Technological inevitability & human agency in the age of AGI | DeepMind's Allan Dafoe
Technological inevitability & human agency in the age of AGI | DeepMind's Allan Dafoe
Technology doesn’t force us to do anything — it merely opens doors. But military and economic competition pushes us through.
That’s how today’s guest Allan Dafoe — director of frontier safety and governance at Google DeepMind — explains one of the deepest patterns in technological history: once a powerful new capability becomes…
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why hasnt this channel run any state of the art conversations?
Can you steer it?
Not any longer, no. We can "talk" about it, but steer? Nope, that time has come and gone.
The amount of non-answers from this guy is hilarious.
When did this interview take place? You mentioned Gemini 1.5 so I assume it was mid 2024
lovely!
First? Wtf
Brilliant talk. Thank you to both of you.
Refreshing in the era of the cult of technology to step back from the ‘breaking news’ cycle to look at what is actually going on.
What is still missing or at least not wholly addressed in this discussion is how we actually and practically empower our existing human collectives to influence these macro trends.
In the absence of such mechanisms it seems fearfully like discussing boat safety engineering while on the sinking titanic.
We still seem to only have the revolt/destroy/rebuild option civilizations have always had to meaningfully turn the ship.