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 readingNews Corp Says Out Loud The Silent Part About AI
We need better understanding of the context of AI and digital transformation. News Corp has raised its hand and asked us to witness its success in thrilling its investors.
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 readingEnough With The AI Euphemisms
Much of the talk about AI includes one or more euphemisms that substitute pleasant or unthreatening definitions for more truthful and scary qualities.
Continue readingWill Unplugged AI Go To Heaven?
Maybe the question isn’t whether or not AI could have an afterlife, or whether it’s alive in any sense that science could repeatedly verify.
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?
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