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
Social problems and political problems—like the problems created by tech companies themselves—are dismissed as irrelevant or unimportant when compared to more urgent problems, like avoiding the creation of an improperly aligned AI or the plight of the hypothetical unborn quadrillions of humans that could live on the other side of the cosmos a billi
... See moreAdam Becker • More Everything Forever
Will artificial intelligence develop in ways that benefit and protect humanity, or will machines develop intentions of their own and become a threat to humans?
Walter Isaacson • Elon Musk
So, as negative impacts become clear, we must use these choke points to create sensible rate-limiting factors, checks on the speed of development, to better ensure that good sense is implemented as fast as the science evolves.