Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-06-02
Books mentioned on #431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and author of a new book titled AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Yahoo Finance: https://yahoofinance.
Lex Fridman recommended Dune by Frank Herbert, and discussed Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a chilling dystopian masterpiece that envisions a technologically advanced future society sustained by pharmacological distraction, engineered conformity, and the systematic eradication of deep human emotion and critical thought.
Discussed“things like "Brave New World", where, you know, the squirrels are fed dopamine and they're all like doing some kind of fun activity and sort of the fire, the soul of humanity is lost because of the drug that's fed to it.”
Where to get it
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Dune
Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction masterpiece Dune is widely celebrated as an epic space opera exploring ecology, religion, and political power on a desert planet.
Recommended“And now let me leave you with some words from Frank Herbert in "Dune".”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“The following is a conversation with Roman Yampolskiy, an AI safety and security researcher and author of a new book titled "AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable".”
“So one of the chapters in my new book is about unpredictability.”
“Now, let me leave you with some words from Frank Herbert in 'Dune': 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.”