Recently (2 Nov), The Guardian posted what I thought was an extremely well-made video with Ilya's thoughts. I didn't think to repost it at the time but given the OpenAI developments over the last couple of days, and the complete Twitter and media meltdown surrounding that, I thought this video gives a strong vibey insight into Ilya's thoughts on AGI and safety and it's a useful reference point for how general public may perceive Ilya (had 221k views thus far).

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Transcript (bold highlights mine):

Now AI is a great thing, because AI will solve all the problems that we have today.
It will solve employment, it will solve disease, it will solve poverty, but it will also create new problems.

The problem of fake news is going to be a million times worse, cyber attacks will become much more extreme, we will have totally automated AI weapons. I think AI has the potential to create infinitely stable dictatorships. This morning a warning about the power of artificial intelligence, more than 1,300 tech industry leaders, researchers and others are now asking for a pause in the development of artificial intelligence to consider the risks.

Playing God, scientists have been accused of playing God for a while, but there is a real sense in which we are creating something very different from anything we've created so far. Yeah, I mean, we definitely will be able to create completely autonomous beings with their own goals.

And it will be very important, especially as these beings become much smarter than humans, it's going to be important to have these beings, the goals of these beings be aligned with our goals.

What inspires me? I like thinking about the very fundamentals, the basics. What can our systems not do, that humans definitely do? Almost approach it philosophically.
Questions like, what is learning?
What is experience?
What is thinking?
How does the brain work?

I feel that technology is a force of nature. I feel like there is a lot of similarity between technology and biological evolution. It is very easy to understand how biological evolution works, you have mutations, you have natural selections.

You keep the good ones, the ones that survive and just through this process you are going to have huge complexity in your organisms. We cannot understand how the human body works because we understand evolution, but we understand the process more or less. And...

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