We explore AI Risk, the notion that computer intelligence will cross the human level, start compounding exponentially, and, if not trammelled, mulch everything we hold dear into paperclips.  Why aren't Avi and Bugsby more worried about this? References <a href="http://yudkowsky.net/">Eliezer Yudkowsky</a> Public figures who've expressed concern: <a href= "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/07/17/ai-biggest-risk-face-civilisation-elon-musk-says/"> Elon Musk</a>, <a href= "https://www.cnet.com/news/bill-gates-is-worried-about-artificial-intelligence-too/">Bill Gates</a>, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/23/16693894/hillary-clinton-ai-america-totally-unprepared">Hillary Clinton</a> <a href="https://intelligence.org/">Machine Intelligence Research Institute</a> <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a> Nick Bostrom - <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies"> Superintelligence</a> <a href= "http://lcfi.ac.uk/projects/the-value-alignment-problem/">Value alignment problem</a> Hippocratic Oath in <a href= "https://www.computer.org/web/education/code-of-ethics">software</a>/<a href="https://www.asce.org/code-of-ethics/">civil engineering</a> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy">Iron Law of Oligarchy</a> <a href= "http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm">Superintelligence: the idea that eats smart people</a> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem">Principal-agent problem</a> <a href= "http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/10/24/ai-persuasion-experiment-results/"> SSC AI risk persuasion experiment</a> <a href= "http://lesswrong.com/lw/up/shut_up_and_do_the_impossible/">EY AI box escape experiment</a>

Episode 16 - Moral Philosophy

In Chasing The Wind, Avi and Bugsby host a fast-paced, lightly-scripted discussion on topics ranging all across the ideological firmament.  Listen in!