Shawn Powers

What is the purpose of beginning with AI principles?

The OECD has developed their set of AI principles so that countries can build policy frameworks and legal infrastructure that are coherent with an international standard and with best practices.

good practices of each country can be identified so that governments can understand the lessons their peers have learned and emulate policies that have been effective elsewhere.

he reason grammar nerds and AI skeptics prefer the word confabulation to hallucination is that hallucination means to perceive something that is not actually present, while confabulation means to make something up that is not true, usually in the context of telling a story or having a conversation.

I can imagine a world where the robot plumber is never that much better than the ordinary plumber. In that world, people might rather have the ordinary plumber around for all kinds of very human reasons.

And that could generalize to a number of areas of human life where the advantage of the A.I., while real on some dimensions, is limited in ways tha... See more

Kokotajlo: I do agree that humanity is much better at regulating against problems that have already happened when we learn from harsh experience. Part of why the situation that we’re in is so scary is that for this particular problem, by the time it’s already happened, it’s too late.

Smaller versions of it can happen, though. For example, the stuff ... See more

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.