https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/ian-morris-deep-history-intelligence-explosion/
Host Rob Wiblin speaks with repeat guest Ian Morris about what big-picture history says about the likely impact of machine intelligence.
They cover:
- Some crazy anomalies in the historical record of civilisational progress
- Whether we should think about technology from an evolutionary perspective
- Whether we ought to expect war to make a resurgence or continue dying out
- Why we can’t end up living like The Jetsons
- Whether stagnation or cyclical recurring futures seem very plausible
- What it means that the rate of increase in the economy has been increasing
- Whether violence is likely between humans and powerful AI systems
- The most likely reasons for Rob and Ian to be really wrong about all of this
- How professional historians react to this sort of talk
- The future of Ian’s work
- Plenty more