Why AI might be our next Oppenheimer moment:    • How AI could destroy the world by acc...  

The most famous quote from physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is ‘Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.’ But how close did he come to actually destroying the world?


Correction:
01:13 I say Trinity produced about as much energy as 25 tonnes of TNT, ie 25,000 kg. It was, of course, 25 KILOtonnes TNT equivalent, so 25,000,000 kg. The comparisons in the rest of the video are OK because I did know this, just slipped up while recording! Argh. :) I’ve corrected this in the subtitles.


Sources and further information

If you want a deeper dive into the math of why this is ‘incredibly impossible’, I really enjoyed this quick summary from @WelchLabsVideo    • Oppenheimer's Apocalypse Math  

The hottest known naturally occurring temperatures come from asteroid strikes, a mere few thousand degrees https://gizmodo.com/thehottestknown...
More about the Castle Bravo test https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/...
Castle Bravo’s Wikipedia page is very comprehensive too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_...


Credits

Oppenheimer trailer copyright Universal
Photograph of J. Robert Oppenheimer coutesy of LANL: Unless otherwise indicated, this information has been authored by an employee or employees of the Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. DEAC5206NA25396 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this information. The public may copy and use this information without charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Neither the Government nor LANS makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or responsibility for the use of this information.
The first moments of a nuclear blast are taken from Operation Teapot Tesla, CCBYSA LLNL
Castle Bravo detonation footage via US DoE https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Deepsea videos via NOAA’s Ocean Exploration Video Portal https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/ocea...
Climate model animation via NOAA https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/visualizati...


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