Cognitive neuroscientist Ruben Laukkonen tells Imran Garda that raising AI is a lot like raising a child: it’s not enough to make it intelligent, we also need to teach it human values. The question is how?
Laukkonen believes the answer could be in one of humanity’s most ancient practices — contemplative meditation.
Dr. Ruben Laukkonen joins The InnerView from Barcelona to discuss how he believes we can mitigate the risks of AI, what it means for a machine to be moral, and how the world’s oldest meditation practices could help us build better AI.
00:00 Meet Ruben Laukkonen
01:34 Ruben’s formula
03:09 Buddhism, Contemplative Practices & AI
04:38 Preventing AI from becoming psychopathic
05:30 The AI “paperclip problem”
07:21 Epistemic humility
09:45 On AI using power to achieve goals
14:40 “Are we the baddies?” — Becoming better humans
16:16 Mainstream mindfulness
17:01 Neurophenomenology
21:27 The dark side of contemplative practices and meditation
24:16 What neuroscience says about contemplative practices
Dr. Ruben Laukkonen is a lecturer at Australia’s Southern Cross University, and the author of this Substack: https://substack.com/@rubenlaukkonen
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