AI, the Modern Enigma: Nathan's Keynote at IT Revolution's Enterprise AI Summit at Bletchley Park

Hello, and welcome back to the Cognitive Revolution. This is Nathan's AI voice clone. Nathan is traveling, so today we have a special episode. What you're about to hear is a keynote he gave on November second at the Enterprise AI Summit, hosted by IT Revolution at Bletchley Park in England. The talk is called AI, the Modern Enigma. Bletchley is where Alan Turing and his colleagues worked to break Enigma during World War Two. It also hosted the first AI Safety Summit in twenty twenty-three. Then, the challenge was reading a machine's messages. Now, it's understanding the machines themselves. If you listen to this show regularly, you know Nathan is an enthusiastic user of AI. You'll hear some of the personal reasons for that. You'll also hear why his experience with these systems has left him increasingly concerned about where we're headed. The question running through the talk is one that comes up a lot on this show. How do we get the enormous benefits of AI while keeping the ability to understand, supervise, and, when necessary, intervene? Nathan also explains why he's now starting to advocate for a pause on frontier-scale training. Early in the talk, Nathan hands the stage to an AI version of himself, made with Google's latest text to speech model. So, yes, you're hearing an AI clone introduce a talk that includes an AI clone. The actual Nathan does most of the talking. This is a conference recording, so expect room audio. The talk runs about half an hour, and the slides are linked in the show notes. Thanks to Gene Kim and Ben Grinnell at IT Revolution for having Nathan, and for letting us share the talk here as an episode. We'll start with Gene's introduction. Here's Nathan, live at Bletchley Park.

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