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
And yet the marketing, the libertarian politics, and the continued social acceptability of technologically driven industries like the one that has produced decision-guidance technology depends on the assumption that tech makes our lives better. That assumption drives the adoption of AI, as it drove the adoption of smartphones and the Internet befor
... See moreJacob Ward • The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
Ideally, the future of humanity is about capturing the upside of emotion while minimizing the downsides. AI is a perfect instrument to help us achieve this balance.
Scott Belsky • Joyspan, Emotional AI Bumpers, Persona Designers, & More Wild Concepts Bound to Become Commonplace Plus Where High-Tech Entertainment Brings Us
The AI control problem is defined as the problem concerned with how to build superintelligence that will aid its creators, and avoid the chances of it deliberately or inadvertently causing harm.
Mo Gawdat • Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
YUDKOWSKY + WOLFRAM ON AI RISK.
youtube.comThe overall risk seems to be minimized by implementing superintelligence, with great care, as soon as possible.
Nick Bostrom • Ethical Issues In Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Generally, though, consider containment more as a set of guardrails, a way to keep humanity in the driver’s seat when a technology risks causing more harm than good. Picture those guardrails operating at different levels and with different modes of implementation. In the next chapter we’ll consider what they might look like at a more granular level
... See moreMustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
If the context of our relationships really matters so much, then it will also matter in our relationships with machine intelligence. Perhaps we should be thinking more carefully about the ecosystem in which we are raising AI, particularly the kind of aggressive, domineering and destructive forms which seem to be proliferating.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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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