Coherent arguments about the existential risk of Artificial Intelligence

1st January 2019

I wanted to call this "Steven Pinker was sent by Skynet to fool us!" but the joke might have backfired

In an October 2018 interview the Harvard academic and author Steven Pinker said that:

• he finds arguments about the existential threat of AI to be incoherent
• and that we should 'trust the engineers'.

When asked about a tweet by Elon Musk about the difference between narrow AI and AGI, Steven Pinker waved it away, implied that Elon Musk is a hot-head and said that this was not the last time that "Elon Musk has fired off an intemperate tweet".

Although that may be true, it doesn't prove Pinker's point about AI not being worth spending too much time worrying about, so this short animated video examines Pinker's assertions, coolly.

TODO: video review

TODO: slides contra Pinker

TODO: commentary contra Pinker