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.
“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
Victoria Warmerdam's Oscar-winning Dutch short film in which a woman fails a series of Captcha tests and is plunged into a strange new reality.
Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim
Bloomberg Technology interviews Google engineer Blake Lemoine about the experiments that led him to believe LaMDA was sentient and why he was placed on administrative leave.
Avoiding Negative Side Effects: Concrete Problems in AI Safety part 1
Robert Miles introduces the first of several videos on the paper 'Concrete Problems in AI Safety', focusing on how AI systems can cause accidental negative side effects.
We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
Brandon Sanderson's keynote on AI-generated art, arguing that the artistic process and the journey matter more than the finished product.
Munk Debate on Artificial Intelligence | Bengio & Tegmark vs. Mitchell & LeCun
A Munk Debate on the proposition that AI research and development poses an existential threat.
Andrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity
Andrew Ng speaks at the Stanford MSx Future Forum about how AI is transforming industry after industry, comparing its impact to electricity.
AI "Stop Button" Problem - Computerphile
Rob Miles explains on Computerphile why implementing an off switch for a general AI is hard.
Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - Computerphile
Rob Miles explains for Computerphile why simple rule sets like Asimov's Three Laws cannot make robots and AI safe.
10 Reasons to Ignore AI Safety
Robert Miles goes through ten common reasons people give for dismissing AI safety, adapted from Stuart Russell's list, and answers each one.
Slaughterbots
An 8-minute fictional short film, made by campaigners for a ban on autonomous weapons, depicting swarms of cheap AI-guided micro-drones used to kill targeted people.
🏆Award Winning🏆 CGI 3D Animated Short Film: "LAST DAY OF WAR" by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
Last Day of War is an award-winning CGI animated short by Dima Fedotov in which automated machines keep following orders and prepare a bomber after all humans are dead.
Geoffrey Hinton in conversation with Fei-Fei Li — Responsible AI development
A 2023 University of Toronto conversation between Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li on responsible AI development.
AI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs - Chris Stucchio | Crunch 2018
Chris Stucchio presents the ethical principles behind algorithmic decision making and shows with examples from lending, criminology and education that they cannot all be satisfied at once.
Daniel Schmachtenberger on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #027 - On Avoiding Apocalypses
A long conversation between Eric Weinstein and Daniel Schmachtenberger on whether humanity can flourish long term on a single planet, introducing the Game A versus Game B framing.
How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education | Sal Khan | TED
Sal Khan of Khan Academy gives a TED talk on how AI could transform education, with a personal tutor for every student and a teaching assistant for every teacher.
OpenAI's GPT-4 Discussion with Red Teamer Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg
A podcast episode in which GPT-4 red teamer Nathan Labenz describes using the model before release, finding it human-level but not human-like, and discussing its weaknesses and worrying capabilities.
Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI
A 42-minute CBS interview with Geoffrey Hinton at the Vector Institute in 2023, covering the history of neural networks and the present and future of AI.
ChatGPT with Rob Miles - Computerphile
Computerphile interviews AI safety researcher Rob Miles about ChatGPT: how it was trained with human feedback, why it tends to produce confident nonsense, and where it may or may not be dangerous.
AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway
Physicist and YouTuber Angela Collier argues in this hour-long video that AI as commonly described does not really exist.
Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371
Lex Fridman interviews MIT physicist Max Tegmark, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, about the case for pausing giant AI experiments and the risks of advanced AI.
A CGI 3D Short Film: "Dead Hand: FortressFortress/Крепость" - by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
A 3-minute CGI animated sci-fi short by Dima Fedotov.
Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk
A roughly 2.5-hour Joe Rogan conversation with Elon Musk covering AI, simulation theory, climate, his companies and his mindset.
The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century
A speculative-fiction video by Tom Scott, framed as coming from a future, about an AI called Earworm that enforces copyright so aggressively that humanity ends up forgetting a century of pop culture.
Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416
Lex Fridman's long podcast interview with Yann LeCun on Meta AI, open source, the limits of LLMs, AGI and the future of AI.