{"id":8200,"date":"2024-08-11T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=8200"},"modified":"2024-08-11T17:48:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T22:48:31","slug":"my-pontificatiest-ai-podcast-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=8200","title":{"rendered":"My pontificatiest AI podcast ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in May, I had the honor (nay, honour) to speak at HowTheLightGetsIn<\/a>, an ideas festival held annually in Hay-on-Wye on the English\/Welsh border. It was my first time in that part of the UK, and I loved it. There was an immense amount of mud due to rain on the festival ground, and many ideas presented at the talks and panels that I vociferously disagreed with (but isn’t that the point?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some point, interviewer Alexis Papazoglou with the Institute for Art and Ideas<\/a> ambushed me while I was trudging through the mud to sit me down for a half-hour interview about AI that I’d only vaguely understood was going to take place, and that interview is now up on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>. I strongly recommend listening at 2x speed: you’ll save yourself fifteen minutes, I’ll sound smarter, my verbal infelicities will be less noticeable, what’s not to like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was totally unprepared and wearing a wrinkled t-shirt, but I dutifully sat in the beautiful chair arranged for me and shot the breeze about AI. The result is actually one of the recorded AI conversations I’m happiest with, the one that might convey the most of my worldview per minute. Topics include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n