
A Potential Path to Safer AI Development

Artificial general intelligence would be a major turning point in the relationship between humans and machines—what many predict would be the most significant single event in the history of the human race. It’s a milestone that I believe we should not cross unless we have first definitively solved all problems of control and safety. But given the r
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Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously
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Some people within the field seem finally to be recognizing these points. University of Montreal professor Yoshua Bengio, one of the pioneers of deep learning, recently acknowledged that “deep [neural networks] tend to learn surface statistical regularities in the dataset rather than higher-level abstract concepts.” In an interview near the end of
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