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Ray Kurzweil Singularity Superintelligence and Immortality On The War in Ukraine

This contemporary interview can be included on the page:

Ray Kurzweil Singularity Superintelligence and Immortality On The War in Ukraine Lex Fridman Podcast 321 September 17, 2022 - 439,132 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykY69lSpDdo&t=2650s

On The War in Ukraine:

53:51

Lex Fridman: So you mentioned nuclear weapons. I'd love to hear your opinion about the 21st century and whether you think we might destroy ourselves and maybe your opinion if it has changed by looking at what's going on in ukraine that we could have a hot war with nuclear powers involved and the tensions building and the seeming forgetting of how terrifying and destructive nuclear weapons are. Do you think humans might destroy ourselves in the 21st century and if we do how do we avoid it?

Ray Kurzweil: I don't think that's going to happen despite the terrors of that war. It is a possibility but it's unlikely. Even with the tensions we've had with this one nuclear power plant that's been taken over. It's very tense but i don't actually see a lot of people worrying that's going to happen. i think we'll avoid that we had two nuclear bombs go off in 1945 so now we're 77 years later. We're doing pretty good we've never had another one go off through anger

Lex Fridman: But people forget people forget the lessons of history.

Ray Kurzweil: I am worried about it i mean that that is definitely a challenge.

Lex Fridman: But you believe that we'll make it out and ultimately super intelligent AI will help us make it out as opposed to destroy us.

Ray Kurzweil: I think so but we do have to be mindful of these dangers and and there are other dangers besides nuclear weapons.

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May1787 (talk) 10:30, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

References

Can someone add to the sources the 2006 version of The Singularity is near that was used? Because currently, the links "Kurzweil 2006" are pointing to nothing, and there seems to be multiple existing versions with different numbers of pages (here and here). Thanks. Alenoach (talk) 16:33, 10 November 2023 (UTC)