AI safetyism has become so dominant that the obsession with alignment between humans and AI could, by inhibiting accelerated progress in the field, become an existential risk in itself. There’s
AI safetyism has become so dominant that the obsession with alignment between humans and AI could, by inhibiting accelerated progress in the field, become an existential risk in itself. There’s
Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously
Yoshua Bengio • Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously - Yoshua Bengio
OpenAI’s Misaligned Superaligners
> they had undeniably good intentions
> but companies, economies, nations, are built on compromise
> leadership is forced to make those decisions sometimes
Counterfactual
> Jan and Superalignment team were listened to
> 4o release was delayed to 2025
> what would have happened?
> Elevenlabs had professional q... See more
The overall risk seems to be minimized by implementing superintelligence, with great care, as soon as possible.
Nick Bostrom • Ethical Issues In Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Humanity is waking up to the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence, but we don’t yet understand our role. People talk about unexplainable AI when they should be more concerned about the unexplainable humans running the companies that develop the AI. (Hiya, Sam!) People worried about AI taking their jobs and taking control are comp... See more
Esther Dyson • Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids
When you don’t experience reality like most people do, it’s hard to make things that connect with most people.
AI, completely detached from reality, will have a hard time making things that connect with people.
Billy Oppenheimer • The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the assumpt
... See moreTed Chiang • Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
