That was part of the summary; it wasn’t part of the opinion. While I haven’t read the transcript myself, I just looked and found this quote:
The stakes for autonomous weapons might be big, but are certainly not existential. I think in any reasonable interpretation of autonomous weapons might do really, unless you start thinking about autonomy wired into, like nuclear launch decisions which is basically nuts. And I don’t think it’s really what’s on the table for realistically what people might be worried about.
Without having read the transcript either, this sounds like it’s focused on near-term issues with autonomous weapons, and not meant to be a statement about the longer-term role autonomous weapons systems might play in increasing X-risk.
That was part of the summary; it wasn’t part of the opinion. While I haven’t read the transcript myself, I just looked and found this quote:
Without having read the transcript either, this sounds like it’s focused on near-term issues with autonomous weapons, and not meant to be a statement about the longer-term role autonomous weapons systems might play in increasing X-risk.
Yeah, agreed, but presumably that’s what the entire podcast is about.