Six Thoughts on AI Safety

I make all these points to emphasize that I disagree with the notion of AI misalignment (and thus existential risk from AI) being inevitable, or even probable, from first principles. But I agree that a lot of very weird and unpredictable things can go wrong, and therefore AI misalignment is a real risk with a measurable probability of happening,... See more

The winning strategies over the next decade will not be those that maximize short-term AI deployment. They will be those that build and maintain access to high-quality information flows—genuine human expertise, carefully curated training corpora, institutional knowledge that has not been corrupted by synthetic recursion.