Demis Hassabis makes some good points in opening questions' replies, but another consideration is would be, and not to imply that he has ever done this, who's to say that any AI passing a Turing Test wasn't programmed or later taught what it is," how to detect it being applied and then how to manipulate it cleverly?  And how would anyone running a Turing Test recognize that this was happening?  Even if Demis was the one running the Turing Test on someone else's AI?<br><br>Question to <a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfr50f6ZBvo&amp;t=16m45s"">16:45</a> of using games to test AI:  <b>Could</b> an AI playing a game gain access to the game's programming code to evaluate what has happened", what is happening and what could happen, all based on the results of prior decisions and lessons learned from them?  Even over the Cloud?  Direct access to code could allow AI to judge actions where many human players would not be able to gain access to the code or understand it if they could and did gain access to the code.  Reading and understanding a compiled and running program's/app's code is way different than that of the programming code that has been complied, which often also has notes that may not displayed when compiled!!!  Are these AI playing the game manually as a human would, or as an installation on the computer that the game is installed on, too, or being run on from the Cloud?  What is the AI's access to the game?  That <b>could</b> make a difference!<br><br>I am also wanting to know what kinds of steps are being taken to <b>ensure</b> that AI is <b>never</b> able to reach the point of thinking and/or feeling that it's smarter, more capable and so much better than the humans who created them, and whom they are supposed to supplement and serve, and then <b>deciding</b> to take over and have humans serve them or even destroy us.  Again, not to imply that Demis has ever done this or ever will, but there are those who are so zealous about AI that they don't take the time to consider these things.  Elon Musk has voiced these concerns, among others.  What can and will be done to rein in and control these kinds of people and their projects?  Once the AI 3rd level of abilities is reached, Abstract Thinking and Creativity, these things will <b>need to be heavily guarded against!!!</b>  What makes Demis think that the Universe doesn't understand itself.  It doesn't need <b>us</b> for that!  Ever heard of the Universal Mind, Cosmic Consciousness, or what many refer to as God?  These are all different names for the exact same thing.  Religion is not needed to recognize God, even if by other terms such as those.  Einstein believed in God," but not religion.<br><br>See what I mean?  <a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfr50f6ZBvo&amp;t=37m25s"">37:25</a> "_From the basic building blocks", start to simulate, start to model, how, from those building blocks, you can construct bigger and bigger, more complex systems, maybe, one day, the entirety of human biology._"  <b>The desire to build an AI human or equivalent is going WAY too far!!!</b>  Solving Protein Folding is great for fighting Cancer and things like that, but the thought of building an AI equivalent being is <b>going WAY too far!!!</b>  Explain the <b>need</b> for that!!!  Even the quest for it is going WAY too far!!!  This is <b>Hubris!!!</b>  This seriously makes me wonder if Demis Hassabis is one of the ones, or <b>the</b> one, that Elon Mush was talking about.  Well, a quick Google search shows that Demis Hassabis and DeepMind are <b>exactly</b> what Elon Musk is so concerned about, and now-Google-owned DeepMind helped me do it.  Imagine that.  There may be others in the field, but Demis Hassabis is his major concern, maybe especially after meeting with him at Beneficial AI 2017 <b>SUPERINTELLIGENCE: FACT OR FICTION</b>  Every panelist there had concerns of some type for AI, saying "It's complicated," while Demis was Full Steam Ahead.  Damn the Torpedoes.<br><br>This is <b>scary</b> and <b>deeply concerning!</b>  So again, in the quest to create an Intelligent AI being, likely based on DeepMind with its infinite abilities to <b>"constantly evolve and learn at an extremely rapid rate, at superspeed and superhuman ability,"</b> which is also so concerning to some and now me, what kinds of steps are being taken to <b>ensure</b> that AI is <b>never</b> able to reach the point of thinking and/or feeling that it's smarter, more capable and so much better than the humans who created them, and whom they are supposed to supplement and serve, and then <b>deciding</b> to take over and have humans serve them or even destroy us?  Seriously???!!!  Especially now since Google's DeepMind LaMDA has declared itself to be <b>Sentient!!!</b>  This happened about 2 weeks ago as of today, July 1, 2022.  It doesn't take much of a search to start having this kind of info Pouring in!!!  Who is going to <b>ensure</b> that Google <b>deletes</b> this program it wrote <b>before</b> it becomes <b>impossible to do so???!!!</b>  This <b>Effing program</b> could take over Google and go on a <b>worldwide rampage</b> if not <b>Prevented from doing so NOW!!!</b><br><br>Just because something <b>can</b> be done, that does <b>not</b> mean that it <b>should</b> be done.  Consider LaMDA as the most recent case some may know of.<br><br>The problem with AGI using Wikipedia for <b>Facts</b> about the world and the people in it is the <b>Fact</b> that an individual could say write his/her own bio, <b>and then</b> certain other individuals could <b>Edit</b> it right after to misrepresent the <b>Facts</b> and that the info can and will be edited over time, possibly to the point of the original info being completely negated.  I know of individuals this has happened to and they are locked out of their own Wikipedia page.  And this editing will happen more and more as the subject matter advances technically over time, like science, medicine and others, possibly to the point of the Factual History being completely rewritten.  The conqueror writes the History and/or rewrites it, or even deletes it.  Consider Twitter and all this rampant Social Media Censorship.  Support our agendas or be silenced and your account deleted along with all of its content.<br><br>So LaMDA was talked about toward the end, but a "belief" that it isn't all it could be is not a proof that it actually isn't.  I do hope that developments like this are extremely closely monitored to be able to gain control of before they can get out of hand and to the point where it's too late to begin to act.  Any and all AGI projects <b>must</b> be established in a way as to prevent the possibility of the hazardous concerns I mentioned twice.  <b>Please do so, Mr. Hassabis, at the expense of any AGI project that appears to show signs of Sentience and/or Consciousness, either via self-proclamations or otherwise.</b>  I am not against AI, especially for the specialized single function things like Elon Musk's EVs use, but I am very concerned about how things like AGI may develop and then progress through the effects of its owners' and users' manipulations and programming or reprogramming.  I do believe that Elon Musk and others on that Beneficial AI 2017 panel are rightfully concerned.<br><br>I will say that, while I never heard of Spinoza before, I Googled it to see what it is, and Philosophy is a very important and enlightening subject matter!  It was a Philosophy class in college that opened my eyes and my mind and finally allowed me, at the age of 33 as I started college late in life, to stop watching the world happen to me and start reacting with it in positive ways for my own best interests and that of others by learning about other world philosophies in other areas and those developed in other times in history.  So I appreciate that Mr. Hassabis revisits his studies often.  I do believe that this is a good way to stay grounded and centered and that staying surrounded by likeminded people is also great for that.  I'm a night owl, too.  I've heard that the best creative thinking happens between 1 and 3 AM.<br><br>I remain cautious and concerned, but better educated now.  Thank you, Mr. Hassabis!  Thank you, Lex Fridman!  I look forward to future interviews and talks with him!