Sarah Constantin works at Nanontronics, a company building AI-controlled factories for every manufacturing industry. She has a Math PhD and previously worked on machine learning for drug discovery, ML video analysis for self-driving trucks, and was a data scientist at Palantir.
Timestamps
(0:00:00) Intro
(0:00:22) Ultrasound neuromodulation
(0:02:33) Where is it in the tech lifecycle?
(0:03:48) Why should it be possible?
(0:07:44) How impactful will neuromodulation be?
(0:12:08) Startups working on neuromodulation
(0:16:33) Could we read minds?
(0:18:54) Public acceptance of neuromodulation
(0:27:36) Neuromodulation vs AI
(0:31:55) AI and drug discovery
(0:35:53) AI x-risk
(0:43:34) What would make Sarah worried about AI?
(0:47:00) Is human intelligence simple?
(0:51:01) Probability of solving aging
(0:56:28) Is cancer research doing something avoidably wrong?
(1:05:48) Are aesthetic judgements a kind of moral judgement?
(1:09:44) What should a 14 year old do to understand Sarah’s view of the world?
Links
Sarah's post on ultrasound neuromodulation
Sarah's post "Why I am not an AI Doomer"
Sarah's post "Aesthetic judgements are moral judgements"
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