• 253 - Guest: Seth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risks Institute, part 1

  • Apr 21 2025
  • Duración: 32 m
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253 - Guest: Seth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risks Institute, part 1

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    We're talking about catastrophic risks, something that can be depressing for people who haven’t confronted these things before, and so I have had to be careful in talking about those with most audiences. Yet the paradox is that the more you do look at those risks, the more that effect fades, and that’s a good thing, because my guest today is someone who takes on the onerous task of thinking about and doing something about those risks every day. Seth Baum is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Global Catastrophic Risks Institute in New York, which has tackled the biggest of big problems since 2011. He is also a research affiliate at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. He’s authored papers on pandemics, nuclear winter, and notably for our show, AI.

    We talk about how it feels to work on existential threats every day, AI as a horizontal risk as well as a vertical one, near-term value versus long-term value, AI being used to change the decisions of populations or voting blocs, and AI as a dual-use technology.

    All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.

    Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
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