The speaker attributes to Eliezer Yudkowsky the belief that sufficient computing power could make a suitable machine-learning system conscious and intelligent, enabling a self-reinforcing increase in power and intelligence that leads to an intelligence explosion and shortly thereafter the end of the world.

“In something like a singularity, he believes that if you just throw enough computing power at a machine learning system of the right type.”

“then it will become conscious,”

“wake up, whatever term you want to use, and then become intelligent and then use that intelligence to increase its own power,”

“which will increase its intelligence further, and this will create a sort of feedback loop and you'll get an intelligence explosion,”

“and then he believes followed shortly by the end of the world.”