Zak Stein - AI Tutor Apocalypse

Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

Zak Stein and Daniel Thorson discuss the myriad risks of emerging AI tutoring technologies. AI tutoring is being developed now and will be deployed over the course of the next two to five years, bringing radical changes to our educational systems. This conversation explores the risks of this emerging technology while simultaneously proposing how, if designed correctly, this technology could solve the meta-crisis.

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0:00 - Intro

5:20 - Shift in Awareness of AI

10:08 - GAI Risk

15:51 - AI Alignment & Human Alignment

17:18 - Risks of Generalized Nature of AI

19:08 - Accelerating Misaligned Institutions

20:26 - AI Assistance & Anthropomorphism

25:35 - Instantaneous Media Interfacing

29:48 - AI Tutoring Risk

38:44 - Obsoleting Human Relationship

41:52 - AI Perfecting Propaganda

43:22 - Humanity's Educational Relationship

46:21 - Breaking the Human Nervous System

50:14 - AI Tutoring Risk Continued

55:17 - Building Aligned AI Tutoring Technology

59:56 - Importance of Non-Anthropomorphizable AI

1:02:10 - Irreducibility of Human Goodness

1:04:42 - The Limits of Computationalism

1:07:10 - AI Tutoring Guardrails

1:11:44 - Implementation of AI Tutoring Technology

1:17:36 - AI Planetary Tutoring System

1:21:59 - Solving the Meta-Crisis with AI Planetary Tutoring

1:25:06 - The Emergence of the New Human

1:29:18 - Right Relationship with Emerging AI Technology

1:35:18 - Conclusion

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