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
Well, and it yields a question I’ve thought about a lot as someone who follows the politics of regulation pretty closely. My sense is always that human beings are just really bad at regulating against problems that we haven’t experienced in some big, profound way.
Opinion | The Forecast for 2027? Total A.I. Domination.
“Alignment” between what humans want and what machines do will continue to be a critical, unsolved problem. The system will still not be able to restrict its output to reliably following a shared set of human values around helpfulness, harmlessness, and truthfulness. Examples of concealed bias will be discovered within days or months. Some of its... See more