Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman (born 15 August 1983) is a Russian-American computer scientist, podcaster, and artificial intelligence researcher. He is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, a podcast and YouTube series.

Lex Fridman in 2018

Quotes

• "I think you have to try to walk in the middle, like, with the empathy and humility. And that's actually what science is about, is the. Is the humility."
  • "Dr. Lex Fridman: Navigating Conflict, Finding Purpose & Maintaining Drive", on Huberman Lab, found on DeepCast (28 November 2022)

• I worry that we humans will discriminate against AI systems that clearly exhibit consciousness. That we will not allow AI systems to have consciousness. We'll come up with theories about measuring consciousness that will say that this is a lesser being. And I worry about that because maybe we humans will create something that is better than us humans in the way that we find beautiful, which is they have a deeper subjective experience of reality. Not only are they smarter, but they feel deeper. And we humans will hate them for it. As human history have shown, they'll be 'the other'. We'll try to suppress it. It will create conflict. It will create war. All of this. I worry about this too.
  • "Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371" (at 2h23m16s), Lex Fridman podcast on YouTube, 13 April 2023.

• I think the best artists aren't doing it for the prize, they aren't doing it for the fame or the money. They're doing it because they love the art.
  • "#435 - Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships" on Lex Fridman Podcast, found on DeepCast (28 June 2024)

• I do think a good conversation requires [a duration of two, three, four, five hours], and I've been thinking a lot about why. I don't think it's just about needing the actual time of three hours to cover all the content. I think the longer form, with a hypothetical skilled conversationalist, relaxes things and allows people to go on tangents and to banter about the details, because I think it's in the details that the beautiful complexity of the person is brough to light.
  • "Donald Trump Interview - Lex Fridman Podcast #442" (at 50m36s), Lex Fridman, 3 September 2024.