase Check me out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/trendsettercase Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parkers_pensees/0:00 - How Did Sven get into AI Ethics? 5:34 - Instrumental vs. Anthropological view of technology? 12:15 - Technological Determinism 22:59 - ChatGPT and Plagiarism 31:10 - What is Technology? 35:02 - Moral Patients, Moral Agents, Machine and Infants 53:47 - Paperclip maximizers 59:34 - The Problem of other minds and AI 1:05:04 - Value Alignment and the Control Problem 1:08:46 - Can we trust a superintelligent AI? 1:15:00 - should we try to make conscious AIs?