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Hello, experiment listeners.

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Julie Longoria here. It's

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been a while. I miss you guys. I wanted

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to give you a little update on

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what I've been working on. Today,

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we're giving you a preview of

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a four-part series that just came out

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on a show called Unexplainable.

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I hope you'll listen to

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this trailer and then go

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subscribe to Unexplainable, wherever

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you get podcasts. Do

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you mind if I ask you a few

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questions? Sure, if it's correct.

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Yeah, cool. Over the last

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few months, I've been cornering

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some very smart people. To

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ask what I thought was

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a simple question. That's a

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big question. It's hard to

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know how to answer questions

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like that. The question is one,

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I think a lot of us have right

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now. Should we be worried

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about artificial intelligence?

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But the answers from the

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greatest minds in AI surprised

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me. I mean, I'll tell, so I'll tell

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you, like, I'll tell you a story. Basically,

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it's a sort of a parable.

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They replied with fantastical tales, as

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if I'd asked them about the

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great mysteries of the universe. So,

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so what does this have to

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do with AI? I'm making it.

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Oh, so very broadly. Like, it

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was like Aesop's fables, AI

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edition. Okay, should I

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start from the top? Suppose

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in the future there's

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an artificial intelligence.

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One guy told a parable of

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a future super intelligent

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AI that could cause

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an apocalypse. Let's give

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this super intelligent

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AI a simple goal.

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Produce, paper clips. Be a

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paper clip? And then there was

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another woman. So. The octopus thought

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experiment goes like this. She imagined

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AI underwater. We posit this octopus.

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to be mischievous as well. Still,

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other people told a story that

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sounded like it was out of

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the Bible. She seems likely to

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drown. What should you do? Imagining

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AI as a Savior. People wanting

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to be told what to do

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by some abstract force that they

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can't interact with? Like a God?

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Yeah, like a God. I

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haven't been sure what to make

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of these new robots that have

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entered our lives. And all these

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amazing stories from the greatest minds

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in AI made me wonder... Maybe

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even these people don't know what

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to think. Do you ever worry

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that in testing this you're sort

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of teaching the models to do

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this kind of nefarious stuff? Um...

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Yes. Humans are just suckers for

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anything that looks human. Robots just

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take advantage of that direct. The

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disagreements in the field of AI

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over what we should worry about.

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Like, you know, look over there,

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Terminator, don't, you know, don't look

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over here, racism. Have ended up

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feeling like a meditation. Less about

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how to build the best robots

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on Elon Musk's Mars. More about

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how to be a good human

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on Earth. I'm

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Joy Langoria,

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Good Robot,

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a four-part

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series from

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Unexplainable. Listen

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in the

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Unexplainable Feed

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wherever you

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get podcasts.

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I'm gonna go to

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sleep.