Why Buddhism Is True

Um, he tweeted this: "Unless there is AI regulation or a coordinated slowdown between labs, human extinction in the next few years seems very likely." Um, someone then asks him how likely, and he says, "Seventy percent in the next three years if there isn't regulation or slowdown, although I think regulation slowdown is very possible." Um, to discuss what could prove to be a key tipping point in AI policy and discourse, um, I caught up with veteran science writer Robert Wright.

Wright has written a number of excellent books, including The Moral Animal, which I read as a teenager, um, and Why Buddhism Is True.

His latest book on AI is called The God Test.

It feels that way, at least like a preliminary tipping point.

Robert is a journalist and bestselling author whose work explores evolutionary psychology, philosophy, religion, and more.

He's best known for his books The Moral Animal, Nonzero: The Evolution of God, and my personal favorite, Why Buddhism is True, but he has a new book out, and that is the topic of today's conversation.

It's called The God Test, subtitled Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning.

This is a book about how AI is going to impact the future of everything we care about.

Yeah.

And you've written many books.

Um, Nonzero, Why Buddhism is True, which I think I, I gave you a bunch of praise for last time, a book I really like.

Mm-hmm.

It's by Robert Wright.

It's called, Why Buddhism is True.

And the whole book is science.

Like he really is like clinging on super duper hard to science through the whole thing.