PickVidsBest AI safety, AGI & impact Videos
The 77 AI safety, AGI & impact videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 8 introductory, 14 intermediate, 55 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Lex Fridman, Robert Miles AI Safety , TED.
What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us
CGP Grey's video "Humans Need Not Apply" argues that automation will make a large part of the workforce economically obsolete, much as engines did for horses.
Why Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence
Robert Miles explains instrumental convergence: why an AGI with almost any goal would tend to pursue sub-goals like self-preservation and resource acquisition.
Veritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
Veritasium's Derek Muller gives a Perimeter Institute livestream on how AI might change teaching and learning.
Intelligence and Stupidity: The Orthogonality Thesis
Robert Miles explains the orthogonality thesis: how an agent can be highly intelligent while pursuing goals that seem stupid or alien to humans.
We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci
Technosociologist Zeynep Tufekci argues that the machine-learning systems used to serve ads also decide what political and social information people see.
Intro to AI Safety, Remastered
Robert Miles gives a remastered introduction to AI safety, adapted from a talk in London.
Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4
Sebastien Bubeck presents the Sparks of AGI paper at MIT, showing early experiments with GPT-4 across many domains and asking whether artificial intelligence has arrived.
Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?
Robert Miles asks whether corporations can be thought of as artificial general superintelligences and how far the analogy holds.
The A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin of the Center for Humane Technology present why current AI capabilities pose catastrophic societal risks.
Slaughterbots
Slaughterbots is a fictional short film, backed by Stuart Russell, depicting swarms of cheap autonomous drones that use facial recognition to assassinate targets.
34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!
Charles Stross's 34C3 talk on how science fiction gets the future wrong.
Is AI Safety a Pascal's Mugging?
Robert Miles examines whether the case for AI safety is a Pascal's mugging, a tiny probability of an enormous payoff.
Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUST
Slaughterbots is a short sci-fi film in which swarms of cheap autonomous drones are programmed to kill targets by profile.
Training AI Without Writing A Reward Function, with Reward Modelling
Robert Miles explains reward modelling, in which an AI learns what humans want from their preference comparisons instead of a hand-written reward function.
Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton's 2025 Royal Institution Discourse on what AI has learned from biological intelligence and how it might surpass it.
Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
Lex Fridman's long conversation with Andrej Karpathy on Tesla's self-driving approach, Optimus, neural networks, transformers, AGI and more.
35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine
Joscha Bach's 35C3 talk offers an AI perspective on the soul, covering perception, mental representation, agency, consciousness and selfhood as things that can arise in a computational system like the brain.
GPT-4chan: This is the worst AI ever
Yannic Kilcher explains how he trained a language model on three years of 4chan's /pol/ board and let it post on the site.
Lina Khan – FTC Chair on Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit & AI Oversight | The Daily Show
FTC Chair Lina Khan sits down with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show to discuss the agency's work protecting consumers from unfair business practices.
Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot
Novelist Daniel Suarez warns in a TED talk about autonomous robotic weapons and drones.
Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162
Lex Fridman interviews chip architect Jim Keller about the future of computing, AI, life and consciousness.
John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309
A five-hour Lex Fridman interview with John Carmack covering Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, programming, games and rockets.
I tried using AI. It scared me.
Tom Scott describes trying ChatGPT to fix his Gmail labels and being unsettled by how capable it was.
Deadly Truth of General AI? - Computerphile
A Computerphile video in which Rob Miles warns against assuming a general AI will think like a human.