ESRogs comments on Help us name a short primer on AI risk! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 September 2013 12:19:40AM 5 points [-]

I strongly advocate eliminating the word 'risk' from the title. I have never spoken of 'AI risk'.

It is a defensive word and in a future-of-technology context it communicates to people that you are about to talk about possible threats that no amount of argument will talk you out of. Only people who like the 'risk' dogwhistle will read, and they probably won't like the content.

  • What We Can Know About Powerful Artificial Intelligence
  • Powerful Artificial Intelligence: Why Its Friendliness or Hostility is Knowably Design-Dependent
  • Foreseeable Difficulties of Having AI Be A Good Thing
  • Friendly AI: Possible But Difficult
Comment author: ESRogs 20 September 2013 12:39:10AM 4 points [-]

I notice that I am confused.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 September 2013 01:31:55AM 4 points [-]

"AI as a positive and negative factor in global risk", in a book called "Global Catastrophic Risks". The phrase 'AI risk' does not appear in the text. If I'd known then what I know now, I would have left the word 'risk' out of the title entirely.

Comment author: ESRogs 20 September 2013 10:23:16AM 2 points [-]

Confusion cleared :)

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