We can and should strive to ensure that AIs aren’t overly stupid or cruel, but the premise that we can build machines that don’t just operate efficiently but provide answers that please our ever-changing opinions about bias and truth is a fool’s errand.
Continue readingExistential AI Risk Is Right Now
The ultimate AI risk isn’t it fails, but rather that it succeeds and then we’re shocked by the world it gives us.
Continue readingWhy Does AI Need A Hall Monitor?
I think we have unfairly low expectations for the moral capacity of AI engineers.
Continue readingHello AI, Nice To Meet Me
How will you feel when an AI can convince everyone you know that it’s you? That day isn’t far off, if it hasn’t already arrived somewhere.
Continue readingIs It AI’s ‘Oppenheimer Moment?’
History suggests we’re truly doomed, because most of the bad things that have happened in the world were intentional.
Continue readingThe White House Is Part of AI Risk
The latest news from the White House only goes to show that it doesn’t understand AI risk. And that’s part of the risk.
Continue readingAIs Learning From Other AIs
AIs will increasingly make normative judgments about what things mean, relying more and more on what other AIs have concluded and using opaque code. What could possibly go wrong?
Continue readingAI Is Harvesting Our Humanity
Generative AI is able to mimic how we think and communicate because we make it possible for it to analyze how we think and communicate.
Continue readingWe’re Clueless About AI
To say that most people are conflicted about AI would be an understatement. It’s on purpose.
Continue readingSo Much For Slowing Down
What about concerns about deepfakes, election manipulation, privacy, massive economic or social upheaval, and even the existential threat of AI?
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