Let's talk about a failure of intuition that many of us suffer from. It's really a failure to detect a certain kind of danger. I'm gonna describe a scenario that I think is both terrifying and likely to occur, and that's not a good combination as it turns out. And yet, rather than be scared, most of you will feel that what I'm talking about is kind of cool. I'm gonna describe how the gains we make in artificial intelligence could ultimately destroy us. In fact, I think it's very difficult to see how they won't destroy us or inspire us to destroy ourselves. And yet, if you're anything like me, you'll find that it's fun to think about these things, and that response is part of the problem. Okay, that response should worry you. If I were to convince you in this talk that we were likely to suffer a global famine, either because of climate change or some other catastrophe, and that your grandchildren or their grandchildren are very likely to live like this, you wouldn't think "interesting, I like this TED talk." Famine isn't fun. Death by science fiction, on the other hand, is fun. And one of the things that worries me most about the development of AI at this point is that we seem unable to marshal an appropriate emotional response to the dangers that lie ahead. I'm unable to marshal this response, and I'm giving this talk. It's as though we stand before two doors. Behind door number one, we stop making progress in building intelligent machines. Our computer hardware and software just stops getting better for some reason. Now take a moment to consider why this might happen. But given how valuable intelligence and automation are, we will continue to improve our technology...